This week, it's a murder mystery starring a then-popular multi-media detective involving an accused doctor!
(Note the banner across the bottom of pages #2 & 3, which faced each other in the comic, promoting the Nick Carter radio series!)
This never-reprinted story from S&S's Shadow Comics V8N9 (1948) was illustrated (and likely written) by Golden and Silver Age comic creator Bob Powell,
Beginning in 1886, he appeared as a scientific adventurer, then a private detective in dime novels, pulp magazines, and comic books, until the early 1950s.
Beginning in 1886, he appeared as a scientific adventurer, then a private detective in dime novels, pulp magazines, and comic books, until the early 1950s.
After being dormant for a decade, he was rebooted as a government assassin/secret agent known as KillMaster in a paperback series from the 1960s to the late 1990s.
From the 1930s to the 1950s, he starred in a long-running radio series, two movie serials. several dozen b-movies, and a tv movie/pilot.
(Trivia: Though he never had his own American comic book, Nick had several different series, featuring locally-produced stories in France Germany, and Italy!)
Nick's adopted son, Chick Carter also had a comic strip, radio show, and movie serial, but didn't continue after the 1950s.
