Nick Carter (real name - John R. Cornell) is the creator of the most popular hero of the same name Nick Carter, who is practically unknown to Russian readers. Nick, a hero amazing in his activity and ingenuity, has become a favorite of millions of readers not only in the USA, but also in all over the world. Multi-million circulations and more than 1,200 comics created and triumphantly marching across the Western pages are the best proof of this. If you love the dynamic, adventure detective genre, Nick Carter is for you. Nick Carter was destined to have the longest life among all fictional private detectives. The first series of Nick Carter stories appeared in September 1886 in the New York Weekly. Since then, the forever young detective continued to appear in books, magazines, comics, and, for twelve years, radio programs, remaining a favorite of the American public for almost seventy years. After a short break, in 1964 Nick. Carter has been resurrected as a modern-day Secret Service agent in a series of novels that has spanned over a hundred titles. From the start, Nick Carter is a handsome, smart young man, small in stature but highly trained. He is determined, brave, straightforward and dedicated to his work. Nothing can shake his faith in justice and his patriotism. He conducts investigations skillfully and professionally, and is especially knowledgeable in forensic medicine. His specialty is the art of impersonation: he can act as a Chinese, a dandy, an old woman, a young black and a capitalist. Carter's character was sketched from scratch by Ormond J. Smith (1860–1933); his cousin, John R. Cornell (1848–1924), brought Nick Carter into flesh and blood and wrote the first three serials about the exploits of the New York detective. Then Frederick Van Day (1861–1922), the most prolific of the Nick Carter writers, took over. And at least a dozen other authors wrote about him. Carter was the first of the American literary detectives to appear on the silver screen. In silent films he was played by Andre Liabelle, Thomas Carrigan and Edmund Lowe, in sound films by Walter Pidgeon.