The Many Faces of Nick Carter

Many of you know that I worked for Bank of America while attending ASU. As a teller, I would engage in friendly conversation with our regular customers. I was constantly subjected to questions regarding the other 2/3 of my name triplet / trifecta:

1. The boy...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Carter_(singer)

2. The 19th century master detective and adventurer...

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/carter.html

He first appeared as a 19th century detective and adventurer, in Street and Smith's New York Weekly dime novel, on September 18, 1886. He was young, strong, dedicated to clean living (no cigarettes! no booze!) confident, a master of disguise, and possessor of a keen mind, filled with more trivia than anyone would ever need to know (except, of course, for dime novel master sleuths!) and was usually accompanied by his loyal (and manly) partners-in-arms Patsy and Scrubby. He appeared in three stories written by Coryell, and then, literally thousands more in various Street & Smith publications, mostly written by Frederic van Rensselaer Day (1862-1922).