The creators were Guido De Maria, as director and writer, and Franco Bonvicini ("Bonvi"), as co-writer and artist.
[1] The first run comprised 11 stories, later reissued, as print comic strips for Il Corriere dei Ragazzi, and then in numerous other magazines and books.
The Nick Carter episodes number some 80, including those created for TV and later adapted for comic-strip magazines.
Several stories were drawn by Silver (Guido Silvestri) and Clod (Claudio Onesti).
Nick Carter stories feature a great number of parodies of famous themes and characters of literature, film, TV and history.