Nick Carper and the Evaporating Arsonist - Episode 25

Dime novel detective Nick Carper gets help from Falk on a flaming hot case. What’s the secret to Nick’s perpetual youth? Who’s gonna pay for that door? What’s this stuff? Did you try it? Listen to find out!

Nick Carper and the Evaporating Arsonist, episode 25 of This Gun in My Hand, was written, recorded and edited by Rob Northrup. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, information on how to subscribe, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. Where’s that smoke coming from? This Gun in My Hand!

This episode is also available on Youtube, and in audio formats other than mp3 on archive.org.

Show Notes:
1. The first story about Nick Carter was published September 18, 1886 in New York Weekly, so you’d think a 135-year-old character would be in the public domain. But the name is still trademarked, which is why I had to f***ing re-record it as “Nick Carper” throughout this episode. Here’s more info if you’ve never heard of the subject of this parody, the evolving character Nick Carter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Carter_(literary_character)

You can download hundreds of dime novels and pulps free from archive.org or Northern Illinois University: https://dimenovels.lib.niu.edu/ 

2. Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy was a real radio show that ran from 1933-1951. When Hanna-Barbera couldn’t or wouldn’t secure rights to create a Jack Armstrong cartoon in the 1960s, they filed off the serial numbers and called it “Jonny Quest.”

3. After his studio closed in 1936, animator Ub Iwerks did contract work for Leon Schlesinger Productions and Columbia Pictures’ cartoon division, according to his entry on Wikipedia.

4. The clicking sound in the Life commercial was, indeed, a Ruger 1911 pistol cocking, used to represent the sound of a pistol tapped on a tabletop.

Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Music from just before the Life commercial: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 - Sing While we Trip it Upon the Green (For Recorders - Papalin)
By Papalin
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://musopen.org/music/11140-the-fairy-queen-z629/

Sound effect title: Gun Fire
By GoodSoundForYou
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/1998-Gun-Fire.html

Sound effect title: 38 Caliber Gun Shot 5x
Recorded by Mike Koenig
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
http://soundbible.com/375-38-Caliber-Gun-Shot-5x.html

Title: Real Colt 45 M1911 (shot)
By Carmelomike
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Carmelomike/sounds/255216/

Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/

Title: Footsteps Dress Shoes Wood Floor.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/allrealsound/sounds/161756/

Sound Effect Title: Kicking/Forcing/Breaking Wooden Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/160213/

Sound Effect Title: Wood Break.boaay
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/BOAAY/sounds/520720/

Sound Effect Title: R28-47-Man and Woman Screaming.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/482833/

Sound Effect Title: Impacts_Splatter_Watermelon_001.wav
By duckduckpony
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/duckduckpony/sounds/204024/

Sound Effect Title: Pumpmkin Guts Squish 1.aif [sic]
By MWLANDI
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/MWLANDI/sounds/85862/

Sound Effect Title: 1911 Pistol Cocking
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/J.Anthracite/sounds/465488/

The image associated with this episode is a modified detail of the cover of Nick Carter Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2 (April 1933). Public Domain. Art by Jerome George Rozen?