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Latiago (1979-83) Western comic strip by Stan Lynde. Cole Cantrell, nicknamed "Latigo" (after a saddle part) was a veteran of the Union army. He was raised among Crow Indians, where his name was the Crow equivalent of Two Trails. #popculture #comicstrips
An American Tragedy (1925) Dreiser's novel about crime and the moral weakness was inspired by a 1906 incident: Chester E. Gillette, was convicted of drowning a pregnant girl & later executed. #popculture
Daredevil (Bart Hill) debuted in Silver Streak #6 (1940). As a child, he was rendered mute by the shock of seeing his father murdered & himself being branded with a hot iron. He grew up to become a boomerang marksman & had boomerang-shaped scar on his chest.