Nick Knatterton (full name: Nikolaus Kuno Freiherr von Knatter, which means something like Nikolaus Kuno Baron of Knatter) is a German comic strip character, drawn by Manfred Schmidt (1913–1999) from 1950 to 1959. The name is alluding to Nick Carter and Nat Pinkerton. He was born in Kyritz (also called "Kyritz an der Knatter") to Casimir Kuno von Knatter and Corinna Pimpsberg.
Knatterton is a private detective. He always dresses in a Sherlock Holmes-style green plaid overcoat and cap, and smokes a pipe.
The visual style of the comics is cartoony, but still realistic enough for the comic to be taken as a (at least mostly) serious detective comic.
Although Knatterton's adventures are serious and count as real detective stories, the comic is characterised by its unique style of humour, most of which derives from allusions to current political affairs in the Federal Republic of Germany of the 1950s.
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