TIL that the first "hardboiled detective" to have his own series was Race Williams (created by author Carroll John Daly), and the first story he appeared in was "Knights of the Open Palm", an anti-Ku Klux Klan story, published June 1, 1923.
So that's cool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_John_Daly#cite_note-ls-1
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