Rin Tin Can appeared in 1960 in the pages of Sur la Piste des Daltons (On the Daltons’ Trail). His original name, Ran-Tan-Plan, was already a reference to Rin-Tin-Tin, the canine star of both TV series and films born in 1954 in the United States. But the concept behind him was quite different: to show in the comics series a dog as dumb as Rin-Tin-Tin could be smart on screen!