Quirt was created by Archie Goodwin and George Tuska in 1972 and first appeared in Hero For Hire # 1.
Billy Bob Rackham and William Quirt were two racist correctional officers who routinely taunted and beat Luke Cage. When Warden Tyler Stuart came to the facility and learned of the guards’ brutality, Quirt was fired and left in a solitary cell with Cage as punishment.