And James Lincoln Warren of Los Angeles wrote, ‘Identifying author Mickey Spillane, the creator of Mike Hammer, as a notorious New York mobster is like calling James Joyce a famous Irish ...

Robert Brooks and Mickey Spillane, suppliers of fantasies to American males, ... When his beer came, in a cold, wet pitcher, he and his mystery companion drank a toast to Bob Brooks.

Mickey didn’t write much between 1952 and 1960, just some novellas and film scripts. In the early ‘50s, to meet the demand for the sexy, hard-hitting style of fiction he created, Spillane’s ...

Matthew McConaughey to Reunite With ‘True Detective’ Creator Nic Pizzolatto for ‘Mike Hammer’ Movie. Pizzolatto penned the script based on the character created by author Mickey Spillane.

Macho mystery writer Mickey Spillane, whose gritty gumshoe, Mike Hammer, was the sexy, violent Cold War icon of the genre – spawning books, movies and a TV series – has died at his Sout… ...

Mickey Spillane was 1950s pulp fiction. His vicious, violent detective Mike Hammer was the dark side of those detectives-with-honour Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade.

Hammer stories were also featured on TV in the series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, while Spillane himself played Hammer in the 1963 film The Girl Hunters. He also appeared in a 1974 episode of the ...

Mickey Spillane, in the role of his creation Mike Hammer, on the set of “The Girl Hunters” (1963) with co-star Shirley Eaton. Photo: Popperfoto via Getty Images.