Michael J. Spillane Jr., 60, allegedly punched the stranger in the face outside Mediterranean wine bar Kashkaval Garden at around 7:37 p.m. on Feb. 21, according to a criminal complaint.

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 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.

Friends of the popular crime writer Mickey Spillane noted that Spillane could pile the tall tales pretty high when talking about his own life, a character trait they acknowledged with fondness.

I read "I, the Jury" when I was a preteen and was much taken with the bold crime novel, especially the shocking ending. Those early Mickey Spillane novels left an indelible impression on this ...

In my early teens I raced through all the Spillane paperbacks I could unearth, so I quickly devoured “Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction” (Mysterious Press), by Max Allan Collins and James L. Traylor.

Hammer also has been portrayed on screen numerous times, perhaps most memorably in the 1955 film "Kiss Me Deadly" starring Ralph Meeker and, from 1984 to 1987, the CBS series "Mickey Spillane's ...

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.

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 ...

Skydance has acquired rights to Mickey Spillane’s and Max Allan Collins’ Mike Hammer franchise with plans to develop and produce the bestselling book series as a feature film based on the ...