Mystery writer Max Allan Collins is best known for comics and graphic novels, including the Road to Perdition series. He has also finished and published 15 of Mickey Spillane’s incomplete Mike ...

Is Mickey Spillane now a neglected author? In the early 1950s, his immensely popular novels about private eye Mike Hammer were called sadistic and pornographic revenge fantasies, fever dreams of ...

In my youth, my dad was captivated by crime novels — the pulp fiction variety — involving an array of private eyes. Chief among his favorites was Mike Hammer, the creation of Mickey Spillane.

Mickey Spillane was unabashedly conservative and unpretentious. Despite the terrible reviews he received during his life, he sold millions of copies of his books.

Life is indeed a flat circle, as Matthew McConaughey and Nic Pizzolatto are reteaming for a new film, after HBO's True ...

In the book series that kicked off with Spillane’s I, the Jury, Mike Hammer is a private investigator who plays by his own ...

books and graphic novels authored by Mickey Spillane as well as those co-authored by Spillane and his friend the best-selling author Collins, who wrote Road to Perdition. The Mike Hammer novel ...

Skydance acquired the rights to the many books by Spillane and Collins with the plans to develop and produce the book series ...

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. In 13 paperback novels ...

In my last On Crime column, I interviewed Max Allan Collins, the co-author of “Spillane: The King of Pulp Fiction,” a fine biography of the late crime writer Mickey Spillane. Spillane ...