As a stopgap till Mickey started writing again, his paperback publisher, Signet, published a Spillane-influenced series of British spy novels, presenting “the English Mike Hammer,” James Bond.

Mickey Spillane died at the age of 88. He was the creator of Mike Hammer, the tough-talking private eye of pulp novels and noir films — a vigilante with a restless trigger finger.

Mickey Spillane News from United Press International.Wiki Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels, many ...

Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer is actually based on a story by Spillane himself, “The Night I Died,” originally written in the 1950s as an unproduced screenplay.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Mickey Spillane liked to say he was a writer, not an author. That was his way of describing his occupation – not as art, but as a skilled, blue-collar line of work. A ...

The Spillane home looks out on the inlet Mickey discovered while flying over the area during World War II. He bought his first waterfront house on an acre for $13,000, Jane said, but they had to ...

Byline: Mickey Spillane, edited by Max Allan Collins and Lynn F. Myers Jr., offers a wealth of rare Spillane material: two Mike Hammer cases in short story form that later appeared as novels, the ...

The son of murdered Irish mobster Mickey Spillane tumbled out the window of his sixth-floor apartment in a fatal fall Saturday, police and his uncle said. Robert "Bobby" Spillane, an actor who had ...

Skydance Acquires Rights to Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer Franchise Currently there are no writers, directors or talent attached to the project Umberto Gonzalez August 2, 2023 @ 5:32 PM ...

Mickey Spillane was gunned down in 1977 when Bobby was just 12 years old. In a heart-rending piece he penned for the Daily News in 2002, Bobby Spillane described what it was like to grow up as the ...

Frank Morrison "Mickey" Spillane died Monday, at age 88, in his South Carolina beach house. No bullet to the gut. No whiskey and arsenic. Just a fast fight to the finish with pancreatic cancer.