Ted's Polish-Mexican Page: Mickey Spillane

20 lipca 2006

Mickey Spillane

My brother noted that I said nothing about the death of Mickey Spillane. Well, he should get his own blog.

Tom would probably want me to note that before he wrote his breakthrough, I, the Jury, he wrote for Timely Comics (the company that later became Marvel). The most famous character he worked on was the Human Torch.

After serving in the Army Air Force, he returned to civilian life and comic books, writing a character called Mike Danger. The character was a bust, so he wrote him into a novel, which sold poorly in hard cover. But, he got a publisher to sell the book as paperback only, and the legend of Mike Hammer was born.

Spillane's Mike Hammer was the first two-fisted-take-no-prisoners-play-by-his-own-rules detective (thus the title of his first novel). This means that every bad cop buddy movie and silly shows like Renegade, Hunter and T. J. Hooker can be laid at his feet. Don't hold this against the man though.

Hasta la proxima. Do zobaczenia.

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Comments:

That would be like holding the myth of the rags to riches which has caused so much harm to Americans against Horatio Alger...wait I do hold it against him.

Umm...Then that would be like holding the emergence of really bad sci fi tv shows like Sliders or Stargate against Ray Bradbury or Isaac Asimov.

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