Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The son of notorious Manhattan mobster Mickey Spillane landed in court Monday for allegedly taking a whack at a dog-walker in Hell ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This cover image released by Mysterious Press shows “Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction” by Max Allan Collins and James L. Traylor ...

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired the feature film rights to the Mickey Spillane series of mystery novels featuring private investigator Mike Hammer. The deal is a co-production between Film 360 and ...

They got abandoned, slapped around, and drowned. They got strung up, whipped, knifed, and/or shot. Women had it rough in Mickey Spillane novels, which led to predictable charges of misogyny, but those ...

In many ways, Mickey Spillane’s influential purple prose marked the apex of the startling violence and tawdry milieus of post-war American detective and crime stories. That’s partly because Spillane, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Skydance has acquired rights to Mickey Spillane's and Max Allan Collins' Mike Hammer franchise with plans to develop and produce ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The rights to Mickey Spillane’s and Max Allan Collins’ “Mike Hammer” franchise have been acquired by Skydance, an insider with ...

The iconic private eye will debut in a four-issue series adapted from a story by the late crime writer himself. By Graeme McMillan The 100th anniversary in 2018 of the birth of Frank Morrison Spillane ...

I was a 24-year-old graduate student at Bowling Green State University in Ohio in the fall of ’75, working toward my master’s degree in popular culture, when I had my epiphany: the subject of my ...

The late Mickey Spillane wrote mysteries that practically created the American paperback industry — more than 225 million copies of his books have been sold since he was first published in 1947.

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Mickey Spillane, the macho mystery writer who wowed millions of readers with the shoot-'em-up sex and violence of gumshoe Mike Hammer, died Tuesday. He was 88. Spillane's death was ...