Mickey Spillane takes the big dirt nap

[StoneGold]

A pioneer in crime fiction with Mike Hammer. And he used to write Sub-Mariner and Batman. Finally 86'd at 87.

[Jared]

Heh that thread title really is appropriate for him. And at 87, the man had a good run.

[Ontir]

I hope his head-stone has something suitably hard-boiled!

[rick]

Tonight, each and every one of us is morally obligated to drink Boilermakers until we're ready to puke, and then go and kick the ass of the biggest, meanest, nastiest piece of ugly in the place.

[StoneGold]

Heh that thread title really is appropriate for him. And at 87, the man had a good run.
Goddamn right. Didn't want anyone going all soft, "Oh, it's a tragedy he died so young!" Not for Spillane.

[Albert]

"Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics." -- Mickey Spillane

I had no idea Spillane had done comics work, Mike Danger aside.

RIP you tough old coot.

[StoneGold]

Wait a sec, TV? Dude, OK, Spillane got in the movies, but he was an author! And of comic books no less!

[CaptainAwesome]

I just watched Kiss Me Deadly in honor of Spillane. Great movie, especially with the restored ending.

[Albert]

Wait a sec, TV? Dude, OK, Spillane got in the movies, but he was an author! And of comic books no less!

I'm not sure I'd call him a Rennaisance man, but Spillane appeared in many different mediums. According to his biography, he also acted:


Spillane occasionally acted in movies. He had a chance to play himself as a detective in Ring of Fear in 1954. It was directed by screenwriter, James Edward Grant.

In the 1963 production The Girl Hunters, Spillane played his creation, Mike Hammer (one of the only occasions in film history in which an author of a popular literary hero has portrayed his own character). It also starred Bond girl Shirley Eaton and actor Lloyd Nolan. He also appeared as a writer who is murdered in the TV series Columbo.

Spillane also appeared in a series of beer commercials which parodied his tough-guy image.

Here's the link to the biography I found. Fascinating stuff. And to add my amen to the choir, Kiss Me Deadly is one of my all time favorite films.

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/m/mi/mickey_spillane.html

[StoneGold]

I'm not sure I'd call him a Rennaisance man, but Spillane appeared in many different mediums. According to his biography, he also acted:



Here's the link to the biography I found. Fascinating stuff. And to add my amen to the choir, Kiss Me Deadly is one of my all time favorite films.

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/m/mi/mickey_spillane.html
I was just ticked the thread got booted off of Comm. Seems to me Spillane was much more influential to the geek genre as a whole, rather than just TV/Film. Especially when he's best known for the written word.

[Albert]

I was just ticked the thread got booted off of Comm. Seems to me Spillane was much more influential to the geek genre as a whole, rather than just TV/Film. Especially when he's best known for the written word.

Okay, that explains the TV reference.. I was baffled, but that explains why. And I agree with you... there is already a thread up in Books, but yeah, he's such an icon that I see no reason why the thread couldn't have stayed in Comm either.

[Buzz Dixon]

In more ways than one, he was a human cannonball.

[davids]

Did a damn fine job too, even if it was set in new york and was shot in London. Finish off two commie spys while searching for Velma.

Even nailed one's hand to the floor to make sure he be there went the Feds arived. The other a sexy lady comie agent, he filled a shot gun with Mud so when she tried to kill him with it.....Blew her own head off!

he also wrote the human torch, captain america and his own comic book inventi9n Mike Danger!:evilsmile