To celebrate the centenary year of Mickey Spillane, Titan Comics is
excited to announce Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, a brand-new Hard Case Crime
comic book series, based on a story originally written by Mickey Spillane and adapted
by Max Allan Collins (Road To Perdition, Quarry’s War) – coming in June 2018.
Following his debut novel, I, The Jury in 1947, Mickey Spillane became
one of the best-selling novelists of all-time, with more than 225 million
copies of his books sold internationally. Famed, yet controversial for the depictions
of sex and violence in his novels, Spillane created Mike Hammer, one of the
most famous of all fictional detectives, and even starred as Hammer in one of
the many movies made from his books.
Mickey Spillane's tough-talking, brawling, skirt-chasing private
detective Mike Hammer returns to comics in Titan’s new Mickey Spillane’s Mike
Hammer series. When a chance encounter with a captivating femme fatale leads to
a violent mob retaliation, hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer finds himself
dodging both bullets and broads as he undertakes the most dangerous case of his
career.
Entitled “The Night I Died,” Titan’s new comic series is based on an
un-produced 1950s Spillane screenplay. Now, with this new comic book
series, readers can experience an authentic yet brand-new take on the
bestselling writer's much-loved detective – written by Collins with art by
rising star Marcelo Salaza and colorist Marcio Freire.
“Spillane’s contributions to the genre are without parallel,” said
Titan Comics editor Tom Williams. “What better addition to the Hard Case Crime
comics family than his signature character, Mike Hammer? Mickey Spillane’s Mike
Hammer is sure to become a hard-boiled classic.”
Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer is part of Titan Publishing’s wider
year-long celebration of Spillane’s work and legacy which includes the Titan
Books and Hard Case Crime publication of Killing Town, the very first Mike Hammer novel, begun by
Spillane around 1945 and recently completed by Collins. Killing Town had been
set aside by Spillane to write his and Hammer’s famous 1947 debut, I, The Jury;
and The Last Stand -- Spillane’s never-before-published final novel -- was completed
by Spillane just before his death in 2006.
"I am
thrilled to join Marcelo and Marcio in bringing
Mickey Spillane to the comic book form -- particularly since Mickey
was a top Golden Age comic book writer himself,” said series writer Max Allan
Collins. “His Mike Hammer -- probably the most
influential private eye of all -- was initially created with comics in mind.
"
“It’s a privilege to work with Max Allan Collins, Mickey’s
hand-picked successor and fellow Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, to
celebrate the Spillane Centenary,” said Hard Case Crime editor Charles Ardai,
“No one could be a better choice to shepherd Mickey’s legendary detective, Mike
Hammer, onto the comic book page than the author behind Road to Perdition, Dick
Tracy, Wild Dog and Ms. Tree.”
Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer is part of Titan’s new Hard Case Crime
comics imprint, which has seen recent publications including Quarry’s War written
by novel series creator Max Allan Collins, Triggerman by visionary
director Walter Hill (The Warriors), Peepland, by crime author Christa
Faust and Gary Phillips, a new adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With
The Dragon Tattoo – Millennium, Normandy Gold by crime authors Megan
Abbott and Alison Gaylin, and Babylon Berlin – a graphic novel adaptation
of the book that inspired the new TV show currently showing on Netflix.
Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer Issue #1 is available to order from the
April edition of Diamond Previews.
Look out for more exciting announcements from Titan Comics and Hard
Case Crime soon.
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