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  1. "Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn’t. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still… you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt."

    ~ Mickey Spillane, born today, 1918.

    #MickeySpillane #Quote #Today

  2. Before finding success as a writer, Mickey Spillane worked as a lifeguard and also as a trampoline artist and a human cannonball. He also worked briefly for the FBI, working undercover to crack a narcotics ring. 10 facts about him on his birthday.

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/

    #BirthAnniversary #MickeySpillane #Writers

  3. A quotation from Mickey Spillane

    The critics panned Spillane, but he didn’t care. He said, “Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.” He said he never had a character who drank cognac or had a mustache, because he didn’t know how to spell those words. He said, “I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.”

    Mickey Spillane (1918-2006) American crime novelist [Frank Morrison Spillane]
    In Garrison Keillor, post (2012-03-09), Writers Almanac, American Public Media

    More info about this quote: wist.info/spillane-mickey/7982…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mickeyspillane #business #commerce #customers #sales #success #writing

  4. Had it not been for the Production Code I, the Jury (1953) would have been the best-ever Mickey Spillane film adaptation. It's still pretty good - Peggie Castle sizzles, John Alton’s cinematography is superb. See it.

    My review: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

    #MickeySpillane #MikeHammer #JohnAlton #PeggieCastle #50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #filmnoir

  5. Had it not been for the Production Code I, the Jury (1953) would have been the best-ever Mickey Spillane film adaptation. It's still pretty good - Peggie Castle sizzles, John Alton’s cinematography is superb. See it.

    My review: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

    #MickeySpillane #MikeHammer #JohnAlton #PeggieCastle #50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #filmnoir

  6. Had it not been for the Production Code I, the Jury (1953) would have been the best-ever Mickey Spillane film adaptation. It's still pretty good - Peggie Castle sizzles, John Alton’s cinematography is superb. See it.

    My review: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

    #MickeySpillane #MikeHammer #JohnAlton #PeggieCastle #50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #filmnoir

  7. Had it not been for the Production Code I, the Jury (1953) would have been the best-ever Mickey Spillane film adaptation. It's still pretty good - Peggie Castle sizzles, John Alton’s cinematography is superb. See it.

    My review: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

    #MickeySpillane #MikeHammer #JohnAlton #PeggieCastle #50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #filmnoir

  8. Had it not been for the Production Code I, the Jury (1953) would have been the best-ever Mickey Spillane film adaptation. It's still pretty good - Peggie Castle sizzles, John Alton’s cinematography is superb. See it.

    My review: dfordoom-movieramblings.blogsp

    #MickeySpillane #MikeHammer #JohnAlton #PeggieCastle #50smovie #50smovies #1950smovie #1950smovies #filmnoir

  9. Mickey Spillane was definitely in the groove when he wrote the fifth Mike Hammer book The Big Kill in 1951. As so often it’s Hammer’s sensitive side that drives him on - it drives him even when he’s blowing away hoodlums with his .45.

    My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

    #vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #hardboiledcrime hardboiledfiction #hardboiled #pulpfiction #MickeySpillane #MikeHammer

  10. Mickey Spillane was definitely in the groove when he wrote the fifth Mike Hammer book The Big Kill in 1951. As so often it’s Hammer’s sensitive side that drives him on - it drives him even when he’s blowing away hoodlums with his .45.

    My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

    #vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #hardboiledcrime hardboiledfiction #hardboiled #pulpfiction #MickeySpillane #MikeHammer

  11. Mickey Spillane was definitely in the groove when he wrote the fifth Mike Hammer book The Big Kill in 1951. As so often it’s Hammer’s sensitive side that drives him on - it drives him even when he’s blowing away hoodlums with his .45.

    My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

    #vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #hardboiledcrime hardboiledfiction #hardboiled #pulpfiction #MickeySpillane #MikeHammer

  12. Mickey Spillane was definitely in the groove when he wrote the fifth Mike Hammer book The Big Kill in 1951. As so often it’s Hammer’s sensitive side that drives him on - it drives him even when he’s blowing away hoodlums with his .45.

    My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

    #vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #hardboiledcrime hardboiledfiction #hardboiled #pulpfiction #MickeySpillane #MikeHammer

  13. Mickey Spillane was definitely in the groove when he wrote the fifth Mike Hammer book The Big Kill in 1951. As so often it’s Hammer’s sensitive side that drives him on - it drives him even when he’s blowing away hoodlums with his .45.

    My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

    #vintagethrillers #vintagethriller #vintagemystery #vintagemysteries #noir #noirfiction #crimefiction #hardboiledcrime hardboiledfiction #hardboiled #pulpfiction #MickeySpillane #MikeHammer

  14. #Noirvember Watched “Kiss Me Deadly” (1955), a #FilmNoir movie with a heaping helpful of Cold War paranoia. Directed by #RobertAldrich, and starring #RalphMeeker as Mike Hammer, a brazen private dick who becomes embroiled in a bizarre mystery after picking up #ClorisLeachman (!) as Christina Bailey, a woman on the run from a shadowy cabal. Based on a novel by #MickeySpillane. archive.org/details/kissmedead

  15. #Noirvember Watched “Kiss Me Deadly” (1955), a #FilmNoir movie with a heaping helpful of Cold War paranoia. Directed by #RobertAldrich, and starring #RalphMeeker as Mike Hammer, a brazen private dick who becomes embroiled in a bizarre mystery after picking up #ClorisLeachman (!) as Christina Bailey, a woman on the run from a shadowy cabal. Based on a novel by #MickeySpillane. archive.org/details/kissmedead

  16. #Noirvember Watched “Kiss Me Deadly” (1955), a #FilmNoir movie with a heaping helpful of Cold War paranoia. Directed by #RobertAldrich, and starring #RalphMeeker as Mike Hammer, a brazen private dick who becomes embroiled in a bizarre mystery after picking up #ClorisLeachman (!) as Christina Bailey, a woman on the run from a shadowy cabal. Based on a novel by #MickeySpillane. archive.org/details/kissmedead

  17. #Noirvember Watched “Kiss Me Deadly” (1955), a #FilmNoir movie with a heaping helpful of Cold War paranoia. Directed by #RobertAldrich, and starring #RalphMeeker as Mike Hammer, a brazen private dick who becomes embroiled in a bizarre mystery after picking up #ClorisLeachman (!) as Christina Bailey, a woman on the run from a shadowy cabal. Based on a novel by #MickeySpillane. archive.org/details/kissmedead

  18. #Noirvember Watched “Kiss Me Deadly” (1955), a #FilmNoir movie with a heaping helpful of Cold War paranoia. Directed by #RobertAldrich, and starring #RalphMeeker as Mike Hammer, a brazen private dick who becomes embroiled in a bizarre mystery after picking up #ClorisLeachman (!) as Christina Bailey, a woman on the run from a shadowy cabal. Based on a novel by #MickeySpillane. archive.org/details/kissmedead

  19. Bloody Sunrise from 1965, second of Mickey Spillane’s Tiger Mann spy novels. Tiger works for a private spy agency. He doesn't have to play by the rules. This tale involves a defector and a woman who isn't who she appears to be. Good stuff.

    My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

    #spies #spynovel #spynovels #spyfiction #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers #MickeySpillane #TigerMann #pulpfiction

  20. Mickey Spillane’s 1964 novel The Snake is a sequel to The Girl Hunters and you absolutely must read The Girl Hunters first. This is a very different Mike Hammer - older, wiser and sadder. Both books are great, but read the earlier books first.

    My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

    #crimenovel #crimenovels #crimefiction #vintagecrime #vintagemysteries #vintagemystery #MickeySpillane #MikeHammer #hardboiled #hardboiledfiction #privateeyes

  21. Mickey Spillane’s 1967 spy thriller The Delta Factor. A thief is forced to do a job for the government, breaking a scientist out of an impregnable 17th century fortress. He also wants revenge. Fun, and more lighthearted than his Hammer books.

    My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

    #spynovel #spynovels #spies #spyfiction #MickeySpillane #vintagethriller #vintagethrillers

  22. I can't believe I missed this going up. But...here is my enormous double #sestina culled from the writings of #JordanPeterson and other manly writers. #NickBostrom! #MickeySpillane! #MarquisdeSade! Learn how to be a #man! synchchaos.com/poetry-from-noa

  23. Tonight in 1984 — #MikeHammer debuted as a weekly series on CBS.

    #StacyKeach played #MickeySpillane’s iconic private eye, first introduced in the 1947 novel "I, the Jury.”

    #OnThisDay #ClassicTV #1980s #1980sTV #Nostalgia

  24. Time To Prey, an enjoyable 1960 entry in Frank Kane’s long-running Johnny Liddell PI thriller series. A pretty girl passes a letter to Johnny and then gets murdered.

    Johnny Liddell is a Mike Hammer clone, but more cold-blooded and less ethical. But Kane is just not in Spillane's league as a writer.

    My review: vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co

    #noir #noirfiction #hardboiled #hardboiledfiction #vintagecrime #1960scrime #crimefiction #FrankKane #MickeySpillane #MikeHammer #privateeyes

  25. CW: comic book mayhem

    Peter A. Morisi (1928-2003) aka PAM was #BOTD
    An American #ComicBook writer/artist who is best known as creator of the 1960s #Charlton series “Peter Cannon…Thunderbolt”, a thoughtful superhero #comic that contained some of the earliest respectful invocations of Eastern mysticism in American pop culture. With writer Ken Fitch he co-created the cult 1950s #MickeySpillane -inspired gumshoe #JohnnyDynamite .

    @comics @comicstodon #Comics #ComicBooks #Thunderbolt

  26. CW: comic book mayhem

    Peter A. Morisi (1928-2003) aka PAM was #BOTD
    An American #ComicBook writer/artist who is best known as creator of the 1960s #Charlton series “Peter Cannon…Thunderbolt”, a thoughtful superhero #comic that contained some of the earliest respectful invocations of Eastern mysticism in American pop culture. With writer Ken Fitch he co-created the cult 1950s #MickeySpillane -inspired gumshoe #JohnnyDynamite .

    @comics @comicstodon #Comics #ComicBooks #Thunderbolt

  27. CW: comic book mayhem

    Peter A. Morisi (1928-2003) aka PAM was #BOTD
    An American #ComicBook writer/artist who is best known as creator of the 1960s #Charlton series “Peter Cannon…Thunderbolt”, a thoughtful superhero #comic that contained some of the earliest respectful invocations of Eastern mysticism in American pop culture. With writer Ken Fitch he co-created the cult 1950s #MickeySpillane -inspired gumshoe #JohnnyDynamite .

    @comics @comicstodon #Comics #ComicBooks #Thunderbolt

  28. CW: comic book mayhem

    Peter A. Morisi (1928-2003) aka PAM was #BOTD
    An American #ComicBook writer/artist who is best known as creator of the 1960s #Charlton series “Peter Cannon…Thunderbolt”, a thoughtful superhero #comic that contained some of the earliest respectful invocations of Eastern mysticism in American pop culture. With writer Ken Fitch he co-created the cult 1950s #MickeySpillane -inspired gumshoe #JohnnyDynamite .

    @comics @comicstodon #Comics #ComicBooks #Thunderbolt

  29. CW: comic book mayhem

    Peter A. Morisi (1928-2003) aka PAM was #BOTD
    An American #ComicBook writer/artist who is best known as creator of the 1960s #Charlton series “Peter Cannon…Thunderbolt”, a thoughtful superhero #comic that contained some of the earliest respectful invocations of Eastern mysticism in American pop culture. With writer Ken Fitch he co-created the cult 1950s #MickeySpillane -inspired gumshoe #JohnnyDynamite .

    @comics @comicstodon #Comics #ComicBooks #Thunderbolt