The franchise centers around the character of Mike Hammer, a tough and hardboiled private investigator with a no-nonsense approach to solving crimes. First introduced in the 1947 novel “I, the ...

Kolchak star Darren McGavin found fame playing Hammer from 1958-1959 in the popular TV series Mike Hammer, which signaled the end of the first wave of Hammer popularity.

The franchise centers around the character of Mike Hammer, a tough and hardboiled private investigator with a no-nonsense approach to solving crimes. First introduced in the 1947 novel “I, the ...

Matthew McConaughey and True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto are reuniting for a new Mike Hammer movie. McConaughey played Detective Rustin “Rust” Cohle alongside Woody Harrelson as Detective ...

Hammer stories were also featured on television in the series "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" and in made-for-TV movies. In the 1980s, Spillane appeared in a string of Miller Lite beer commercials.

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 ...

CLEARWATER — From the moment the title character takes center stage, Mike Hammer — Encore for Murder is sold. Rarely does one actor own an entire production the way Gary Sandy owns this world ...

When it comes to hard-boiled private investigators Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe tend to steal all of the headlines, but Mike Hammer doesn't deserve to be ignored. Created by Mickey Spillane in ...

Mike Hammer has slugged it out on Fremont Street for 13 years. But he’s never been left bleeding, looking like a boxer who has been cracked with a right hook.

Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer is actually based on a story by Spillane himself, “The Night I Died,” originally written in the 1950s as an unproduced screenplay.

Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer is actually based on a story by Spillane himself, “The Night I Died,” originally written in the 1950s as an unproduced screenplay. As one would expect, it ...