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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Spillane was lambasted by critics, including, according to Spillane, one "literary type" who said it was disgraceful that the author then had seven of the world's 10 best-selling books of all time.

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.

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, 88, who died July 17 in Murrells Inlet, S.C., was one of the world's most popular mystery writers. His specialty was tight-fisted, sadistic revenge stories, often featuring his ...

The Rev. Mike Hammer, a well-known Catholic priest in Milwaukee who ministered to people with HIV and AIDs and earned the nickname "the bishop of the east side," is being remembered for his ...

Mike Hammer, a grunt in WWII, works as a private eye, based in the Hackard Building in Manhattan. He smokes Luckies, drinks beer, or rye and soda, does home cooking (steak) in his shorts.