I loved the TV Show in the 80’s…Don’t know a whole lot about the earlier incarnations though.
Hate to see him go.
Mike Hammer creator Mickey Spillane dies – Yahoo! News
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Mickey Spillane, the macho mystery writer who wowed millions of readers with the shoot-’em-up sex and violence of gumshoe Mike Hammer, died Monday. He was 88.