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While 's or Dashiell Hammett 's heroes. While other hardboiled heroes bend and manipulate the law, Hammer holds it in total contempt, seeing it as nothing more than an impediment to justice, the one virtue he holds in absolute esteem. Hammer is also patriotic and anti-communist. The novels are peppered with remarks by Hammer supporting American troops in Korea, and in ''Survival...Zero'' Vietnam. In ''One Lonely Night'', where Hammer attends a communist meeting in a park, Hammer's reaction to the speaker's propaganda is a paragraph with only one word in it: "Yeah." So far as violence is concerned, the Hammer novels leave little to the imagination. Written in the First Person , Hammer describes his violent encounters with relish. In all but a few novels, after a beating by Hammer, his victims are often left vomiting after a blow to the stomach or groin, the vomiting being a kind of Spillane signature. The '' Washington Times '' obituary of Spillane said of Hammer, "In a manner similar to Clint Eastwood 's Dirty Harry , Hammer was a cynical loner contemptuous of the "tedious process" of trials, choosing instead to enforce the law on his own terms." {Link without Title} MIKE HAMMER NOVELS
MIKE HAMMER TELEVISION SERIES There have been four serialized television shows based on the exploits of Mike Hammer.
MIKE HAMMER FILMS
:Filmed in 3-D starring Biff Elliot as Mike Hammer.
: Robert Aldrich was the Director , Ralph Meeker was cast as Hammer, Maxine Cooper portrayed Hammer's sexy secretary/companion Velda.
: Robert Bray was cast as Hammer, with more of the violence originated from the villain rather than the detective. :The film grossed $308,000 with a total of $602 overseas.
:Mickey Spillane was given the rare opportunity to portray his own creation in this film. This is one of the few occasions in film history in which the creator of a literary character was later hired to portray that character in a film.
: Armand Assante plays Hammer in this version.
: Rob Estes plays Hammer in this TV movie. Pamela Anderson plays his secretary Velda. MIKE HAMMER COMIC STRIP A short-lived Comic Strip starring Mike Hammer was distributed by Phoenix Features Syndicate from 1953 to 1954 . It was entitled "From the Files of... Mike Hammer" and written by Spillane, Ed Robbins and Joe Gill, with art by Ed Robbins. Collections of the strip were published in the 1980s . {Link without Title} MIKE HAMMER IN OTHER MEDIA
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