Tuesday, September 4, 2018

MICKEY SPILLANE's protoHammer, "Mike Lancer" (1942)


You've probably heard of Mike Danger, the comic book private eye Spillane tried to market in 1946, just before introducing Mike Hammer in I, the Jury. But Hammer's first incarnation saw print way back in 1942, in the tenth issue of Green Hornet comics. Spillane wrote the script, and the art is by Harry Sahle. My thanks to "freddyfly" for scanning this issue and posting it on comicbookplus.

Watch this space. Spillane's two Mike Danger stories, which finally saw print in 1954, will be coming PDQ.






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4 comments:

  1. Stephen MertzSeptember 4, 2018 at 7:54 AM

    Big fun! Thanks for posting!

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  2. Max Allan CollinsSeptember 7, 2018 at 4:43 AM

    Nice to see this posted in color, but it's not a new discovery. Lynn Myers and I published it from the original art (the splash is on my office wall) in BYLINE: SPILLANE in 2004 (Crippen & Landru).

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  3. Max Allan CollinsSeptember 7, 2018 at 4:52 AM

    The two Mike Danger stories are in BYLINE, also.

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  4. Evan LewisSeptember 7, 2018 at 4:24 PM

    Thanks for the lowdown, Max!

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