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.
4 comments:
Big fun! Thanks for posting!
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).
The two Mike Danger stories are in BYLINE, also.
Thanks for the lowdown, Max!
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