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Post by ramseycampbell on Aug 20, 2011 9:31:47 GMT
And don't forget Fritz Leiber wrote a Mike Hammer parody!
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Post by stuyoung on Aug 20, 2011 17:45:48 GMT
Yeah, I read the Leiber parody -- 'The Night He Cried' -- before I ever read any Spillane. First Spillane I ever read was the short story 'Kick It or Kill!' which, funnily enough, I just picked up again today in a Spillane collection called Me, Hood! Nearly picked up The Goliath Bone as well, the Hammer novel Spillane was working on when he died and which was completed by Max Allan Collins. But I decided to stick with pure Spillane for the time being.
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Post by doomovertheworld on Aug 20, 2011 20:12:42 GMT
having had a look on the book shelves it would appear that i have vengeance is mine, i the jury & kiss me deadly. i remember enjoying them when i read them. i tried to read one lonely night, but found it, particularly because of the rather hysterical anti-communism in it, almost well nigh unreadable.
where would i be able to find the fritz leiber parody?
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Post by stuyoung on Aug 21, 2011 7:14:26 GMT
I read the Leiber parody in The Best of Fritz Leiber. I don't know if it's available elsewhere.
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Post by doomovertheworld on Aug 21, 2011 8:29:13 GMT
I read the Leiber parody in The Best of Fritz Leiber. I don't know if it's available elsewhere. cheers for that. i'll add the best of fritz leiber to my list of books to try and get hold of
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Post by stuyoung on Sept 18, 2011 20:24:16 GMT
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Post by stuyoung on Sept 26, 2011 14:23:09 GMT
Read the Mike Hammer Comic Strip Volumes 1 and 2. Spillane had a hand in writing the Sunday strips. Ed Robbins did most of the writing on the daily strips as well as supplying the artwork. Nice use of black and white in this extract from the strips. And this one looks like a '50s version of the artwork Frank Miller uses on Sin City. This image of a woman being tortured with a lit cigarette is the one that got the strip banned.
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