ALL PULP REVIEWS by Ron Fortier COMPLEX 90 By Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins Titan Books 244 pages Available May 2013 Beginning a new year with a new Mike Hammer novel is a cause for jubilant celebration. In his short preface to the book, begun by the late Mickey Spillane, Collins informs us that…
Press Release: NEW STEPHEN KING NOVEL COMING FROM HARD CASE CRIME JOYLAND to be published in June 2013 New York, NY; London, UK (May 30, 2012)—Hard Case Crime, the award-winning line of pulp-styled crime novels published by Titan Books, today announced it will publish JOYLAND, a new novel by Stephen King, in June 2013. Set…
ALL PULP REVIEWS by Ron Fortier MICKEY SPILLANE ON SCREEN By Max Allan Collins & James L. Traylor McFarland & Company, Inc. (www.mcfarlandpub.com) (800-253-2187) 210 pages Scholarly treatises such as this volume, which examines the film and television adaptations of mystery writer, Mickey Spillane, run the risk of committing the most ironic literary sin of…
Hermes Press will collect the short lived Mike Hammer comic strip by creator Mickey Spillane in a hardcover collection, retailing for $49.95. Mickey Spillane’s From the Files of Mike Hammer: The Complete Dailies & Sundays, will collect all installments of the strip, which originally appeared in 1953 and 1954 and was drawn by Ed Rollins….
ALL PULP REVIEWS by Ron Fortier LADY, GO DIE By Max Allan Collins & Mickey Spillane Titan Books 241 pages Available May 2012 After returning home from World War II, veteran Mickey Spillane was prepared to go back to his civilian job of writing comics. But instead, he opted to take an idea for a…
ALL PULP REVIEWS-Book Reviews by Ron Fortier THE CONSUMMATA By Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins Hard Case Crime 247 pages Release date 4 Oct 2011 In 1967 popular mystery writer, Mickey Spillane, sought to cash in the James Bond spy craze sweeping the world of literary fiction. He created a Florida based government agent…
ALL PULP REVIEWS KISS HER GOODBYE By Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 270 pages Available 25 May 2011 This book, the third Mike Hammer thriller begun by the late Spillane and completed by his protégé Collins, takes place in the mid 1970s. Hammer is in sunny Florida recuperating from several bullet…
