"reviving the Mike Hammer franchise. A year later, Stacy Keach returned to his role as Hammer in the made-for-TV movie ""The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer"", which aired on April 18, 1986. Thanks to the positive reception of the movie and the tenacity of Jay Bernstein, the series was continued, but this time under the title ""The New Mike Hammer"". The reboot took over its old 9:00-10:00 pm time slot when it first aired on Saturday, September 22, 1986, but was hastily shifted to the 8:00-9:00 Wednesday time slot after the failure of Better Days and Together We Stand."
"Mickey Spillane Frank Morrison Spillane (; March 9, 1918July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself. Born in Brooklyn, New York City, and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Spillane was the only child of his Irish bartender father, John Joseph Spillane, and his Scottish mother, Catherine Anne. Spillane attended Erasmus Hall High School, graduating in 1935. He started writing while in high school,"
"2015, Keach became a Polish citizen. He suffered a mild stroke in March 2009, from which he has made a full recovery. Stacy Keach Walter Stacy Keach Jr. (born June 2, 1941) is an American actor of stage, film, and television. Highly prolific, he has played mainly dramatic roles throughout his career, often in law enforcement or as a private detective. His most prominent role was as Mickey Spillane's fictional detective Mike Hammer, which he played in numerous stand-alone television films and at least three different television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The role earned him a Golden Globe"
"Ralph Meeker Ralph Meeker (born Ralph Rathgeber; November 21, 1920 August 5, 1988) was an American film, stage, and television actor. He first rose to prominence for his roles in the Broadway productions of ""Mister Roberts"" (1948–1951) and ""Picnic"" (1953), the former of which earned him a Theatre World Award for his performance. In film, Meeker is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Mike Hammer in Robert Aldrich's 1955 film noir cult classic ""Kiss Me Deadly"". Meeker went on to play a series of roles that used his husky and macho screen presence, including a lead role in Stanley"
"Stacy Keach Walter Stacy Keach Jr. (born June 2, 1941) is an American actor of stage, film, and television. Highly prolific, he has played mainly dramatic roles throughout his career, often in law enforcement or as a private detective. His most prominent role was as Mickey Spillane's fictional detective Mike Hammer, which he played in numerous stand-alone television films and at least three different television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The role earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1984. He has also performed as a narrator for programs including CNBC'S ""American Greed"" (2008–) and various educational television"
"Jack Stang Jack Stang born John A. Stang (October 29, 1923 – January 7, 1996) was Mickey Spillane's inspiration for the private eye character Mike Hammer in his novels. During World War II Stang was a U.S. Marine who served in the Pacific Theater on Samoa, Guadacanal and Bougainville. He was wounded in action, and was one of four men in his platoon to survive. Following the war, Stang was a Newburgh, New York policeman where Spillane, then residing at Orange Lake in suburban Newburgh, met him in 1946. After leaving the Newburgh Police, Stang operated a popular riverfront bar"
"Jack Stang Jack Stang born John A. Stang (October 29, 1923 – January 7, 1996) was Mickey Spillane's inspiration for the private eye character Mike Hammer in his novels. During World War II Stang was a U.S. Marine who served in the Pacific Theater on Samoa, Guadacanal and Bougainville. He was wounded in action, and was one of four men in his platoon to survive. Following the war, Stang was a Newburgh, New York policeman where Spillane, then residing at Orange Lake in suburban Newburgh, met him in 1946. After leaving the Newburgh Police, Stang operated a popular riverfront bar"
"MC Hammer Stanley Kirk Burrell (born March 30, 1962), better known by his stage name MC Hammer (or simply Hammer), is an American hip hop recording artist, dancer, record producer and entrepreneur. He had his greatest commercial success and popularity from the late 1980s, until the early 1990s. Remembered for his rapid rise to fame, Hammer is known for hit records (such as ""U Can't Touch This"" and ""2 Legit 2 Quit""), flashy dance movements, choreography and eponymous Hammer pants. A multi-award winner, M.C. Hammer is considered a ""forefather/pioneer"" and innovator of pop rap (incorporating elements of ), and is"
"Biff Elliot Biff Elliot (born Leon Shalek, July 26, 1923 – August 15, 2012) was an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as popular detective Mike Hammer in the 1953 version of ""I, the Jury"", and for his guest appearance in the """" episode ""The Devil in the Dark"". Elliot was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, the son of Susan M. (née Bernstein) and Israel Michael Shalek. All of his grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. His father was a former semi-pro baseball player who had, after retiring, opened a burlap-bag manufacturing business in Presque Isle,"
"Sledge Hammer! Sledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran for two seasons on ABC from 1986 to 1988. The series was created by Alan Spencer and stars David Rasche as Inspector Sledge Hammer, a caricature of the standard ""cop on the edge"" character. Inspired by Clint Eastwood's no-nonsense approach to law enforcement in the ""Dirty Harry"" films, teenager Alan Spencer dreamed up the idea of a police officer whose approach was even more over-the-top, to the point of absurdity. At the age of 16, Spencer wrote a screenplay based on this idea."
"Mike Mignola Michael Joseph ""Mike"" Mignola (; born September 16, 1960) is an American comics artist and writer known for creating the ""Mignola-verse"" for Dark Horse Comics, a collection of titles including ""Hellboy"", ""B.P.R.D."" and various spinoffs (""Lobster Johnson"", ""Abe Sapien"", ""Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder"", etc.). He has also created similarly themed titles for Dark Horse including ""Baltimore"", ""The Amazing Screw-On Head"", and ""Joe Golem: Occult Detective"". Mignola's film work includes ""Bram Stoker's Dracula"" (1992), """" (2001), ""Blade II"" (2002), the 2004 adaptation of ""Hellboy"", its and 2019 reboot. Mignola was born in Berkeley, California. He began his career in"
"Mike Zeck Michael J. Zeck (born September 6, 1949), known professionally as Mike Zeck, is an American comics artist. He is best known for his work for Marvel Comics on such series as ""Captain America"", ""Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars"", ""Master of Kung-Fu"", and ""The Punisher"" as well as the ""Kraven's Last Hunt"" storyline in the Spider-Man titles. Mike Zeck was born in Greenville, Pennsylvania, to Michael and Kathryn Jean Zeck. He attended the Ringling School of Art in 1967, and after graduation worked at the Migrant Education Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Zeck began his comics career in 1974, doing"
"I love you. God bless. Michael (Mr Wayne) Keaton."" Gough was added in ""In Memoriam"" at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards. Michael Gough Francis Michael Gough ( ; 23 November 1916 – 17 March 2011) was an English character actor who made over 150 film and television appearances, known for his roles in the Hammer Horror Films from 1958 and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four films of the Tim Burton / Joel Schumacher ""Batman"" tetralogy. Gough was born in Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States (now Malaysia) on 23 November 1916, the son of English"
"Dick Briefer Richard ""Dick"" Briefer (January 9, 1915 – December 1980) was an American comic-book artist best known for his various adaptations, including humorous ones, of the Frankenstein monster. Under the pseudonym Dick Hamilton, he also created the superhero team the Target and the Targeteers for Novelty Press. Dick Briefer studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan, New York City, and debuted in comic books in 1936 with work in ""Wow, What A Magazine!"", one of the era's proto-comics ""Comic books"": tabloid-sized collections of comic strip reprints in color, which would later include occasional new comic strip-like material. ""Wow"""
"died in New York City 1950, aged 38. Kane blamed his death on a ""broken heart"" at a young age. Crime novelist Mickey Spillane, who worked for Lloyd Jacquet's Funnies Inc. packager during the 1930s and 1940s, teamed with Sahle on a number of occasions, including on the character ""Mike Danger"", which Spillane described as ""the original concept of Mike Hammer"", the archetypal hardboiled detective of mid-20th century paperback novels. After Spillane's novels were successful, some ""Mike Danger"" stories saw print in issues of ""Crime Detector"" in 1954, and new stories featuring the character were published by Big Entertainment four"
"Hammerman Hammerman is a Saturday morning cartoon, produced by DIC Entertainment and starring pop rapper MC Hammer, which aired for thirteen episodes on ABC in the fall of 1991. Youth center worker Stanley Burrell (Hammer's real name) owns a pair of magical dancing shoes (which are alive and can speak), which when worn cause Burrell to transform into the superhero Hammerman. He frequently gets advice from his ""Gramps"", who was a former owner of the shoes and was known as Soulman. While in the guise of Hammerman, Burrell was dressed in MC Hammer's signature purple Hammer pants and myriad golden"
"Malcolm Cowley dismissed the Mike Hammer character as ""a homicidal paranoiac"", John G. Cawelti called Spillane's writing ""atrocious"", and Julian Symons called Spillane's work ""nauseating"". By contrast, Ayn Rand publicly praised Spillane's work at a time when critics were almost uniformly hostile. She considered him an underrated if uneven stylist and found congenial the black-and-white morality of the Hammer stories. She later publicly repudiated what she regarded as the amorality of Spillane's Tiger Mann stories. Spillane's work was later praised by Max Allan Collins, William L. DeAndrea and Robert L. Gale. DeAndrea argued that although Spillane's characters were stereotypes, Spillane"
"Lank Leonard Frank E. Leonard (January 2, 1896 – August 1, 1970), better known as Lank Leonard, was an American cartoonist artist who created the long-running comic strip ""Mickey Finn"", which he drew for more than three decades. Born in Port Chester, New York in 1896, Leonard decided early in his childhood that he wanted to be a cartoonist while he made copies of ""Buster Brown"", ""Happy Hooligan"", ""Little Nemo"" and ""The Katzenjammer Kids"", eventually creating his own characters. In high school, he was the art editor of his school newspaper. After his high school graduation, Leonard took a job"
"Dick Hammer Richard Bernard Hammer (July 17, 1930 – October 18, 1999) was an American athlete, firefighter, and actor. Born in Long Beach, California, Hammer attended the University of Southern California. Hammer was a basketball player at the University of Southern California, competed in volleyball at the 1964 Summer Olympics. As an actor, he played the role of Captain Richard ""Dick"" Hammer in the first season of the Jack Webb produced television show ""Emergency!"", which debuted on January 15, 1972. He left the show midway through the first season, because he felt that being a real life firefighter was more"
"Ross Andru Ross Andru (; born Rossolav Andruskevich; June 15, 1927 – November 9, 1993) was an American comics artist and editor. He is best known for his work on ""The Amazing Spider-Man"", ""Wonder Woman"", ""The Flash"", and ""The Metal Men,"" and for having co-created the character called The Punisher. His most frequent collaborator was inker Mike Esposito, with whom he worked on projects over a span of four decades. The two founded three short-lived comic books companies: Mr. Publications (1951), MikeRoss (1953) and Klevart Enterprises (1970). Andru was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in"
"during the UCLA Spring Sing in Pauley Pavilion on May 17, 2013. MC Hammer Stanley Kirk Burrell (born March 30, 1962), better known by his stage name MC Hammer (or simply Hammer), is an American hip hop recording artist, dancer, record producer and entrepreneur. He had his greatest commercial success and popularity from the late 1980s, until the early 1990s. Remembered for his rapid rise to fame, Hammer is known for hit records (such as ""U Can't Touch This"" and ""2 Legit 2 Quit""), flashy dance movements, choreography and eponymous Hammer pants. A multi-award winner, M.C. Hammer is considered a"
"Jack of Hearts Jack of Hearts (Jack Hart) is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Deadly Hands of Kung Fu 22, and was created by writer Bill Mantlo and artist Keith Giffen. He starred in his own four-issue mini series and has been a regular character in the Iron Man comics as well as at one point being a regular in the Avengers comic book. Jack of Hearts, real name Jack Hart, is the son of scientist Philip Hart who created ""Zero Fluid"" and an alien woman"
"other violent comic books, leading to the creation of the Comics Code, Briefer left the comic industry for commercial advertising art. At the time of his death, Briefer was living in the Hollywood / Pembroke Pines area of Broward County, Florida. Dick Briefer Richard ""Dick"" Briefer (January 9, 1915 – December 1980) was an American comic-book artist best known for his various adaptations, including humorous ones, of the Frankenstein monster. Under the pseudonym Dick Hamilton, he also created the superhero team the Target and the Targeteers for Novelty Press. Dick Briefer studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan, New"
"1961, he appeared as Dr. Walter in the very first episode of ""The Dick Van Dyke Show"". Keach's lookalike son, Stacy Keach Jr., enjoys an acting career with far greater name recognition than his father's. The younger Keach is perhaps best known for starring in the title role of the ""Mike Hammer"" television series in the 1980s and 1990s. Another son, James Keach, an actor, director, and producer, was married to the actress Jane Seymour. Keach died of congestive heart failure at the age of eighty-eight in Burbank, California and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills). Stacy"
"Michael Gough Francis Michael Gough ( ; 23 November 1916 – 17 March 2011) was an English character actor who made over 150 film and television appearances, known for his roles in the Hammer Horror Films from 1958 and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four films of the Tim Burton / Joel Schumacher ""Batman"" tetralogy. Gough was born in Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States (now Malaysia) on 23 November 1916, the son of English parents Francis Berkeley Gough and Frances Atkins (née Bailie). Gough was educated at Rose Hill School, Tunbridge Wells, and at Durham School."
"shouted ""Does this look like I'm a goddammned communist?"" He did not get the part. Burns made his motion picture debut in the 1956 war film ""Between Heaven and Hell"". He also wrote several of the ""Kilroy"" episodes of ""The Wonderful World of Color"" for Walt Disney. Bart Burns Bart Burns was an American character actor. He was born George Joseph Burns March 13, 1918 in New York City, and died July 17, 2007 in West Hills, Los Angeles, California. He is known mostly for playing Pat Chambers on the 1959 ""Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer"" television show and for numerous"
"together. Andy's condition requires him to take special medication developed by SHADE, otherwise he will involuntarily explode. In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, a 4-issue mini-series helmed by ""Battle for Bludhaven"" creators Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti introduces a new Human Bomb, named Michael Taylor, an ex-Marine and veteran who ""uncovers a plot to use ""human bombs"" to destroy the United States"". Human Bomb The Human Bomb is a fictional superhero published by DC Comics. He first appeared in ""Police Comics"" #1 (August 1941), and was created by writer and artist Paul Gustavson."
"have inherited, had it not been stolen. Mike Hammer takes on the whole mafia, coolly, and in imperfect health. Black Alley Black Alley (1996) is Mickey Spillane's 13th novel featuring tougher-than-thou New York City private investigator Mike Hammer, and the last one he completed before his death in July 2006. Following the author's demise, the first of ""five substantial Mike Hammer manuscripts,"" ""The Goliath Bone"", was completed by his friend and colleague Max Allan Collins and published in 2008. Additional books based on Spillane's unfinished manuscripts have since been released, including ""Lady, Go Die!"" (2012), ""Complex 90"" (2013) and ""King"
"Hulk (comics) The Hulk is a fictional superhero appearing in publications by the American publisher Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in the debut issue of ""The Incredible Hulk"" (May 1962). In his comic book appearances, the character is both the Hulk, a green-skinned, hulking and muscular humanoid possessing a vast degree of physical strength, and his alter ego Dr. Robert Bruce Banner, a physically weak, socially withdrawn, and emotionally reserved physicist, the two existing as independent personalities and resenting of the other. Following his accidental exposure to gamma rays during"
"popular detective shows of the day (e.g., Remington Steele, Thomas Magnum), Mike Hammer was unapologetically masculine with little concern for political correctness. A prominent feature of most episodes was the inclusion of a number of female characters (known in casting sessions ""Hammer-ettes"") who would exchange a double entendre or two with Hammer while wearing very low tops and push-up bras emphasizing their ample cleavage. Hammer would regularly wind up in bed with the highly sexualized female characters in the show, who would never fail to melt once they had fixed their eyes upon the brawny detective. The show's writers latched"
"Armie Hammer Armand Douglas ""Armie"" Hammer (born August 28, 1986) is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of the Winklevoss twins in the biographical drama film ""The Social Network"" (2010), the title character in the western action film ""The Lone Ranger"" (2013), Illya Kuryakin in the action film ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E."" (2015), Mike in the thriller film ""Mine"" (2016), the voice role of Jackson Storm in the animated film ""Cars 3"", and Oliver in the romantic drama film ""Call Me by Your Name"" (both 2017). For his portrayal of Clyde Tolson in the biographical drama film"
"to ""Kingdom Come"". Mike Zeck Michael J. Zeck (born September 6, 1949), known professionally as Mike Zeck, is an American comics artist. He is best known for his work for Marvel Comics on such series as ""Captain America"", ""Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars"", ""Master of Kung-Fu"", and ""The Punisher"" as well as the ""Kraven's Last Hunt"" storyline in the Spider-Man titles. Mike Zeck was born in Greenville, Pennsylvania, to Michael and Kathryn Jean Zeck. He attended the Ringling School of Art in 1967, and after graduation worked at the Migrant Education Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Zeck began his comics career"
"Jack Hammer (songwriter) Earl Solomon Burroughs (September 16, 1925 – April 8, 2016), known professionally as Jack Hammer, was an American pianist, singer, and songwriter, credited as the co-writer of ""Great Balls of Fire"". Burroughs was born either in Fulton County, Georgia, New Orleans, or Grovetown, Georgia, but grew up in California. In the early 1950s, he moved to New York City, where he worked as an MC at the Baby Grand Theatre. He began writing songs, one of his earliest being ""Fujiyama Mama"", recorded by Annisteen Allen, Eileen Barton, and a few years later by Wanda Jackson. After starting"