Anthony Boucher maintained that I, The Jury should be “required reading in a Gestapo training school.” The books, however, sold in their millions (by the early 80’s Spillane had sold nearly 150 million). Few writers have been as disliked as much (and as quickly) as Spillane. The reaction from Mickey Spillane‘s peers was equally extreme. Extreme indeed but there is no questioning the impact of the book or the fact that, in picking up where Race Williams left off, Hammer was in the classic P.I. The bloody ending leaves no room for anything much, let alone subtlety.
#Old man hammer kid code#
Avenging a friend’s death, Hammer makes his mark following a code of violence which allows nothing to stand in his way. Written in six days (or nine, or nineteen) it is a fever dream pulp classic. The first – and best known – in the series, I, The Jury (1947), quite literally takes no prisoners.
The Hammer books are not only extreme in their subject matter, but they also have a tendency to provoke an extreme reaction. Whatever else you may think about MIKE HAMMER, one word may well be appropriate: extreme. Mickey Spillane as Mike Hammer in The Girl Hunters (1963). please allow him to introduce himself ( I, the Jury) ONE TAKE If you want something done right, do it yourself.
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