Mike Hammer is a brutal, violent hero who lives by his own austere moral code exacting bloody vengeance on those he thinks deserve it. A total of fourteen Mike Hammer books were published during Spillane’s life. I, the Jury set the sex and violence template for the rest of the Hammer series which usually featured a dame in trouble and bad men doing bad things. He wrote his first Mike Hammer novel I, the Jury in nineteen days. Spillane had written stories for comic books like Captain America, Batman, and Superman before, working alongside a young Stan Lee, who could work on three different stories on three different typewriters all at the same time. Mike Hammer was originally intended as a comic strip hero called Mike Danger. Without missing a beat, Spillane replied, “You’re lucky I didn’t write another four.” At a party, Spillane met an East-coast critic who decried the writer for polluting the list. Spillane was at his peak in the 1950s when he would often have six books in the top ten best-seller list. He wrote for himself and he knew there were plenty of people who wanted to read his stories. These books were loved by the public but loathed by the critics. “Authors want their name down in history I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.” During his lifetime, Spillane sold over 200 million books, most featuring his hard-nosed, two-fisted hero Mike Hammer. Mickey Spillane said he was a writer, not an author.
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