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Issue: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer #[1]

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Publication Date: January 1982

Issue #[1]

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Issues: #[1] of 2 Issues

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Publisher: Flag

Ken Pierce, Inc.

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Indicia Publisher: Ken Pierce Inc.

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Volume: none

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $5.95 USD

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 10 (5 stories, 1 cover)

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: black and white

Dimensions: 8.5" x 11"

Paper Stock:

Binding: softcover

Publishing Format: collected edition

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Cover, Front

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Title Page

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Content Items (10 total)

The Sudden Trap & Other Stories

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?; typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Character(s): Mike Hammer

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Blank Pages

Blank Page(s) on Interior Page(s)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Notes: Inside front cover and inside back cover are blank.

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

Credits on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?; typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Mike Hammer; Velda

First Line: The Comic Strip

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Title page with new illustration and brief indicia.

I, the Intro

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (photographs)

Inker(s): ? (photographs)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Mickey Spillane (photographs); Mike Hammer; Velda

First Line: There is a story Mickey Spillane likes to tell.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 4

Notes: Introduction, with "teasers" for newspapers and photographs of Mickey Spillane. Signed by Max Allan Collins and dated February 22, 1982.

Half-Blonde

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Character(s): Mike Hammer; Velda

First Line: Midnight Monday. Nasty... rainy...

Synopsis: A random encounter with a half-blonde woman bending over a man lying on a sidewalk leads Hammer into two murders and puts both him and the woman in danger.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Mike Hammer (Phoenix Features) 1953-04-22 ? - 1953-06-19

Miscellaneous

Pages: 13.25

Notes: In the introduction, Ed Robbins says Joe Gill wrote the "first five or six weeks" of the strip, then Ed Robbins took over writing the daily strips. Reprinted strips are not dated until 1953-05-25.

The Bandaged Woman

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Character(s): Mike Hammer

First Line: Take it easy, Mike. Those were big holes you got in your belly.

Synopsis: Mike Hammer by accident sees a bandaged patient in a hospital room, which causes unreasonable anxiety towards him by the attending physician.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Mike Hammer daily (Phoenix Features) 1953-06-20 - 1953-08-22

Miscellaneous

Pages: 13.75

The Sudden Trap

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Character(s): Mike Hammer

First Line: You want anything else, Mac?

Synopsis: A chance encounter with a pretty blonde at a gas station gets Mike Hammer tangled up in a million dollar insurance fraud involving a mobster.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Mike Hammer Sunday (Phoenix Features) 1953-08-01 - 1953-11-22

Miscellaneous

Pages: 17

Notes: The introduction verifies that this is one of two Sunday stories written by Mickey Spillane himself.

The Child

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Character(s): Mike Hammer; Velda; Pen Hanover

First Line: Saturday nite... the nite the average guy takes his gal out for a meal -

Synopsis: Mobster Pen Hanover's five-year-old daughter has been kidnapped by "Rilley's Gorillas." Hanover hires Hammer to rescue her. But the situation proves not as simple as it seemed when Hammer took the job.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Mike Hammer daily (Phoenix Features) 1953-08-24 - 1953-10-10

Miscellaneous

Pages: 10.5

Christmas Story

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Character(s): Mike Hammer; Velda; Little Jimmy

First Line: It was snowing... the giant-economy size flakes.

Synopsis: A shoplifter dressed in a Santa Claus suit is stealing toys from a department store, but for an unexpected reason.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: from Mike Hammer daily (Phoenix Features) 1953-12-07 - 1953-12-26

Miscellaneous

Pages: 4.5

Also Available

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): various

Inker(s): various

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Back cover. Listing of other books available from Ken Pierce.