CBS 1984-1987
MIKE HAMMY
MAD #255, June 1985
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Sam Viviano
Mike Hammer was a series of novels, novies, comics, and TV shows originated by Mickey Spillane. Most of the cliches of the 1940s film-noir gumshoe detective archetype originate from here. This particular iteration was updated to take place in the present-day eighties with Stacy Keach as this version of Mike Hammer. His secretary was Velda (Lindsay Bloom). The versions were all known for their voice-overs.
BLOOD, GUTS, A ROSCOE, AND YOU
MAD #38, March 1958
w: Tom Koch
a: George Woodbridge
This parodies the Spillane novels long before there was a TV show.
Panic #1, February-March 1954
w: Al Feldstein
a: Jack Davis
Combines the book titles I, the Jury and My Gun Is Quick.
Pat Chambers was the Captain.
Eh! #7, November-December 1954
artist and writer unknown
There was a TV show called The Colgate Comedy Hour. In addition to parodying the title I, The Jury and My Gun Is Quick, it also combines the titles Vengeance Is Mine and One Lonely Night.
It's kind of amazing that Spillane's grisly style was so well known that it could parodied in cartoons for kids. My personal favorite is by Walt Kelly; not from the daily Pogo strip, but from his first collection of original material, Uncle Pogo's So-So Stories. I present to you a tale by Muckey Spleen: Meat Hamburg in The Bloody Drip.
ReplyDeletehttp://whirledofkelly.blogspot.com/2012/01/corpse-and-robbers.html
Kelly did a sequel in his next collection, The Pogo Peek-A-Book, called The Bloody Drip Writhes Again. Unfortunately, I can't find the full story anywhere online. I own the book, but I don't know how to scan it without breaking the binding.
https://thrillingdetective.com/2021/04/09/meat-hamburg/