MIKE HAMMY

MIKE HAMMER
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.

Stacy Keach was indicted for cocaine possession, temporarily shutting down production of the show.

The sayings on the Coke machine are graffiti from the comic strip Smokey Stover.

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.

MY GUN IS THE JURY
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.

The themes of cross-dressing and trans-gender were a punchline in and of themselves two generations ago.

THE COLDGATE TRAGEDY THEATER
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.