Primal Spillane
- Authors
- Mickey Spillane
- Publisher
- Bold Venture Press
- Tags
- horror , humor , world war 2 , detective , treasure , hardboiled , soldiers , stock car racing , mike hammer , golden age comic books
- Size
- 0.40 MB
- Lang
- en
by Mickey Spillane
Edited by Max Allan Collins Lynn F. Myers, Jr.
40 fast-moving short-short stories by the creator of Mike Hammer!
Before Mike Hammer, P.I. made his explosive debut in I, the Jury, author Mickey Spillane (1918-2006) toiled in relative obscurity, writing short-short stories as filler material in Golden Age comic books. Their purpose to fulfill a postal requirement, these stories were the literary boot-camp for the future king of hardboiled fiction.
In commemoration of the year-long Spillane centenary, Bold Venture Press is proud to release the newly revised and expanded edition of Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941 - 1942. This unique anthology, long out-of-print and largely unavailable, returns with additional material never before reprinted and a newly discovered, previously unpublished story by Spillane.
In this collection, you'll meet high-flying soldiers, a prospector exploring a Lovecraftian mine-shaft, a...