Editing Mike Hammer (character) (section)

== In other media ==
Several films and radio and television series have been based on the books in the Hammer series. The actor most closely identified with the character has been [[Stacy Keach]], who portrayed Hammer in a [[CBS]] television series, ''[[Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984 TV series)|Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer]]'', which ran from 1984&ndash;1987 and had a syndicated revival in 1997&ndash;1998. (An earlier syndicated version, originally aired in 1957&ndash;1958, starred [[Darren McGavin]] as Hammer.) Spillane himself played Hammer in a 1963 motion picture adaptation of ''[[The Girl Hunters]]''.  Spillane himself favoured ex-[[U.S. Marine Corps|Marine]] and former [[Newburgh, New York]] police officer [[Jack Stang]], on whom he based the character, to play him.  Stang appeared with Spillane in the 1954 film ''[[Ring of Fear (film)|Ring of Fear]]'' and in the film adaptation of ''[[I, the Jury (1953 film)|I, the Jury]]''.

===Films===
====Feature films====
[[File:The Girl Hunters (1963 film) DVD boxart.jpg|thumb|DVD cover of ''The Girl Hunters'']]
*''[[I, the Jury (1953 film)|I, the Jury]]'' ([[United Artists]], 1953), filmed in 3-D starring [[Biff Elliot]] as Mike Hammer.
*''[[Kiss Me Deadly]]'' (United Artists, 1955), [[Robert Aldrich]] was the [[director (film)|director]], [[Ralph Meeker]] was cast as Hammer, while [[Maxine Cooper]] portrayed Hammer's sexy secretary/companion Velda.
*''[[My Gun Is Quick (film)|My Gun Is Quick]]'' (United Artists, 1957), [[Robert Bray]] was cast as Hammer, with more of the violence originating from the villain than the detective. The film grossed $308,000 with a total of $602 overseas.
*''[[The Girl Hunters (film)|The Girl Hunters]]'' (Colorama Features, 1963), [[Mickey Spillane]] was given the rare opportunity to portray his own creation in this film. This is one of the few occasions in film history in which the creator of a literary character was later hired to portray that character in a film. Producer [[Robert Fellows]] and Spillane planned to follow the film with ''The Snake'' but it never materialised.
*''[[I, the Jury (1982 film)|I, the Jury]]'' ([[20th Century Fox]], 1982), [[Armand Assante]] plays a brutal, energetic Hammer opposite [[Laurene Landon]]'s sexy, athletic Velda in this hard R-rated 80s adaptation written by [[Larry Cohen]] and directed by [[Richard T. Heffron]]. Considered by the majority of Spillane fans (including Spillane co-author [[Max Allan Collins]]) to be the most authentic adaptation of the "psychotic" early Hammer novels.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.maxallancollins.com/blog/2015/04/14/quarry-mike-hammer-news/|title = Quarry & Mike Hammer News « Friends/Family/Fans of Max Allan Collins}}</ref>

====Television films====
*''Margin For Murder'' (1981 TV movie), [[Kevin Dobson]] plays Hammer in this made-for-TV movie.
*''[[Murder Me, Murder You]]'' (1983 TV movie), [[Stacy Keach]] played Hammer in this TV pilot for the TV series that ran in the 1980s. This update featured a traitor to the U.S. and a daughter Hammer does not know he has.
*''More Than Murder'' (1984 TV movie), [[Stacy Keach]] again played Hammer as a high-stakes poker game is robbed and police Captain Pat Chambers intervenes as the thieves make their getaway.  He is shot in the back and then framed as a drug dealer.  Hammer makes it his job to clear Pat and find out who nearly killed him.
*''The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer'' (1986 TV movie), [[Stacy Keach]] reprises his role as Hammer in this pilot for the third season of his Hammer TV show AKA [[Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984 TV series)|The New Mike Hammer]]. In this April 1986 TV movie, a young girl is kidnapped and there is an attempt on the daughter of a well-known actress, after which the kidnapper then turns up dead. Hammer is hired to protect the girl and travels to Los Angeles. 
*''[[Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All]]'' (1989 TV movie), Keach reprises his role of Hammer co-starring [[Lynda Carter]], [[Michelle Phillips]] and the pre-stardom [[Jim Carrey]] . He is asked by a Las Vegas entertainer named Johnny Roman ([[Edward Winter (actor)|Edward Winter]]) to come to Vegas. Mike refuses, he is then knocked out and dropped literally into Las Vegas.
*''Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery'' (1994 TV movie), [[Rob Estes]] plays Hammer in this TV movie, opposite [[Pamela Anderson]] as his secretary, Velda.
*''Mike Hammer: Song Bird (2003) (V)'' – a [[direct-to-video]] compilation of [[Mike Hammer, Private Eye]]'s 1998 episodes of ''"Songbird: Part 1"'' and ''"Songbird: Part 2"'', where [[Stacy Keach]] played Mike Hammer and [[Shannon Whirry]] played his secretary Velda.

===Television===
There have been several television shows based on the exploits of Mike Hammer.

* A 1954 [[television pilot]] was developed starring [[Brian Keith]] that was written and directed by [[Blake Edwards]], it was not picked up.<ref name=thrillingdetective>{{cite web | url  = http://www.thrillingdetective.com/hammer.html | first=Peter| last = Walker | title = Mike Hammer | publisher= ThrillingDetective.com | date= n.d. | access-date = July 7, 2013|display-authors=etal}}</ref>
*''[[Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1958 TV series)|Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer]]'' (1958–1960; starring [[Darren McGavin]])
*''[[Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984 TV series)|Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer]]'' (January 1984–January 1985; starring [[Stacy Keach]])
*''[[Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984 TV series)|The New Mike Hammer]]'' (September 1986–May 1987; starring [[Stacy Keach]])
*''[[Mike Hammer, Private Eye]]'' (September 1997–June 1998; starring [[Stacy Keach]])

===Comics===
[[File:Mikehammer13154.jpg|right|thumb|410px|[[Mickey Spillane]], Ed Robbins and Joe Gill's ''From the Files of... Mike Hammer'' (January 31, 1954).]]
A short-lived [[comic strip]] starring Mike Hammer was distributed by Phoenix Features Syndicate from 1953 to 1954. It was entitled ''From the Files of... Mike Hammer'' and written by Spillane, Ed Robbins and Joe Gill, with art by Ed Robbins. Collections of the strip were published in the 1980s.<ref>Walker, ThrillingDetective.com, "[http://www.thrillingdetective.com/hammer.html#anchor1475467 Comic Strip]"</ref>

In 1956 the Turkish comics artist [[Oğuz Aral]] created a parody of Mike Hammer titled ''Hayk Mammer''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/a/aral-oguz.htm|title = Oğuz Aral}}</ref>

[[Walt Kelly]] wrote two parodies of Mike Hammer first published in collections of original work of his [[Pogo (comic strip)|Pogo]] comic strip. They were: "The Bloody Drip - by Mucky Spleen" (Uncle Pogo So-so Stories, 1953) and "Gore Blimey - The Bloody Drip Writhes Again " (Pogo Peek-A-Book, 1955).

In 2013 [[Hermes Press]] reprinted the complete "Mike Hammer" comic strip, with a special introduction by Max Collins.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hermes Press opens THE FILES OF MIKE HAMMER|url=http://www.comiclist.com/index.php/news/hermes-press-opens-the-files-of-mike-hammer|publisher=Comiclist.com|access-date=11 September 2013}}</ref>

In 2018, [[Titan Comics]] published a four part "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" comic series, written by [[Max Allan Collins]] with artwork by Marcelo Salaza and Marcio Freire. Later that same year, these four issues were collected as the graphic novel ''Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer: The Night I Died''.

===Audio===
* '''Radio Series''' - A December 1952 to October 1954 [[Mutual Broadcasting System]] radio series titled ''That Hammer Guy'' starred [[Larry Haines]] then George Petrie and Ted DeCorsia as Mike Hammer and [[Jan Miner]] as Hammer's secretary Velda and the voice of other female characters on the show.  It was written by Ed Adamson and was directed by Richard Lewis.
* '''Audiobooks''' - An array of Spillane's novels have been produced as audiobooks. Several of these are performed by [[Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984 TV series)|Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer]] veteran Stacy Keach. Examples include ''[[Black Alley]]'' (Penguin Audio, 1996), ''[[The Big Kill]]'' (Simon & Schuster, 2010) and ''[[The Killing Man]]'' (Simon & Schuster, 2010). Also, in 2015, Simon & Schuster released the unabridged version of [https://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-Thrillers/I-the-Jury-Audiobook/B011J58AAG ''I, The Jury''], narrated by Mike Dennis.
* '''Blackstone Audio Productions''' - In 2008, [[Stacy Keach]] reprised the role of Mike Hammer in the first of a series of radio-style dramas entitled ''The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer''. Keach refers to the production style, that is somewhere between an audiobook and radio drama, as a "radio novel."<ref name="blog.blackstoneaudio.com">{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20170118034259/http://supportforgames.com/ Support for Games]}}</ref> {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20170118034259/http://supportforgames.com/ Article title]}} [[Audie Awards|Audie]]-nominated inaugural production features the episodes, ''Dangerous Days'' and ''Oil and Water''. Both were written exclusively for audio by M.J. Elliott and produced with a full cast, music and sound effects in radio drama style by Carl Amari of Falcon Picture Group, who personally selected Elliott to script the Audie Award-nominated dramas. Volume 2 of the series was released in 2009, featuring a 2.5 hour story entitled ''The Little Death''. The story was written exclusively for audio by [[Max Allan Collins]] from a story by [[Mickey Spillane]] and [[Max Allan Collins]]. Volume 3, ''Encore for Murder'', was released in March 2011. All three volumes have been released by [[Blackstone Audio]] and star Keach in the title role. Keach also arranges and performs the music featured in the productions<ref name="blog.blackstoneaudio.com"/> and his wife, [[Malgosia Tomassi]], portrays yoga instructor Maya Ricci.