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Byline: Mickey Spillane

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Spillane died 07/11/2006...COLLECTORS!! Look for the first HARDCOVER edition. It is a special print run limited to only 250 numbered copies (signed hardcover first editions!). Each signed by Mickey Spillane and Editors Max Allan Collins and Lynn Myers. Included in this volume are two Mike Hammer short stories that later became novels, a long lost Hammer story, the transcript of a Hammer playlet, reproductions of 3 comic books featuring Hammer's predecessors Mike Danger and Mike Lancer and 14 articles written by Spillane of his own high adventures.

We happened to eat dinner in Myrtle Beach one evening at the same time Mickey Spillane was celebrating a birthday in the same restaurant. He seemed like a really likable fellow. I had never read any of his works and thought I'd like to give him a read. "Byline" was the most current available, so I decided to try it. It was not what I expected (I should have read the reviews to find out!), but none the less I still enjoyed it. I was able to sample his writing, learn more about his life, and read some Mike Hammer as well. So I enjoyed the read. But I must say the production quality on the soft-cover was awful. Throughout there were many cases of words that had passed a spell check, but were obviously the wrong word. And one of the comic books included even had the sequence of pages messed up. Just very sloppy editing.Byline: Mickey Spillane