I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.
I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.
Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.
I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.
Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.
Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.
My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.
Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.
Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.
I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.
Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.
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