While other hardboiled heroes bend and manipulate the law, Hammer often views it as an impediment to justice, the one virtue he holds in absolute esteem. Spillane admitted to pulp writer Carroll John Daly, generally regarded as the inventor of the hard-boiled private eye figure, that Hammer was also loosely modeled on Race Williams, Daly's most frequently used detective character.
In The Big Kill, Hammer describes himself to a bargirl as a misanthrope. While pulp detectives such as Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe are hard-boiled and cynical, Hammer is in many ways the archetypal " hard man": brutally violent, and fueled by a genuine rage against violent crime that never afflicts Raymond Chandler's or Dashiell Hammett's heroes. Unable to sell the project as a comic, he reworked the story as the novel I, the Jury, converting Mike Danger to Mike Hammer and supporting character Holly to Velda. In 1946, Spillane, an established comic-book writer, worked with illustrator Mike Roy and Edwin Robbins to create the private-eye character Mike Danger for proposed comic-book or comic-strip publication. Hammer was a World War II army veteran who spent two years fighting jungle warfare in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II against Japan. Hammer's best friend is Pat Chambers, Captain of Homicide NYPD. His love for his secretary Velda is outweighed only by his willingness to kill a killer. 45 M1911A1 in a shoulder holster under his left arm. Hammer is a no-holds-barred private investigator who carries a Colt. Hammer debuted in the 1947 book I, the Jury. Michael Hammer is a fictional character created by the American author Mickey Spillane. Stacy Keach (TV movies, TV series, audio drama) Mickey Spillane (series continued by Max Allan Collins after Spillane's death) I, the Jury (1947) (first novel by Mickey Spillane)
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