“McGavin had several things going for him,” they add. But revisiting these black and white adventures - or seeing them for the first time - reveals a high degree of pulp artistry and a particularly memorable star turn from Darren McGavin as one of the best screen Hammers. He brought humor to Mike Hammer without compromising either the brutality or the vengeance-seeking ways of Spillane’s famous private eye … Hammer’s debut was greeted with the same critical enthusiasm as his large screen ones a critical hammering. Traylor say of the show, “It would take Darren McGavin’s affable tough guy to make Hammer palatable to TV audiences in the late 1950s. In their book Mickey Spillane on Screen, authors Max Allan Collins and James L. The show ran for two seasons from 1958 to 1959 and a total of 78 episodes and garnered a strong audience following. Next up on the series front for McGavin was Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, the private detective that, besides being featured in Spillane’s novels and short stories, had been on the big screen in I, the Jury (1953), Kiss Me Deadly (1955) and My Gun is Quick (1957).
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