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Amazon Exclusive Essay: Mickey and Me by Max Allan Collins, Author of The Big Bang
I'm thirteen years old. On a family vacation. Back home, I've been eyeing the lurid covers of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer paperbacks, but I haven't dared a purchase. Here I risk One Lonely Night, with its cover of a mostly nude damsel. "How old are you?" "Sixteen!" "Are you sure?" I throw down 35 cents, and soon am devouring fever-dream prose in back of a Pontiac. I'm eighteen. A senior in high school. I've written three novels in the Spillane style, receiving numerous rejections but also encouragement. I've collected everything of Mickey's I can lay hands on. I have written him perhaps 30 fan letters. He has never responded. I am twenty-two. At the Writers Workshop in Iowa City. My mentor, Richard Yates, encourages my pursuit of smart pulp fiction; others don't. For my thesis on a major American writer, I choose Spillane. When my first novel sells, my Workshop stock rises. I send Mickey the book; he responds, welcoming me to the club. I'm 33. In Milwaukee, I'm asked to liaison between the annual mystery convention (Bouchercon) and special guest Mickey Spillane. Fearful my hero will be a monster, I'm taken to meet him at his hotel room. "Mickey, this is Max Collins, he's..." "I know Max! We been corresponding for years!" I say, "Right Mickey--one letter from you, one hundred letters from me." We are immediate friends. Soon I'm sitting in his outdoor bar in South Carolina, where he flirts with a pretty neighbor named Jane. She's gonna be the next Mrs. Spillane, Mickey predicts. He's right, as usual. I am 45. I'm in Florida for the launch of the Mike Danger comic book that Mickey and I have developed. My wife and I are walking along the beach. Ahead of us are two kids--Mickey Spillane, 77, and Nathan Collins, 11. Mickey and Nate are teasing each other, Mickey bumping into him, Nate bumping back. They are laughing and it echoes off the water--hear it? -Max Allan Collins(Photo © Bamford Studio)
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