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| | Micky Spillane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Mickey Spillane (1918-) In 1946a comic-book writer needed $1,000 to buy land for a house, so he wrote I, the Jury in three weeks. |
 | | Spillane is best-known for his early novels, which reflect the gestalt of the Cold War in the U.S., and for his unabashed self-promotion, which made him a public figure. |
 | | The latter brings together the emphases of the early Spillane: the enemy is the Communist Party and, secondarily, all large organizations, all large cities such as New York, and all bad weather. |
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