Spillane's influence is clearly seen in Frank Miller's Sin
City and Hardboiled and, I think, also in his Batman and
Elektra, even though they get their inspiration largely from
some other sources.
Spillane had some imitators already in the fifties and he
even helped publish some (Charlie Wells, wasn't it?). Someone
else here knows more about this than I do.
The Mack Bolan type of books certainly carry Spillane's
influence, all through to the crappy plots. (I'm not very
fond of Spillane and find him to be the most boring of
hardboiled classics, with Carroll John Daly excepted.) But
Mack Bolans have been very influential and they are still
being written as a housename and even as we speak bthey reed
new writers into many different genres. I would call that
influence.
Juri
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