The hard-boiled private detective genre was a part of American popular entertainment for most of the 20th century. But it was during the middle years of the century, starting with Mike Hammer, created as Mike Danger by former comic book writer Mickey Spillane (who worked mostly for Marvel) that it achieved its greatest impact,with hard-boiled dicks in movies, on TV, in paperback books, and wherever else popular entertainment was purveyed. In comic books, they included Archie Comics'' Sam Hill; Lev Gleason''s Dan Turner, whose series ran in Crime Does Not Pay; and this one, Ken Shannon, who first appeared in the December, 1950 issue (#103) of Quality Comics'' long-running Police Comics...