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6 unusual facts about Max Allan Collins


Black Alley

After his death, one of Spillane's unfinished manuscripts The Goliath Bone was completed by Max Allan Collins and published in 2008.

Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival

The Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival has frequently screened works from mystery writer and director Max Allan Collins.

Chester Gould

The first volume includes the five sample strips that Gould used to sell his strip, followed by over 450 strips showing the series' beginning (from October 1931-May 1933), along with a Gould interview, never previously published, by Max Allan Collins.

Jacques Futrelle

Futrelle is used as the protagonist in The Titanic Murders, a novel about two murders aboard the Titanic, by Max Allan Collins.

John Patrick Looney

Looney served as the model for John Looney, a major character in Max Allan Collins' graphic novel Road to Perdition.

Morgan Conway

Morgan Conway is considered by many (including Dick Tracy writer Max Allan Collins) to be the best screen Dick Tracy.


Ms. Tree

Tree was a comic book series and character co-created by writer Max Allan Collins and the series' artist Terry Beatty.

Walter B. Gibson

In addition, Gibson is the protagonist, along with Orson Welles, in a historical mystery by Max Allan Collins, The War of the Worlds Murder, published by Berkley Books in 2005.


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