The Automag in Popular Culture
- Mack Bolan of The Executioner (book series) carried a .44 Automag he named "Big Thunder" in his war against the Mafia
- In 1983 the Auto Mag pistol was featured in the fourth Dirty Harry movie, Sudden Impact. Clint Eastwood's character Harry Callahan uses his .44 Auto Mag pistol to kill Mick the Rapist after Harry loses his Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolver in a fist fight.
- In 1987 the Eddie Murphy movie Beverly Hills Cop II featured the .44 Auto Mag and the spent cartridge cases as a plot device to locate the Alphabet Bandit.
- The weapon of Mizuho Inada in the manga version of Battle Royale is a .44 Automag.
- In 2009's Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony it is used by the main character Luis Lopez.
- The Warlord comic series hero Travis Morgan recovers a .44 Automag from his downed Blackbird and carries it for most of his adventure in Skartaris.
- In A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane, the protagonist, private detective Patrick Kenzie, uses an Automag pistol as his main firearm throughout the book.
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