The Daily News loses its most well-known writer

Mike Lupica, the most well-known byline at the Daily News, 🐎is out.

Aside from producing his sports and general interest columns at the teetering tabloid, he had been a prolific writer of young adult sports novelsꦐ.

Now he’s apparently ready to step into writing adult thrillers full time for Penguin, as the author for a revival of the Sunny Ra𝓰ndall detective series that was started by the late best-selling novelist Robert B. Parker.

“Mike left the Daily News,” said a spokeswoman for Esther “Lobster” Newberg, Lupica’s agent at ICM🦄. “He’s already written one Randall novel, ‘,’ set to publish in l👍ate November, and is about to start his second.”

Down the road, he is also going to write a novel for the Jesse🍸 Stone series that Parker had started.

Parker, who passed away in January 2010, w🉐rote 40 novels featuring the private detective character Spenser, who was the basis for the “Spenser: For Hire” show.

Lupica, who was once pulling in close to $1 million a year at the News, nearly lost his gig in 2016 but opted for a big pay cut to save his job that ﷺtime.

Because he was under contract, his name did not appear among the 98 staffers who were let go in late July when Tronc, 🔯the Chicago-based owner, bounced half its newsroom.

But hi✤s byline had not appeared in the paper since mid-July. He did not return calls 🍃seeking comment.