Author: Greg Hatcher

Greg has been writing for one outlet or another since 1992. He was a contributing editor at WITH magazine for over a decade and during that time was a three-time winner of the Higher Goals Award for children's writing; once for fiction and twice for non-fiction. Following that, he did a weekly column for Comic Book Resources as one of the rotating features on the Comics Should Be Good! blog for eleven years, before moving on to this current gig at Atomic Junk Shop. He also teaches writing in the Young Authors classes offered as part of the YMCA's Afterschool Arts Program in west Seattle, for students in the 6th through the 12th grade. A fan of pulp fiction ever since he discovered the Doc Savage paperback reprints from Bantam Books in the 1970s, he has contributed a number of action-adventure stories to various 'new pulp' anthologies in recent years. Likewise a lifelong mystery fan, he has also written Nero Wolfe pastiches for the Wolfe Pack Gazette and several Sherlock Holmes adventures for the Airship 27 CONSULTING DETECTIVE series. He lives in Burien, Washington, with his wife Julie, their cat Magdalene, and ten thousand books and comics.

Comics, Greg Hatcher

DC’s Second Golden Age

By Greg Hatcher September 19, 2020 September 19, 2020 12

When comics fans talk about “DC Rebirth,” they mean the branding from a couple of years back. But whenever I hear the expression, I always think of a different time from decades ago.

Books, Comics, Greg Hatcher

It’s Not Just You

By Greg Hatcher September 5, 2020 September 6, 2020 4

Occasionally people say to me that my columns cost them money. Well… they cost me money too.

Greg Hatcher

My Own Weird Hero

By Greg Hatcher August 30, 2020 September 6, 2020 7

A pause in the reminiscence about DC Comics… to tell you about a newly-published story of mine that DC inspired. Kinda.

Greg Hatcher

My Golden Age Was 8…. No, Wait, It Was 13… No, It Was….

By Greg Hatcher August 23, 2020 September 3, 2020 12

As many comics fans and professionals alike are speculating about the latest DC Implosion, and WHAT IT ALL MEANS, I got to reminiscing about the comics publisher that literally shaped the course of my life.