Author: Greg Hatcher

Prior to his untimely passing in October of 2021, Greg Hatcher was a longtime columnist and author and the primary founder of Atomic Junk Shop; all of the other founding contributors were invited by him. His Author's bio at the time of his death follows. 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.

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More Game Changers

By Greg Hatcher June 7, 2021 June 7, 2021 itemprop="discussionURL"7

Picking up where we left off last week. Reminiscences about personal pop culture tipping points into fandom.

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Game Changers

By Greg Hatcher May 30, 2021 May 31, 2021 itemprop="discussionURL"12

Reminiscing about some first pop culture encounters that proved to be hugely important for me in years to come.

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I Have Questions

By Greg Hatcher May 23, 2021 May 23, 2021 itemprop="discussionURL"22

….most of those questions along the lines of, “Amazon sellers, are you just stupid or are you high?”

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From the Archives: My Real-Life Superhero

By Greg Hatcher April 3, 2021 April 3, 2021 itemprop="discussionURL"3

An old favorite, updated with the real-life sequel that happened after it originally saw print.

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OG Zinesters

By Greg Hatcher March 28, 2021 March 29, 2021 itemprop="discussionURL"19

Fanzines by the pros… from the time before they were pros.

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Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #21: Waiting Room Thoughts

By Greg Hatcher March 19, 2021 March 22, 2021 itemprop="discussionURL"14

Sitting in the doctor’s office. Waiting. Sooner or later they want me to come back to the lab area for yet another blood draw. So I’m sitting and playing with my phone. My mind wanders from one thing to another…

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From the Archives: Hard-Boiled

By Greg Hatcher March 5, 2021 March 6, 2021 itemprop="discussionURL"6

Reprinting one of my favorites, a retrospective about Max Allan Collins and Ms. Tree. Updated with some new material, even.