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.

Greg Hatcher

One From The Archives….Trek Therapy

By Greg Hatcher August 8, 2020 August 10, 2020 itemprop="discussionURL"5

Or, why the Hatchers love Captain Pike so much, in all his various incarnations in print and on the screen.

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A Tale of Two TV Producers and How They Switched Places

By Greg Hatcher August 6, 2020 August 7, 2020 itemprop="discussionURL"7

This is the one where all the Star Trek fans show up to yell at me, probably. But hear me out.

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Double-O Thoughts

By Greg Hatcher July 27, 2020 July 29, 2020 itemprop="discussionURL"2

Just goofing around. Thinking Deep Thoughts about James Bond.

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Classics Both Revisited and Reimagined

By Greg Hatcher July 19, 2020 September 6, 2020 itemprop="discussionURL"6

You might say this is another installment of finding the on-ramp, though in this case it started in 2012 and doubled back to 1968.

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First-Year Studies

By Greg Hatcher July 12, 2020 July 23, 2020 itemprop="discussionURL"8

An awful lot of comics have been doing the Year One thing since the 1980s… but not JUST comics. Here are a few you might have missed.

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Appreciating Letty Owings, the Reason I’m Here

By Greg Hatcher June 27, 2020 July 6, 2020 itemprop="discussionURL"10

Her name is Letty Owings, and she has saved a lot of lives. She probably saved my life. Certainly, she’s the reason I’m a published writer… and also why I teach in public school.

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Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #19: I Get Mail

By Greg Hatcher June 14, 2020 June 14, 2020 itemprop="discussionURL"5

Not ALL the books on the to-read pile are the result of my poor impulse control. Sometimes people just send them to me. Here’s the skinny on a couple of good ones.