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

Sherlockin’

By Greg Hatcher November 1, 2020 November 1, 2020 itemprop="discussionURL"1

A little Sherlockian self-promotion.

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Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #20: Crossing Items Off the List

By Greg Hatcher October 18, 2020 October 18, 2020 itemprop="discussionURL"7

Yet another collection of bits and pieces that in and of themselves aren’t enough to rate a column, but nevertheless are worth a mention. Mostly things I’ve been meaning to get to for years now: New mysteries and old, a couple of oddball movies, and a TV show I’ve procrastinated on for about three decades.

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Mistakes Were Made

By Greg Hatcher October 11, 2020 October 11, 2020 itemprop="discussionURL"17

I buy a lot of books. Sometimes, well, I end up with something I wish I hadn’t.

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Late To The Party #2: My Week With Warren

By Greg Hatcher October 4, 2020 October 4, 2020 itemprop="discussionURL"5

A bunch of comics I’ve been kind of meaning to get to for about four decades now, all from Warren.

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DC’s Second Golden Age

By Greg Hatcher September 19, 2020 September 19, 2020 itemprop="discussionURL"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.