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, Mystery and Mayhem

My Time on West Thirty-Fifth Street

By Greg Hatcher March 31, 2019 April 1, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"10

Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe and I go back a long way.

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Just a Drive-By, Sort-Of Column.

By Greg Hatcher March 24, 2019 March 24, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"4

No real column this week, but here’s a little something to tide you over.

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Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #11: Short Takes

By Greg Hatcher March 9, 2019 March 10, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"5

Once again, some random bits and pieces that aren’t worth a column in and of themselves. Mostly stuff I stumbled across that provoked a memory, humorous things people sent me, and my latest podcast appearance.

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A Wakandan Public Service Announcement, With Footnotes

By Greg Hatcher March 2, 2019 March 2, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"6

Let’s set the record straight about Don McGregor, Jack Kirby, and the Black Panther’s fight with the KKK.

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Another Meme Thing: Right Now!

By Greg Hatcher February 23, 2019 February 23, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"16

Though my usual beat here is old stuff, I DO occasionally check out the current pop culture. Here’s a look at the (mostly) new stuff we have been enjoying.

Books, Greg Hatcher

Judging A Book By Its Cover

By Greg Hatcher February 16, 2019 February 17, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"4

Sometimes the cover’s all you have to go on.

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Symbiosis in the Seventies

By Greg Hatcher February 9, 2019 February 26, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"12

In the long-ago, pre-internet days when I was a kid, the strange recursive feedback loop between comics, paperbacks, and television led me to some odd — but very cool– places.