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.

Comics, Comics Culture, Greg Hatcher

Annual Inventory… Final Edition

By Greg Hatcher January 6, 2018 January 6, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"6

The last-ever look at Hatcher’s comics pull list.

Greg Hatcher, Mystery and Mayhem, Obituaries

R.I.P. Sue Grafton

By Greg Hatcher December 29, 2017 January 6, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"7

We lost one of the great American mystery writers last night.

Greg Hatcher

A’Caroling We Will Go

By Greg Hatcher December 23, 2017 December 23, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"18

Despite my loathing of Christmas, I have a soft spot for Scrooge– and even more for the various Scrooge knockoffs.

Greg Hatcher, Science Fiction, TV

The Case For DISCOVERY

By Greg Hatcher December 15, 2017 September 28, 2019 itemprop="discussionURL"14

A lot of old-school Trek fans seem to really, really hate Star Trek Discovery. As it happens, I’m an old-school Trek fan myself and I like it better than any of the new Trek shows in the last twenty-some years. Here’s why.