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

Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #6: Sickbed, with Links

By Greg Hatcher October 21, 2017 October 29, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"2

The promised bookscouting column is coming, but in the meantime, you might enjoy these items of interest.

Books, Greg Hatcher

Backroads Bookscouting: Old Portland

By Greg Hatcher October 8, 2017 January 29, 2018 itemprop="discussionURL"11

ROAD TRIP! On the thinnest of business excuses, Julie and I inflated a brief meeting into three days of goofing off.

Comics, Greg Hatcher

Rebirth Pains

By Greg Hatcher October 1, 2017 October 1, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"32

Every time DC comics reinvents itself, I’m hoping it’ll be one of the GOOD ones. Like Superman and Batman in 1971, or Swamp Thing and the Titans in the 1980s, or Starman and the JLA in the 1990s. So what about the latest run at it, REBIRTH?

Greg Hatcher

Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #5: Randomized

By Greg Hatcher September 17, 2017 September 17, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"8

A little of this, a little of that. Celebrity deaths, demon hounds, and amazingly, some good news in the midst of it all.

Comics, Greg Hatcher, Obituaries

R.I.P. Len Wein

By Greg Hatcher September 10, 2017 November 12, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"6

We lost one of the greats today.

Greg Hatcher

Finding the On-Ramp

By Greg Hatcher September 3, 2017 September 3, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"29

Is the first installment of a series always the best place to start? Actually, almost never, in my experience.

Greg Hatcher

My Favorite Things: Six, Sixteen, and Today

By Greg Hatcher August 27, 2017 August 27, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"32

Every so often someone sends me one of those pop culture survey-list things that I realize might make for an entertaining column. So I use this space to answer it. In this particular case, it was “favorites.”