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, The Schoolteacher Diaries

Graduation Day at the Gallery!

By Greg Hatcher April 26, 2017 April 26, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"2

Julie and I don’t have kids of our own, but we do have lots of former students that keep in touch. Here’s some cool news about one of them.

Greg Hatcher, Rummaging & Ruminating

Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #2: The Shelf of Shame

By Greg Hatcher April 22, 2017 September 17, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"11

The books pile up. The to-be-read stack is getting a little high again. And the review pile is just embarrassing.

Greg Hatcher, Movies

Sickbed Salvation Over Spring Break

By Greg Hatcher April 13, 2017 April 14, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"13

Home sick over spring break, I found me some cool Westerns.

Greg Hatcher, Mystery and Mayhem

Movies In Your Mind

By Greg Hatcher April 4, 2017 April 4, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"6

More than just audiobooks, these are full-cast audio dramas– modern ones, not re-issues of old-time radio shows.

Greg Hatcher, TV

The Lost Overture

By Greg Hatcher March 22, 2017 March 23, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"36

It’s not completely dead, but it’s getting there.

I’m talking about the lost art of cool opening credits for a TV show.

Comics Culture, Greg Hatcher

More from Emerald City Con 2017

By Greg Hatcher March 17, 2017 March 17, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"2

Hey, it wasn’t just Burgas representing for the Junk Shop crew. I went too.

Comics, Greg Hatcher

Thinking Good Thoughts for Mr. Len Wein

By Greg Hatcher March 6, 2017 March 7, 2017 itemprop="discussionURL"7

We are asked to send positive vibes to Len Wein. This is easy for me, because of my favorite comics ever when I was a kid, Mr. Wein wrote about a third of them.