Douglas Murray (born November 1947) is an American comic book writer and novelist. He served as a non-commissioned officer in the Army in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. He worked as a writer for The Monster Times newspaper in the early 1970s, and later as a Marvel Comics writer from 1984 to 1991. He was the main writer on the popular 1980s comic book series The 'Nam, published by Marvel.[1]
In the 1970s, Murray edited Heritage (a 2-issue fanzine dedicated to Flash Gordon), The Neal Adams Index (1974) and two separate ACBA Sketchbook publications (in 1973 and 1975 respectively).[2]
Born and raised in New York, Doug grew up on Long Island in Lindenhurst, New York. He was always a mega-collector of science fiction books, pulps, monster magazines and all sorts of movie memorabilia. He moved to Florida in 1990 and resides there today with his wife Pam (married since November 1979).[2]
Bibliography
The Monster Times various articles in numerous issues (early to mid-1970s)
Heritage 1-A and 1-B (2-issue Flash Gordon fan publication) (1972) publisher/ editor
ACBA Sketchbook (1973) publisher
Neal Adams Index (1974) publisher
ACBA Sketchbook 2 (1975) publisher
Two The Destroyer paperback novels (connected plotwise) (circa 1975)
Reel Fantasy Magazine # 1 (1978)
Savage Tales Magazine Vol. 2, #1 and #4 (1984) each contained a "Nam" prototype story by Doug Murray
^Voger, Mark. The Dark Age: Grim, Great & Gimmicky Post-Modern Comics, Raleigh, North Carolina, TwoMorrows Publishing, January 2006, pp. 31-32. ISBN1893905535
^ abAlex Raymond and Don Moore. Flash Gordon: The Fall Of Ming, Sundays 1941-44. Introductions by Murray and Dave Gibbons. London : Titan Books, 2013. ISBN9780857686886 (p.206).
