Mark Verheiden
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Mark Verheiden is an American television, movie, and comic book writer. He currently writes for the Battlestar Galactica TV-series, as well as a new project with Bruce Campbell called My Name is Bruce. Verheiden has also contributed to scripts for The Mask, Timecop and the Smallville television-show. He is also the executive producer of the latter.
He is also a well-respected comic book writer, and he has written stories featuring popular icons like The Phantom, Aliens, and Superman.
His Phantom stories featured in a 13 issue maxi-series from DC Comics (following a 4 issue Peter David written mini-series) took up real world issues, such as poisoning, illegal weapon trading, racism, and toxic dumping. The stories usually took a more psychological approach than the Lee Falk written comic strips. Luke McDonnell was the regular artist.
A character in Alien vs. Predator (film) was named after him. He was played by Tommy Flanagan.
