Doug Murray (comics)

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.

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).

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).