Doug Moench

Douglas 'Doug' Moench (born February 23, 1948 in Chicago , Illinois) is an American writer (screenplays, comics , novels ) and journalist .

Work as a journalist

As a journalist, Moench has written for magazines such as Adam , Knight , Fling and Man to Man , and above all for the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper . He was mainly active as a reviewer and interviewer for films and musical works. In this role he interviewed bands such as The Who , The Monkees and The Seeds . At the end of the 1970s, Moench ended his career in Chicago and went to New York as a freelance writer and later to Pennsylvania.

Work as an author

Moench's artistic work includes novels, short stories, teleplays and scripts. So he wrote the scripts for the television series Mighty Mouse in the early 1980s, for which he was recognized by Wall Street Magazine and Time Magazine , and the novel adaptation of the film "Planet of the Apes" (Planet of the Apes: The Official Adaption, ISBN 978-0944735732 ).

Moench's best-known work, however, is his work as an author of comic stories about the superhero character Batman : From 1983 to 1986 and from 1992 to 1998 he was the regular author of the monthly comic series Batman (and from 1983 to 1986 he was also the regular author of the second Main Batman series Detective Comics ) the abbot adventure over the well-known criminal hunter disguised as a fearsome bat creature. The anniversary edition # 500 of the Batman series (1993) written by Moench is one of the best-selling comic books ever with more than 7 million copies sold (without reprints in translations and in anthologies with other issues) and made Moench, who received a considerable royalty for this edition becoming one of the wealthiest writers in the United States.

Other well-known comic series that Moench temporarily supervised were Catwoman , Conan , Fantastic Four , James Bond , Hulk , Moon Knight , Thor, Vampirella , Mister Miracle and Ghost Rider .

Frequent artistic collaborators of Moench in the past were the draftsmen Jim Aparo , Kelley Jones and Paul Gulacy , as well as the ink pen John Beatty . With each of the above, he worked in particular on countless Batman stories.

The fictional character invented by Moench includes the superhero Moon Knight for Marvel Comics , as well as numerous permanent characters from the Batman universe, such as the grubby police officer Harvey Bullock, the gang leader Black Mask and the drug addict terrorist Bane .

Today Moench lives in Pennsylvania with his wife Debra and his dog Rusty.

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Moench has received various awards for his work as a comic book author. He received the Eagle, the World Fantasy Award , the Diamond Gemstone, the Inkpot, the Eisner. In 1978 he received the British Fantasy Award for Weirdworld: Marvel Premiere # 38 .

As a journalist he received the Chicago Newspaper Guild Award in 1972. As a screenwriter, the series "The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse", which he wrote, was nominated by Times as one of the ten best TV series in 1987, while the Wall Street Journal nominated the series as the best of Year.

Works

comics

DC Comics

• Arion, Lord of Atlantis # 4-11
• Batman # 0, 360-400, 481-559, 1,000,000 and Annual # 10, 12, 13, 17-21
• Batman: Blackgate: Isle of Men
• Batman: Bloodstorm (Elseworld)
• Batman: Book of the Dead # 1-2
• Batman: Brotherhood of the Bat
• Batman: Cataclysm # 1 (partially; paperback reprint of individual stories)
• Batman Chronicles # 1-3 (partially)
• Batman: Crimson Mist (Elseworld)
• Batman: Dark Joker: The Wild (Elseworld)
• Batman & Dracula: Red Rain (Elseworld)
• Batman: Haunted Gotham # 1-4 (Elseworld)
• Batman: Hong Kong
• Batman: Knight Gallery
• Batman: Outlaws # 1-3
• Batman vs. Predator II: Bloodmatch # 1-4
• Batman / Spawn: War Devil (with Chuck Dixon and Alan Grant)
• The Big Book of Conspiracies
• The Big Book of The Unexplained
• Blackhawk , 2nd series, # 12-16
• Catwoman # 0, 25, 38-55
• Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham # 1-2 (Elseworlds)
• Celebrate the Century Super Heroes Stamp Album # 1
• COPS # 1-15
• The DC Challenge # 3
• Detective Comics # 526-566
• Electric Warrior # 1-18
• Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion # 11
• GI Combat # 163
• Green Arrow , 2nd series, # 86
• Green Lantern Corps Quarterly # 1-2
• Green Lantern: Dragon Lord # 1-3
• Heroes against hunger
• House of Mystery # 216, 228, 244, 253
• House of Secrets # 113
• Legends of the Dark Knight # 11-15, 46-49, 86-88, 137-141, 146-148
• Lords of the Ultra-Realm # 1-6, Special # 1 (co-created by Moench and Pat Boderick)
• Mister Miracle Volume 2 # 14-28
• The Omega Men # 17-20, 22, 23, 25 and Annual # 1
• Our Army at War Featuring Sgt. Rock # 271
• The Sandkings (adaptation after George RR Martin)
• Showcase '93 # 1-12
• Slash Maraud # 1-6
• The Specter volume 2 # 1-31, Annual # 1
• SCI Spy # 1-6
• Teen Titans Spotlight # 12
• The Wanderers # 1-13
• World's Finest Comics # 289-292
• Xenobrood # 0, 1-6

Marvel Comics

• Adventures into Fear # 25-28
• Adventures on the Planet of the Apes # 1-11
• Astonishing Tales # 25-27, 30-31
• Bizarre Adventures # 26, 28, 33
• Captain Marvel # 56, 58-62
• Chamber of Chills # 7
• Conan the Barbarian: The Skull of Set Graphic Novel
• Conan Saga # 17, 33, 36 (basically reprints of The Savage Sword of Conan)
• Creatures on the Loose featuring Man-Wolf # 30-31
• Deadly Hands of Kung Fu # 3-14, 16-18, 29, 33, Special # 1 (black and white magazine featuring Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu)
• The Deep (comic book adaptation of the Columbia Pictures movie)
• Doc Savage # 1-8 (1976 black and white magazine)
• Dracula Lives! # 2-3, 5-6, 8-12
• Epic Illustrated # 3, 5, 9, 11-13, 33 (numerous short fantasy stories and a Weirdworld serial, in a color anthology magazine)
• Fantastic Four # 219, 222-231, Annual # 15
• The Frankenstein Monster # 12-17
• Ghost Rider volume 2 # 5
• Giant-Size Chillers # 1
• Giant-Size Master of Kung-Fu # 1-4
• Giant Size Werewolf # 2-5
• Godzilla: King of the Monsters # 1-24
• The Haunt of Horror # 2-5, 12
• The Hulk! # 10-22 (printed in magazine format in "Super Marvel Color")
• The Incredible Hulk Annual # 9
• Inhumans volume 1 # 1-8, 10-12
• The Island of Dr. Moreau (comic book adaptation of the American International film)
• Ka-Zar: Lord of the Hidden Jungle (1974 series) # 10-20
• King Conan # 9-15
• Kull the Conqueror (volume 1) 16-20, (1982 mini-series) # 2
• Kull and the Barbarians # 3 (black and white magazine)
• Legion of Monsters # 1
• Marvel Classics Comics # 13, 16, 19, 21, 22, 25, 27, 29-30, 32-36 (adaptations of classic novels)
• Marvel Comics Presents # 1-8, 26-35 (featuring Shang Chi, Master of Kung Fu in the first run and Coldblood in the second)
• Marvel Fanfare # 24-26 (featuring Weirdworld)
• Marvel Premiere # 17-19, 38, 41, 61 (# 38 features Weirdworld, # 41 Seeker 3000, # 61 Star-Lord)
• Marvel Preview # 1, 5-6, 8, 12-13, 18, 21-22, 26, 28, 33 (black & white magazine; # 5-6 adapt the Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskervilles, # 8 features the Legion of Monsters, # 12 is The Haunt of Horror a collection of short Horror stories)
• Marvel Spotlight (1971 series) # 28-29 (featuring Moon Knight)
• Marvel Spotlight (1979 series) # 1-3,6,7 (# 1-3 feature Captain Marvel, # 6-7 feature Star Lord)
• Marvel Super Action # 1 (first Weirdworld story)
• Marvel Super Special # 10-13 (# 10 features Star-Lord, # 11-13 feature Weirdworld)
• Marvel Two-in-One Annual # 6
• (The Hands of) Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu # 20-63, 65-120, 122, Annual # 1
• Master of Kung Fu: Hellfire Apocalypse # 1-6 (Marvel MAX)
• Monsters of the Movies # 1, 8
• Monsters Unleashed # 5-11
• Moon Knight volume 1 # 1-15, 17-26, 28-33
• Moon Knight: High Strangers (1999 series) # 1-4
• Moon Knight: The Resurrection (1997 series) # 1-4
• Moon Knight Special Featuring Master of Kung Fu # 1
• Morbius Revisited # 2
• Planet of the Apes # 1-29 (adaptations of the Apes films, plus a handful of original spinoff tales, most notably the ongoing "Terror on the Planet of the Apes" saga)
• Rampaging Hulk # 1-9 (black-and-white magazine format)
• The Return of Shang-Chi Master of Kung Fu: Bleeding Black # 1
• Savage Fists of Kung Fu (black and white magazine)
• Savage Sword of Conan # 5, 9, 13, 14, 180
• Savage Tales (Featuring Conan and Ka-Zar) # 5, 7, 8, 11
• Seeker 3000 # 1
• Shogun Warriors # 1-14, 16-20
• Tales of the Zombie # 2-7, 9, 10, Annual # 1
• The Mighty Thor # 303, 308, 310-322, 324-328
• The Toxic Avenger # 1-11 (based on Troma Films' character)
• Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction # 3, 6
• Vampire Tales # 2, 4-7, 9-11, Annual # 1
• What if? volume 1 # 16
• Werewolf by Night volume 1 # 20-43
• Wolverine: Doombringer # 1
• X-Men Unlimited volume 1 # 25

Eclipse Comics

• Aztec Ace # 1-15
• Nightmares # 1-2 (reprints "Blood on Black Satin", originally published in Eerie # 109-111)
• Miracleman # 14 (backup story: "Nuclear Spring")
• Total Eclipse # 2 ("Aztec Ace" backup story)

Epic Comics

• Six From Sirius # 1-4
• Six from Sirius II # 1-4

Skywald Comics

• Psycho # 5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 16
• Nightmare # 9-12, 14, Annual # 1, Yearbook 1974

Malibu Comics

• Rune: Hearts of Darkness # 1-3
• Terror on the Planet of the Apes # 1-4 (reprints from Marvel's Planet of the Apes magazine)

Dark Horse Comics

• Dark Horse Comics # 25 (James Bond story)
• James Bond: Serpent's Tooth # 1-3

Warren Publishing

• Eerie # 29-30, 35-45, 47, 50, 53-55, 57-58, 72, 78, 109-112
• Creepy # 37, 46-47, 49-54 56-59 64-66 68, 71-72, 76, 80, 82, 88
• Vampirella volume 1 # 7, 9, 14-15, 17-20, 24-29, 31, 34, 39

Books

• Batman Masters Collection (120 trading cards, re-printed as a 208-page book under the title Batman Masterpieces )
• Batgirl: To Dare The Darkness
• Bucky O'Hare

Teleplays

• Double dragon
• The Forensic Files of Batman
• The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse

Web links

• Literature by and about Doug Moench in the catalog of the German National Library
• Doug Moench in the Internet Movie Database (English)