Mark Verheiden is an American television, movie, and comic book writer. He currently is co-executive producer and writer for the Battlestar Galactica TV series, and has written the screenplay for a feature film project with Bruce Campbell called My Name is Bruce. Verheiden has also contributed to scripts for the feature films The Mask, Timecop and for the Smallville television-show. He was also supervising, then co-executive producer for Smallville during the first three seasons.
Verheiden was also the creator/writer and supervising producer on the ABC television series Timecop, and consulting producer on the UPN series The Strip.
He is also a well-respected comic book writer, and he has written stories featuring popular icons like The Phantom, Aliens, and Superman.
His introduction into comics was The American, published by Dark Horse Comics.
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 the film Alien vs. Predator was named after him. He was played by Tommy Flanagan.
In 2007, Verheiden began work on the live-action screenplay for Teen Titans for Warner Bros., and Ark at Sony Pictures.
