Douglas "Doug" Moench (born 1948) is an American comic book writer, probably best known for his Batman work and as the creator of Moon Knight.
Doug Moench was born on February 23, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois. Married to Debra, with a son (Derek), Moench has in addition to his prolific comics writing also written novels, short stories, newspaper feature articles, weekly newspaper comic strips, film screenplays, and teleplays. His first published wor...
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Douglas "Doug" Moench (born 1948) is an American comic book writer, probably best known for his Batman work and as the creator of Moon Knight.
Doug Moench was born on February 23, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois. Married to Debra, with a son (Derek), Moench has in addition to his prolific comics writing also written novels, short stories, newspaper feature articles, weekly newspaper comic strips, film screenplays, and teleplays. His first published work was My Dog Sandy, a comic strip printed in his elementary school newspaper. He began his professional writing career reviewing films and music for the Chicago Sun-Times; once he made the shift to comics, he moved to New York City. He currently lives in Pennsylvania.
Over the years Moench has worked for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics and many other smaller companies; he has written hundreds of issues of many different comics, and created dozens of characters, such as Moon Knight. In 1973 Moench became the de facto lead writer for...
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