Eric Luke (born December 17, 1956, in Palo Alto, California) is an American writer and director, best known for writing the screenplay for Joe Dante's 1985 film Explorers.
[1] Moving to television, he eventually wrote scripts for the Tales from the Cryptkeeper series and co-plotted the Gargoyles pilot five-parter for The Walt Disney Company.
He returned to television to Executive Produce, Story Edit and script the Fox Kids TV animated series Xyber 9, which later aired on the Toon Disney channel.
His initial work in comics was Project: Overkill, a story drawn by artist Phill Norwood that appeared in Dark Horse Presents #30.
After Ghost ended, he moved onto the Wonder Woman series for DC Comics after his initial trial at writing that title's Annual #7 proved successful with editors.