Mark Verheiden (born March 26, 1956) is an American television, movie, and comic-book writer.

Commencing in the same year, his Phantom stories featured in a 13-issue maxi-series from DC Comics (following a four-issue Peter David-written miniseries) and took on 'real-world issues', such as poisoning, illegal weapon trading, racism, and toxic dumping.

In 2007, Verheiden began work on the live-action screenplay for a Teen Titans film for Warner Bros., as well as an adaptation of his own Ark (written for Dark Horse Presents in the mid-1990s) with Sony Pictures.

[3] Verheiden was a writer and executive producer on NBC's short-lived 2014–15 series Constantine based on the Vertigo/DC Hellblazer comic.

In 2020, HBO announced the development of a Hellraiser television series[5] with Verheiden attached as writer and executive producer.

Verheiden wrote "Rebirth", the first regular-series episode of Caprica, the prequel to Battlestar Galactica.

In 2010, Verheiden joined the staff of new TNT television series Falling Skies as writer and co-executive producer.