Mary Skrenes (/skriːnz/) is an American comic book writer and screenwriter.
For Omega the Unknown, Skrenes created the supporting characters Amber Grant and Dian Wilkins.
She published a number of horror stories for DC under the name Virgil North, and began a long collaboration with Steve Skeates.
[2] Skrenes got her first professional work for DC Comics in the early 1970s, writing horror and romance stories under the tutelage of editor Dick Giordano.
For contractual reasons, she was credited only on Season Two; however, the first issue stated that she had been involved with the series from the beginning.