MURRAY, Will

   Working name of US writer William Patrick Murray (1953-), who has shown an interest throughout his career in pulp SUPERHEROES like DOC SAVAGE, about which figure he wrote the nonfiction Secrets of Doc Savage (1981 chap); as Kenneth ROBESON he began a new sequence of Doc Savage adventures comprisingPython Isle * (1991), White Eyes* (1992), The Frightened Fish* (1992), The Jade Ogre* (1992), Flight into Fear* (1993), The WhistlingWraith* (1993) and The Forgotten Realm* (1993). Under his own name he ed The Duende History of the Shadow Magazine (anth 1980). Writing as Warren MURPHY (whom see for titles) and/or Richard SAPIR, he has written many volumes of the Destroyer sequence, including all those from \#74 to date (although forthcoming titles will, it seems, be by yet other hands).

   JC