Rags Morales is the artist of Action Comics, part of the new DC 52! Rags is best known for his work on Identity Crisis, Countdown to Infinite Crisis, Batman Confidential, Hawkman, Turok Dinosaur Hunter and Forgotten Realms. Morales is the co-creator, along with Brian Augustyn, of the 1990s version of Black Condor.

Morales is a 1988 graduate of The Kubert School. His first pro work was pencilling 19 issues of Forgotten Realms with writer Jeff Grubb as part of the TSR line of books for DC Comics. Following Forgotten Realms, Morales co-created and pencilled Black Condor.

Morales left DC Comics to do work for Valiant Comics, including Turok, Archer & Armstrong and Geomancer. He also did some licensed work on a Sliders comic book, and work for Wizards of the Coast. 

He returned to his TSR roots, doing work for Dungeons and Dragons magazines and novella work for Harper Collins, such as Isaac Asimov's Robotics and pen and ink work for Margaret Weis' Testament of the Dragon. Morales made the jump back to DC to work on Hourman, followed by Hawkman with writer Geoff Johns.

After Hawkman, DC and writer Brad Meltzer, who were impressed with the quality of his work, offered Morales the limited series Identity Crisis.Following Identity Crisis, Rags worked on Nightwing, Superman/Batman and Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps. Currently Rags is working with writer Grant Morrison on the DC NEW 52 relaunch of Action Comics.