Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (January 4, 1890 – January 1, 1968) was an American pulp magazine writer and entrepreneur who pioneered the American comic book, publishing the first such periodical consisting solely of original material rather than reprints of newspaper comic strips. His comic book company, National Allied Publications, would evolve into DC Comics, one of the world's two largest comic book publishers, though long after its founde...
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Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (January 4, 1890 – January 1, 1968) was an American pulp magazine writer and entrepreneur who pioneered the American comic book, publishing the first such periodical consisting solely of original material rather than reprints of newspaper comic strips. His comic book company, National Allied Publications, would evolve into DC Comics, one of the world's two largest comic book publishers, though long after its founder had left it.
He was a 2008 Judges' Choice inductee into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was born in Greenville, Tennessee His father, whose surname was Strain, died in 1894, after the birth of his second son, Malcolm's brother Christopher Another sibling, a sister, died in 1894, when Malcolm was four. Their mother, Antoinette Wheeler, afterward moved to New York City, became a journalist, and later joined a start-up women's magazine in Portland, Oregon By this time she had changed her last name to "Straham"...
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