Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson

Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (née Strain; January 7, 1890 – September 21, 1965) was an American pulp magazine writer, entrepreneur and military officer who pioneered the American comic book, publishing the first such periodical consisting solely of original material rather than reprints of newspaper comic strips. Historian and author David Hajdu credits Wheeler-Nicholson as "the link between the pulps and what we know of as comics today." He launched the magazine comics company National Allied Publications in 1935, which would evolve to become DC Comics, one of the United States' two largest comic book publishers along with rival Marvel Comics.

Biography

Early life and military career Malcolm was born on January 7, 1890,

Wheeler-Nicholson "gave up on the world of commerce thereafter and went back to writing war stories and critiques of the American military" Antoinette married on April 11, 1945, when Wheeler-Nicholson and his wife lived in Great Neck, New York, on Long Island.

In 1923, their second child, daughter Marianne, was born. son Douglas in 1928, and daughter Diane in 1932. Douglas married on September 2, 1955, by which time Wheeler-Nicholson and his wife were living in Bayside, Queens, New York City. The major died on September 21, 1965, in New York City and was buried at Nassau Knolls Cemetery in Port Washington, New York.

Legacy Wheeler-Nicholson was a 2008 Judges' Choice inductee into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame.

Works Modern Cavalry: Studies on Its Role in the Warfare of To-day with Notes on Training for War Service (Macmillan, 1922) Battle Shield of the Republic (Macmillan, 1940) America Can Win (Macmillan, 1941) Are We Winning the Hard Way? (Crowell Publishing, 1943) The Texas-Siberia Trail: Adventure stories of Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (Off-Trail Publications, 2014) edited by John Locke, introduction by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's Pulp Comics (2018, ), Hermes Press, by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson