Back مالكولم وايلير نيتشولسون ARZ Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson Spanish مالکوم ویلر-نیکلسون Persian Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson French 맬컴 휠러니컬슨 Korean Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson Portuguese Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson SIMPLE Malkolm Uiler-Nikolson Uzbek
| Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson | |
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| Born | Malcolm Strain January 7, 1890 Greeneville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | September 21, 1965 (aged 75) New York City, U.S. |
| Area(s) | Publisher |
Notable works | National Allied Publications (now DC Comics) |
| Spouse(s) | Elsa Sachsenhausen Björkbom |
| Children | 5 |
| Relatives | Dana Wheeler-Nicholson (granddaughter) |
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (born Malcolm 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."[1] 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.
- ^ Hajdu in Lovece, Frank (September 27, 2019). "Ahead of New York Comic Con, a look back at the colorful LIer who founded what became DC Comics". Newsday. New York City / Long Island. Archived from the original on October 1, 2019.