Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was born on January 7, 1890. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About 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.