- Born
- Died
- Nickname
- The Major
- Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was born on January 7, 1890 in Greeneville, Tennessee, USA. He is known for Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics (2010). He was married to Elsa Sachsenhausen Bjorkböm. He died on September 21, 1965 in New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseElsa Sachsenhausen Bjorkböm(1920 - ?) (5 children)
- Children
- RelativesNicky Wheeler-Nicholson(Grandchild)Dana Wheeler-Nicholson(Grandchild)Finn Andreen(Niece or Nephew)
- American pulp author best known for pioneering comic book publication and founding the company that would later become DC Comics.
- First contracted Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster for comic stories for "New Fun" #6 in 1935 (three years before the debut of Superman in "Action Comics" #1).
- Granddaughter Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, who didn't know her grandfather, began researching the Major in 1997 and became his de facto biographer, writing essays and articles, running a website, touring comic-cons, and presenting his forgotten story to the world.
- Lived in France during the 1920s, but took a hit with the stock market crash of 1929 and returned to New York.
- Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's father's surname was Strain, which was later altered as Straham by his widowed mother, whose maiden name was Wheeler. When his mother remarried, she re-adopted her maiden name and hyphenated it with her husband's surname, Nicholson. Malcolm likewise took on the name Wheeler-Nicholson, and was known as "Nick" to his school friends.
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