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When Worlds Collide
In every good comic book story, there’s a moment when worlds collide, stars line up, and the evil doctor’s death ray machine threatens to blow everyone to hell and back. This is just such a story. Fleisher studios In 1934 my grandfather, Major Malcolm...
Cuba Si! Happy 126th to the Major
Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was born on this day, January 7, 126 years ago. It’s fitting that tomorrow I’m leaving for Miami en route to Cuba retracing some of the steps of my grandparents on their fabled trip to Cuba in 1937. Cuba is one of the...
Happy 125th Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
Happy 125th Birthday to Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, soldier, writer of adventure stories and novels and founder of DC Comics. As one of 20 grandchildren from the five children of our grandfather, the Major and our grandmother, Elsa, how did I become a...
The Major’s Military Career
DC Comics history and comics history in general has been partially based on anecdotal oral tales told forty years or so later and has become the comic book canon. In speaking about the Major, the stories told of him were by people who had only known him for a...
Comic Strips, the Pulps, Comic Books, and Harry Donenfeld by Francis DiMenno
Editor's note: This is a guest post by Francis DiMenno. Francis DiMenno is a Librarian, Archivist, and long-time comic book aficionado; his Master's thesis on EC Comics can be found here. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/theses/2060/ Thank you Francis! The origin...
SDCC 2013: Super Women and Men
Truth be told I was more than a little worried about taking on Wonder Woman. By that I mean writing about her with any semblance of knowledge, not to mention writing about Trina Robbins, Ramona Fradon and Mary Fleener, three amazing women comics...
