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Every Hero comes out of Darkness into the Light
Today is the 127th anniversary of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson’s birth. He was born in Greenville, Tennessee January 7th 1890. The year ahead is going to be productive for the Major. Besides working on his biography I’m pleased to announce that Dan Herman of...
Buffalo Soldiers
“His eye roved over the bare mesa and out to where quivering heat waves distorted the outlines of the distant hills, huge, angular masses of scarified rock, the slag and clinkers of some ancient volcanic blaze uprearing tortured pinnacles and twisted turrets to...
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...
