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Maj. Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Wheeler-Nicholson "Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (January 7, 1890 – September 21, 1965) was an American pulp magazine writer and entrepreneur who pioneered the American comic book, publishing the first such periodical consisting solely of original material rather than reprints of newspaper comic strips. Long after his departure from the comic book company he founded, Wheeler-Nicholson's National Allied Publications would evolve into DC Comics, one of the U.S.'s two largest comic book publishers along with rival Marvel Comics."

• B-59 said:

  Another photo of him ran in the Askov American. [volume], March 16, 1922, Image 7 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89064914/1922-03-16/ed-... From wikipedia: "The Major's public criticism of Army command in an open letter to President Warren G. Harding, and his accusations against senior officers, led to countercharges, hearings, and a lawsuit against West Point Superintendent General Fred W. Sladen. Wheeler-Nicholson also was a victim of a shooting that his family called an Army-sanctioned assassination attempt. It left him hospitalized with a bullet wound. Following this, Wheeler-Nicholson in June 1922 was convicted in a court-martial trial of violating the 96th Article of War in publishing the open letter. Although he was not demoted, his career was dead-ended."