# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/malcolm-wheeler-nicholson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:43:51.810Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/malcolm-wheeler-nicholson"
name: "Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson"
slug: "malcolm-wheeler-nicholson"
description: "Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson 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."
tagline: "American writer, creator of DC Comics (1890–1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maj._Malcolm_Wheeler_Nicholson_LCCN2014713912.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1890-01-07"
deathDate: "1965-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.648065333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923984/"
    handle:    "nm0923984"
sources:
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    title: "Malkolm Uiler-Nikolson"
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    title: "맬컴 휠러니컬슨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump