- 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.
- An unsung visionary in comic book history, who not only founded DC Comics, but brought his pulp-style storytelling to the comic book format, shifting the medium away from funny newspaper comic strips toward more exciting adventure tales. Not merely a publisher, Wheeler-Nicholson penned many comic scripts himself, largely uncredited.
- Briefly operated a newspaper syndicate, Wheeler-Nicholson, Inc., which published comic strips, political cartoons, and articles from 1925-1926, but couldn't compete in the publishing market and returned to writing stories for pulp magazines.
- Had five children: Antoinette, Marianne, Malcolm, Douglas, and Diane.
- Author of non-fiction military and political books and articles, as well as semi-autobiographical pulp adventures and comic book stories, from the 1920s-1950s.
- 2008 Judges' Choice inductee into the Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Hall of Fame.
- Grandfather of actress Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, the daughter of his son Douglas.
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