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Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson

Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson [1]
Major Malcolm
Wheeler-Nicholson

1890-1968

In the fall of 1934, Major Wheeler-Nicholson founded National Allied Publications and published New Fun #1, the first comic book containing all-original material. The magazine was retitled More Fun in 1936. Wheeler-Nicholson added a second magazine, New Comics, in 1935, which became New Adventure Comics with issue 12 and finally Adventure Comics with #32. The third and final title published under his aegis was Detective Comics, premiering in 1937. Inducted 2009


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