Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson is the granddaughter of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, military intelligence officer, prolific pulp writer, inventor and founder of DC Comics.
The year 2020 will be the 130th anniversary of the Major’s birth and the 85th of New Fun #1 (1935), the first DC comic and the first “Golden Age” comic to feature all new material. DC Comics is publishing a reprint of New Fun #1 which will be out in January, 2020 with Nicky contributing.
Her book DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson’s Pulp Comics was published in 2018 by Hermes Press.
She appeared on the AMC series The Secret History of Comics in November 2017. Her article, “Applying the Lasso of Truth to The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore” was published in the Spring 2018 issue of the International Journal of Comic Art. A reprint of the Major’s adventure tales, The Texas-Siberia Trail, was published by Off-Trail Publications.
Nicky writes about comics for her blog found at http://www.majormalcolmwheelernicholson.com and numerous publications including The Comics Beat, The Pulpster and Women’s Enews. Nicky is an editor and publisher with experience in audio, film, animation and book publishing, and holds a Master’s in Classical Greek Mythology. She appears at comics conventions throughout the US moderating panels and speaking about comic book history and women in comics.