Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson

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Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson's most recent publication is DC Comics Before Superman Hermes Press and co-editing and writing an Introduction to a reprint of some of the Major’s adventure tales from the pulps entitled The Texas-Siberia Trail published by Off-Trail Publications. Nicky has experience in audio, film, animation and book publishing, and holds a Master’s in Classical Greek Mythology. Her publications include articles on comic book history, mythology, and scripts for theatre and animated film. She was featured in Women’s Enews with an article on Wonder Woman and San Diego Comic Con and writes for the online comics magazine The Beat. Nicky was an editor and contributor to Oil and Water and Other Things That Don’t Mix, an anthology to bene ...more

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Happy 130th Birthday to the Founder of DC Comics

It’s a super heroic birthday for the Major—130 years ago January 7, 1890. And it’s only taken 20 plus years to get a semblance of recognition for the man. I say semblance because his name should be synonymous with comics and that hasn’t quite happened yet.

As Uncle Douglas and I were told on the occasion of touring the DC offices in New York in 2004—“If it weren’t for your grandfather, I wouldn’t b Read more of this blog post »
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Published on January 07, 2020 18:00 Tags: buffalo-soldiers, dc-comics, fort-bliss, major-malcolm-wheeler-nicholson, pulps
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Albert Einstein
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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