Religion: probably indeterminate
Name: William Winters
Classification:
supporting character
Publisher(s): 
First Appearance: Journey Into Mystery (vol. 1) #1 (June 1952): "The Clutching Hands"
Creators: Carl Wessler, Cal Massey
Number of Appearances: 1
Enemy of: Clutching Hands
Ally: Ted Wayne
Occupation: publisher
Nation: USA
Race: white
Gender: male
Note: killed by Clutching Hands (ghost)
William Winters was a book publisher. Two of the authors whose works he published were Ted Wayne and Ellis Brent.
Winters was apparently unaware that Ted Wayne murdered Ellis Brent, stole his writing, and passed it off as his own. After this murder, the ghostly hands of Ellis Brent sought vengeance on Ted Wayne. The ghostly hands, known as the "Clutching Hands," killed William Winters in order to frame Ted Wayne for the crime. The Clutching Hands even signed a fake confession implicating Wayne in the publisher's murder.
Eventually the Clutching Hands killed Ted Wayne himself.
If you think about it, William Winters really got a raw deal in all this. He didn't murder anybody, and there is no indication he even knew that Wayne stole Ellis Brent's work. But the ghost of Ellis Brent killed him anyway.
Journey Into Mystery (vol. 1) #1 (June 1952): "The Clutching Hands"
Suggested links for further research about this character:
- http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix2/clutchinghandsjim.htm#winters
- http://www.marvunapp.com/master/wimwin.htm
- https://www.comics.org/issue/9716/