Shazam! stars a superhero with a publishing history more convoluted than his origin story, and strangely enough, happens to have an odd connection to the recently released Captain Marvel. Shazam ...

The reference itself is a few years old, but it took an ad for the new mobile game Marvel Strike Force to remind us that it was a thing. In 2012, Kelly Sue DeConnick had a supporting character ...

Captain Marvel, Jr. was a teenage boy named Freddy Freeman — just like the Freddy Freeman of the movie Shazam! — who was severely injured by the diabolical foe of Captain Marvel, Captain Nazi.

DC and Marvel have a lot of beefs. But none is older, or stranger, than the one over ’Shazam!’ and the name ’Captain Marvel.’ ...

Created in 1940 by Bill Parker and C.C. Beck, Shazam was first known as Captain Marvel, but his publishers lost the rights to that name to Marvel Comics.

Shazam Was the Original Captain Marvel — Yes, You Read That Right. By Stacey Nguyen. Updated on April 11, 2019 at 6:31 PM. Everett Collection Everett Collection.

Let me take you back to 1939 when a company called Fawcett Comics published a comic called Whiz Comics #2, which starred a character called Captain Marvel (we’ll come back to that).The hero was ...

The Internet has been trying to pit the upcoming Marvel and DC films Captain Marvel and Shazam! […] By Jamie Jirak. February 26, 2019, 2:13pm. X; ...

So, Captain Marvel was Shazam! which is a D.C. comic, but now they're two seperate heroes owned by two separate entities. It's like when there's a Jamie and a Jaime, and ones a guy and one's a girl.

In the Captain Marvel/Shazam comic books, lightning is used as part of the transformation process. Saying the word brings down a force of lightning from Zeus that transforms the summoner into a ...