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 ...

That Warner Bros.’ Shazam! arrives in theaters just weeks after Marvel’s Captain Marvel is a strange probable coincidence that underscores the long-running, often litigious history shared by ...

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

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 ...

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.

There is a vocal contingent of fans who still refuse to call DC’s Shazam by any name other than Captain Marvel — the one he was given when created by Bill Parker and C.C. Beck in 1939.

In the meantime, Marvel’s version of Captain Marvel had also gone through a few changes. After Mar-Vell, various other cosmic characters had ended up using the Captain Marvel name, and they were ...

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.

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 ...