If we’re talking about Shazam in the time when he was called Captain Marvel, we’ll call him Captain Marvel. If we’re talking about Miracleman in the time when he was called Marvelman ...

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.

Decades before the superhero movie boom and DC’s impressive comic book movie boom, some heroes had already made their cinematic debuts.

Created by artist CC Beck and writer Bill Parker in 1939, Captain Marvel was the alter ego of Billy Batson, who transformed into the superhero by speaking the world "SHAZAM". He first appeared in ...

That's because someone else took his place. Captain Marvel was another hero that made his debut in "Whiz Comics #2" in the late 1939 published by Fawcett Comics. It featured a 12-year-old orphaned ...

Captain Marvel, also known as Shazam and now The Captain was created by C. C. Beck and Bill Parker in 1939 for Whiz Comics #2, published by Fawcett . He is the alter ego of the ten-year-old boy ...

For the uninitiated, Billy Batson was originally called “Captain Marvel” when he debuted in 1940. He gained his powers from a wizard named Shazam and got them from by shouting the wizard’s ...

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 ...

These are some of the best Shazam comics you can read today. Two of Earth's powerful superheroes - Superman, the alien with a host of incredible powers, and Captain Marvel, a boy able to transform ...

That origin is just a bit different from the Mary Bromfield of the Shazam! movies, but we'll get to that. Interestingly enough, even though Captain Marvel himself would eventually be deemed a too ...