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's history is rich, from being a Golden Age icon to being a center of copyright disputes. Marvel outmaneuvered DC by securing the name first, causing DC to rebrand Shazam and ...

Talking to TwoMorrows' The Krypton Companion, Maggin explained, "We were trying to do the traditional Fawcett-style Captain Marvel in the Shazam! book in those days. The style of artwork was diffe ...

and if it hadn't been for Shazam, we would not have had Captain Marvel. Ironically enough, Superman, as we know, might not have existed without Shazam as well. During the first few years ...

After overtaking Captain America: The First Avenger both domestically and worldwide this past weekend, the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America: Brave New World ...