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.

That’s because the name has a rather interesting and convoluted history, and it all boils down to three separate characters who go by Captain Marvel, Mar-Vell, and Shazam!. All three are ...

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 ...

Zachary Levi plays a stand-up superhero in the forthcoming DC Comics-based blockbuster Shazam! But the actor recently stood up for truth and justice in real life as well. Prior to the release of ...

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 ...

DC's Captain Marvel, also known as Shazam, has never been more than a second stringer in the modern era, especially compared to major heroes such as Superman. Likewise, the Big Red Cheese's most ...

Black Adam was a Captain Marvel antagonist ... a team-up like a BRAVE & BOLD appearance or the eventual SUPERMAN VS. SHAZAM tabloid, but had a 'floor' on the royalty rate that made it impractical ...