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 ...

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 ...

Captain Marvel - while something of a B-list Marvel character for most of the history of the women and men who have held the title - has been elevated to A-list over the last few years takes to ...

DC Comics’ Shazam arrives just a month after Marvel’s billion-dollar blockbuster Captain Marvel. The two characters are forever entangled, and have wild connections to Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore ...

“Captain Marvel” opens with sneak previews on the evening of Thursday March 7th at Regal Salisbury Cinemas, look for “Shazam!” to be opening there on or around April 5th. Carlo DiSalvo is ...

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.

As for the other Captain Marvel, DC Comics used The New 52 relaunch in 2011 to officially rename Billy Batson's superhero alter go as Shazam, so Captain Marvel no longer exists in the DC Comics ...

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.

Once upon a time, Shazam was known as Captain Marvel. But when the character was bought by DC Comics, the very company that had once stopped it from being published, they were now unable to call ...

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 ...

Shazam. Originally known as Captain Marvel, the magical champion Shazam is a DC Comics superhero who gains his powers from various mythological figures: Solomon's wisdom, Hercules' strength, Atlas ...