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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
One of those big Easter eggs in Shazam!Fury of the Gods was Billy Batson being called Captain Marvel.While many might think that this is a reference to the Marvel character of the same name, there ...
Captain Marvel/Shazam! has been fighting crime on the comic book pages for over eight decades (though he was put on ice for 20 years), and has been one of DC Comics' most popular characters since ...