By 1974, a new generation of kids thought the character’s name was Shazam, even though the character was still called Captain Marvel in the stories. He was even on TV in a rather odd live-action ...

the adult superhero that young foster kid Billy Batson transforms ... Captain Marvel was officially renamed. Captain Marvel was dead – long live Shazam! Annette Bening as the Supreme ...

DC’s comedic take on a foster kid who can become a superhero ... the publisher of Shazam’s adventures, had to stop publishing Captain Marvel, and ultimately shut down in 1953.

Whiz Comics #2 even outsold Superman, which led Fawcett to create the Marvel Family, a team of superpowered kids ... the Captain Marvel characters, relaunching the book under the title Shazam!

When Captain Marvel said “Shazam!,” another crash brought Billy ... Marvelman comics were a touchstone in the lives of UK kids, thanks in part to the Children and Young Persons (Harmful ...

The kid eventually gains the ability to transform ... which makes sense because of the confusion. So, Captain Marvel was Shazam! which is a D.C. comic, but now they're two seperate heroes owned ...

DC's Captain Marvel, also known as Shazam, has never been more than a second ... a character who can easily become dated. The idea of a kid who becomes a superhero will obviously be one bogged ...

Warning: contains spoilers for Shazam #15! Shazamâ s lore has changed forever, as his foster sibling Freddy Freeman gets new powersâ and I think I know how they work. The Shazam Family has been ...

Mark Waid's "Captain Kid" tells a story about an aging ... the most popular and long lasting being DC's Shazam, originally known as Captain Marvel. With a single utterance of his alter ego'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 ...