For another, Captain Marvel and Billy Batson were ... because if they say Shazam out loud they’ll turn back into kids. I’m not joking. This is a real problem for the group, which Johns and ...

“Isn’t ‘Captain Marvel’ that kid Billy Batson that says ‘SHAZAM!’ and then turns into a grown man in red long johns, a white cape, and a gold lightning bolt on his chest?” Nop ...

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!

Eventually, the rights ended up with Marvel, who-we kid you not-changed the name ... Billy Batson only ever turns into Shazam! The name Captain Marvel is no longer associated with the character ...

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 show lasted three seasons. A short-lived animated series featuring Captain Marvel, called “The Kid Super Power Hour With Shazam!” followed in 1981, and lasted 12 episodes, but that was his ...

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 ...

Whether played by Angel or Levi, Billy is just a kid. It’s fun to watch him ... can’t change what’s damaged inside. Captain Marvel (or Shazam, or Thundercrack, or whatever you call him ...

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.

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 ...