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 ...

Captain Marvel's history is rich, from being a Golden Age icon to being a center of copyright disputes. Marvel outmaneuvered DC by securing the name first, causing DC to rebrand Shazam and ...

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 ...

You can get, like, death threats and everything so after Shazam 2, I was like, 'I never wanna do another IP-based movie because it's just not worth it,'" the filmmaker added of the DCU experience ...

And I knew of the character of Captain Marvel/Shazam back then. But the only thing I really knew about it was the iconic [concept], it's a young boy who can say a magic word and become a superhero.