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 ...

The best Shazam comics capture the magic of a child with godlike powers. They also never lose sight of Billy Batson’s ...

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.

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 ...

The reference itself is a few years old, but it took an ad for the new mobile game Marvel Strike Force to remind us that it was a thing. In 2012, Kelly Sue DeConnick had a supporting character ...

Captain Marvel will finally be making his debut in DC’s New 52 universe this month, but not without some changes. For one, he’ll now be referred to as Shazam instead of Captain Marvel.

With Marvel Studio's Captain Marvel hitting theaters on March 8 and the Warner Bros. picture Shazam in theaters on April 5, fans already seem to be trying to pit the two superheroes against each ...

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 ...

If you see a male Captain Marvel in red and gold it is Shazam!. Hopefully, this helps clear things up at least a little bit. You can find out more about Captain Marvel here.

Let me take you back to 1939 when a company called Fawcett Comics published a comic called Whiz Comics #2, which starred a character called Captain Marvel (we’ll come back to that).The hero was ...

Article Summary. The lightning in Captain Marvel/Shazam comics sometimes has other uses. In the Legends series, the lightning killed macro-man during Billy Batson's transformation.