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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Captain Marvel, Jr. was a teenage boy named Freddy Freeman — just like the Freddy Freeman of the movie Shazam! — who was severely injured by the diabolical foe of Captain Marvel, Captain Nazi.

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.

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 ...

Two-time Oscar winner William Goldman has been hired to adapt DC Comics' "Shazam!" for New Line Cinema. "Shazam!" is the story of Billy Batson, who transforms into Captain Marvel, the world's ...

There is a vocal contingent of fans who still refuse to call DC’s Shazam by any name other than Captain Marvel — the one he was given when created by Bill Parker and C.C. Beck in 1939.