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.

For the uninitiated, Billy Batson was originally called “Captain Marvel” when he debuted in 1940. He gained his powers from a wizard named Shazam and got them from by shouting the wizard’s ...

But isn't Captain Marvel a Marvel character? The hero now known as DC Comics' Shazam! was originally called Captain Marvel. In 1939, comic book writer Bill Parker and artist C.C. Beck decided to ...

If we’re talking about Shazam in the time when he was called Captain Marvel, we’ll call him Captain Marvel. If we’re talking about Miracleman in the time when he was called Marvelman ...

At first, Captain Marvel and Shazam! might seem as though they have nothing to do with each other besides the fact that they're superhero movies that came out around the same time. While we're not ...

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 ...

It wouldn’t be until almost 20 years later that DC would license the Captain Marvel characters, relaunching the book under the title Shazam! This was due to a copyright issue with a Marvel ...

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.

Zachary Levi plays a stand-up superhero in the forthcoming DC Comics-based blockbuster Shazam! But the actor recently stood up for truth and justice in real life as well. Prior to the release of ...

C.C. Beck, who grew up in Zumbrota, drew the Captain Marvel comic for Fawcett Publications from its creation in 1940 to its final issue in 1953.