Despite their efforts, Captain Marvel has not regained widespread appeal with new generations, although a 1970s Shazam! live action television series featuring the character was very popular. They have since integrated Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family into the " DC Universe", and have attempted a few revivals.
The company would eventually acquire all rights to the characters by 1991.
Fawcett ceased publishing Captain Marvel-related comics in 1953, due in part to a copyright infringement suit from DC Comics alleging that Captain Marvel was an illegal infringement of Superman.ĭC licensed the Marvel Family characters and returned them to publication in 1972. Captain Marvel was also the first superhero to be adapted into film in 1941 ( The Adventures of Captain Marvel). In addition, based on sales, he was the most popular superhero of the 1940s, since the Captain Marvel Adventures comic book series sold more copies than Superman and other competing superhero books during the mid-1940s. Several friends and family members, most notably Marvel Family cohorts Mary Marvel and Captain Marvel, Jr., can share Billy's power and become "Marvels" themselves.Ĭaptain Marvel was hailed as "The World's Mightiest Mortal" in his adventures (and nicknamed "The Big Red Cheese" by archvillain Doctor Sivana, an epithet adopted by fans as a nickname for their hero). Whenever Billy speaks the wizard's name, he is instantly struck by a magic lightning bolt that transforms him into an adult superhero empowered with the abilities of six mythological figures. With a premise that taps into adolescent fantasy, Captain Marvel is the alter ego of Billy Batson, a youth who works as a radio news reporter and was chosen to be a champion of good by the wizard Shazam. Beck and writer Bill Parker, the character first appeared in Whiz Comics #2 (February 1940). Magically bestowed aspects of various mythological figures which include vast super-strength, speed and stamina, physical and magical invulnerability, flight, fearlessness, vast wisdom, enhanced mental perception, control over and emission of magic lightning and vast untapped magical powersĬaptain Marvel is a comic book superhero, originally published by Fawcett Comics and now owned by DC Comics. The Power of Shazam! graphic novel (1994, canon) Related subjects: Cartoons Captain MarvelĬaptain Marvel, from the interior of The Trials of Shazam! #1 (2006).
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