Captain Marvel Part 3: Billy Batson, Shazam & the Marvel Family - Character Corner #72

Sorry for the delay folks but we're finally back to wrap up *checks notes* Captain Marvel Part 3? Or is this Shazam? Yeah we waste no time in this episode addressing the elephant in the room: What the heck do we call this character? Kriss & Dpalm have varying opinions but one thing that is agreed upon is that this is all DC's fault. They destroyed Fawcett because the "Superman Clone" was more popular than Superman, then tried to resurrect the character 20 years later after the name had already been registered by Marvel. So we're covering the ups and downs of the "Original Captain Marvel". We cover the Whiz Comics years, the DC relaunch, Roy Thomas' interesting yet unfinished attempt at the character, Jerry Ordway's Power of Shazam and the struggle of DC trying to figure out what to do with the character that once outsold Superman

Also...one of you asked for this so Dpalm also does a quick explanation of Marvelman. Just know it involves Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison. Buckle in folks. You're in for a ride.

Issues:

Early Fawcett Years:

Whiz Comics #2 - First appearance of Billy Batson/Captain Marvel, Shazam (the Wizard) and Dr. Sivana
Captain Marvel Adventures #18 - First Appearance of Mary Bromfield/Batson
Whiz Comics #25 - First Appearance of Freddy Freeman
Master Comics #21 - First Appearance of Captain Nazi
Captain Marvel Adventures #26 - First Appearance of Mister Mind
The Marvel Family #1 - First Appearance of Black Adam
Shazam! A Celebration of 75 Years - Contains more than the Fawcett comics but is a good catch-all
The Shazam!  Archives

Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4

The Shazam! Family Archives

The DC Relaunch

Shazam! - The 1972 relaunch under DC
Crisis on Infinite Earths - Brings Shazam/Captain Marvel and the Family into the same earth as othe rDC Characters
Shazam! The New Beginning
The Power of Shazam! Graphic Novel
The Power of Shazam! series

Issues 1 - 47

Geoff Johns JSA Series

We cover this more in our Black Adam,  JSA and Hawkman Character Corners
Issues 26 - 8

JSA: Fair Play Book 4
JSA: Stealing Thunder Book 5
JSA: Mixed Signals

Superman/Shazam: First Thunder
Days of Vengeance

#6 - The Wizard is killed

Infinite Crisis
52

We cover this a lot in our Black Adam Character Corner

The Trials of Shazam
Flashpoint
New 52

Shazam! Volume 1 - Not a solo series. Collects the back pages of Justice League #7 - 10, #0, #14-16 and #18-21

Rebirth

Shazam and the Magic Lands

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