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.

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 ...

So, Mar-Vell is the first to hold the mantle, and Carol is the second, but who is DC’s Captain Marvel? Well, these days the character goes by Shazam, but this one can be a bit confusing.

Created in 1940 by Bill Parker and C.C. Beck, Shazam has, to say the least, a complicated history. Partly that’s because he was first known as Captain Marvel. Obviously, not the Captain Marvel ...

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 ...

Created by artist CC Beck and writer Bill Parker in 1939, Captain Marvel was the alter ego of Billy Batson, who transformed into the superhero by speaking the world "SHAZAM". He first appeared in ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Captain Marvel/Shazam comic books, lightning is used as part of the transformation process. Saying the word brings down a force of lightning from Zeus that transforms the summoner into a ...

That’s because the name has a rather interesting and convoluted history, and it all boils down to three separate characters who go by Captain Marvel, Mar-Vell, and Shazam!. All three are ...