Shazam and Superman are two DC powerhouses, but who would come out victorious in an epic brawl between these titans? Script ...

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 ...

Freddy’s new magic word and power source playfully pokes fun at another aspect of Shazam’s lore. When the character was published by Fawcett Comics, he changed by yelling, “Captain Marvel” ...

Shazam! and Guardians of the Galaxy star Djimon Hounsou has said he's "still struggling financially to make a living" in Hollywood and argues that he's underpaid, despite booking major movie ...

and if it hadn't been for Shazam, we would not have had Captain Marvel. Ironically enough, Superman, as we know, might not have existed without Shazam as well. During the first few years ...

This is similar to how a group of goddesses agreed to sponsor Mary Bromfield as Mary Marvel after she also lost her Shazam powers. In terms of classical mythology, it makes sense that Hephaestus ...

Comic book characters from Philadelphia are nothing new. DC Comics' Billy Batson (alter ego of Shazam) and Marvel Comics' Jim Rhodes, who becomes War Machine, are both Philadelphia natives who ...