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 newsboy named Billy Batson who can ...

A stunned Mary just looked on. The runaway success of Shazam/Captain Marvel in the 1940s inspired his then-publisher Fawcett to create a whole family of characters based on him. Within a few years ...

Talking to TwoMorrows' The Krypton Companion, Maggin explained, "We were trying to do the traditional Fawcett-style Captain Marvel in the Shazam! book in those days. The style of artwork was diffe ...