Captain Marvel, Jr. was a teenage boy named Freddy Freeman — just like the Freddy Freeman of the movie Shazam! — who was severely injured by the diabolical foe of Captain Marvel, Captain Nazi.

The Marvel Family Though the Captain Marvel/Shazam continuity has been rebooted many times over the years, in the original version Freddy was granted his powers by Captain Marvel after a near ...

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. Shazam ...

Debuting in 1941â s Whiz Comics #25, Freddy Freeman, or â Captain Marvel Juniorâ as he was once known, became the rock upon which the Shazam Family was built.

But that iteration of the Marvel Family was to be short-lived, as the entire DC line relaunched yet again with The New 52 initiative in 2011, where Captain Marvel was officially renamed Shazam for ...

When Shazam! — nee Captain Marvel — was introduced, he immediately became one of the most popular characters in comics, outselling even Superman (of whom he was accused of being a copycat ...

Billy Batson's adopted family is central to the Shazam! film franchise, with Billy sharing the powers of Shazam among his foster siblings - a concept that has its roots in comic books. And with ...

Once Shazam/Captain Marvel and his related Fawcett Comics superheroes were licensed for publication and later bought outright by DC in the '70s, most of the Shazam Family characters were revisited ...

Captain Marvel, also known as Shazam, is a superhero originally published by Fawcett Comics and currently published by DC Comics. Artist C. C. Beck and writer Bill Parker created the character in ...

They would still reference the Marvel family in the books of course, but they couldn’t officially use the title any longer. ... If you see a male Captain Marvel in red and gold it is Shazam!.

Billy Batson gets an all new origin, look, superhero name and more in the back pages of Justice League #7. What are you thoughts on The Big Red Cheese's new duds?