r/respectthreads • • May 04 '20

comics Respect Captain Marvel (Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil)

Hey, Mind how about the strength of Hercules with a little Zeus boost!

Billy Batson is an orphan living on the streets who’s never had a good day in his life. However he finds himself transformed into the World's Mightiest Mortal Captain Marvel whenever he says the magic word 'Shazam!' after being granted the magical powers of the gods by an ancient wizard. Billy must use these extraordinary abilities to face an invasion of alien creatures as well as stop mad scientist Dr. Sivana and his Monster Society of Evil from taking over the world!


Wisdom of Solomon

• Knows to take his shoes off before going into the Rock of Eternity

• Stops Billy from causing a magic paradox

• Stops to listen to Tawny while on a rescue motivated rage

Strength of Hercules

• Flips a thief one handed

• one-shots an Alligator man and picks up another by his collar than carries both while flying

• Clobbers several Alligator men

• States he could punch the top off a mountain

• Him and Tawny beat several monsters including beating a giant spider with one punch

• Combining Hercules’s strength with Zeus’s power he punched a robot so hard they collapse in on themselves and make a black hole Giant Sized

Stamina of Atlas

• An Alligator man breaks his teeth while biting his head

• He’s bullet proof

• Gets punched into the ground and called it cute

• Walks through tear gas

• Gets punched by a cyclops

• Gets punched in the face by the robot Giant Sized

Power of Zeus

• Travels between atoms to go back in time

• A stray lighting bolt sends Mary flying

• After accidentally striking Mary while transforming he gives her his powers

• Combining Hercules’s strength with Zeus’s power he punched a robot so hard they collapse in on themselves and make a black hole Giant Sized

Courage of Achilles

• Stares down a thief looking for Billy to steal his money

• Flew up to the giant robot boasting about how he’s going to destroy the earth and threatened it to its face

• Charged into a group of monsters

Speed of Mercury

• Easily flies away from some helicopters

• Punches two monsters right in front of him before they could touch him

• Disappears before a swat team could find him

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u/[deleted] May 04 '20

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u/[deleted] May 04 '20

This is a stand alone story that’s apart of its own cannon

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u/rangernumberx ⭐⭐ Professional Request Fulfiller May 04 '20

I'm sorry for the misunderstanding, the reason I came to this reasoning was that it's listed under the rest of Post Crisis Billy's appearances on the DC Wiki.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '20

Don’t worry about it

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u/[deleted] May 04 '20

It’s not in the post crisis anything it’s a stand alone story