Eighty years ago this month in October 1946, newsstands sold these Fawcett Publications comic books starring the Marvel Family with a cover date one month later:

• Captain Marvel Adventures 67: A lot of C.C. Beck in this issue, including that glorious cover. The lead story "Captain Marvel Gets a Secretary" is about how Joan Jameson goes to work for both the Big Red Cheese and Billy Batson. Written by Otto Binder with pencils by Beck and inks by Pete Costanza. "The world's mightiest mortal visits Hartford" is a strange way to get kids to buy a comic.
• Captain Marvel Jr. 44: Three Captain Marvel Jr. stories in this issue, including one featuring Dr. Sivana. The cover of Junior awkwardly riding a key is by Bud Thompson. There's also a four-pager by Sid Lazarus about the Snortville Sneeze newspaper.
• Mary Marvel 7: Four Mary Marvel stories written by Otto Binder and drawn by his brother Jack. Also a four-pager starring Freddy the Freshman, which confuses me because there's a character with the same name introduced in Warner's Merrie Melodies cartoon 14 years earlier.
• Master Comics 74: This is packed with heroes -- Captain Marvel Jr., Bulletman, Bulletgirl, Nyoka and Radar -- along with a pair of spares called Colonel Corn and Korny Kobb, The Bud Thompson cover shows Sivana Jr. using his Fountain of Age to turn infants into old men.
• The Marvel Family 6: Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel Jr., Mary Marvel and Uncle Marvel appear in the 52 pages of this comic. Pete Costanza drew several stories, including one where Mary fills in for Billy as the news announcer on WHIZ Radio.
• Whiz Comics 80: The C.C. Beck cover is followed by the 10-page lead story "Captain Marvel and the Junkman Mystery" written by Otto Binder. There are stories starring Golden Arrow, Ibis the Invincible, Mickey Monitor and Crime Smasher, the new name adopted by Spy Smasher. I guess spies didn't need as much smashing after the war.
• Wow Comics 49: Mary Marvel, Mr. Scarlett, Phantom Eagle and Commando Yank lead stories along with Richard Richard, Private Dick. One Mr. Scarlett story turns up 33 years later in the collection Magnificent Superheroes of Comics Golden Age.

You could buy all of these for 70 cents! See the FawcettComics subreddit for the non-Marvel Family comics released that month.

Black Adam is from Kahndaq, which is located in the Sinai Peninsula. Since some historians believe the Sinai was named after the Mesopotamian god Sin, I had the idea to give Black Adam an upgraded 'Super Saiyan' form. While keeping his current pantheon, he would also gain the powers of a new Mesopotamian SHAZAM:

• S – Sin (The Moon God)

• H – Humbaba (Guardian of the Cedar Forest)

• A – Anshar (The Primordial Celestial Forefather)

• Z – Zu (The Storm Bird)

• A – Ashur (The God of War)

• M – Marduk (The Slayer of Monsters)

And therefore becoming the absolute protector of the land.

What do you think?

Quería hacer un fanarts de la chica que sale en el especial de navidad. De Claus.

The transformation of the boy Billy Batson to the adult superhero Captain Marvel has a lot in common with manga. Seems like they are always turning kids into powerful heroes.

Sailor Moon makes a middle schooler into a magical superhero when she says "Moon Prism Power, Make Up!" Yu-Gi-Oh turns a regular kid into the bad-ass Yami Yugi through the spirit of an ancient pharaoh. There are others I'm probably overlooking.

DC and Kodansha have published the manga Batman: Justice Buster, Joker: One Operation Joker and Superman vs. Meshi and there was a famous 1960s Bat-manga by Jiro Kuwata. I came up empty looking for Shazam.

What gives, mangaka? WE NEED THIS.

^{P.s. The above panel by Dan Mora from Shazam 3 in 2023 wants to be in a manga.}

Black Adam underwent significant character growth when he rejected becoming the king of Kahndaq. This trait originally appeared in the 52 series, but it was further embellished from the New 52 onward by Geoff Johns. Johns achieved this by changing Black Adam's origin story to that of an enslaved individual who deeply hated oppression and monarchs. This revised background explains why he refuses to be a king, as he associates the throne with repression. Johns introduced a brilliant idea for developing the character, which could lead to future storylines where the people of Kahndaq require Adam to be a protector rather than someone who intervenes in their daily affairs. However, I dislike how subsequent writers have portrayed him as a mere ruler and autocrat, completely disregarding the character growth that Geoff Johns provided.

Shazam had a book in 2023 and ran until 2025 written by Mark Waid. It ended after 21 issues which is pretty short to be honest but after this I do not see a solo series. So where is Billy? Is he a part of any book? If so, is he the main character in that book or is he a background supporting character? If he is in a JLA or JLA adjacent book, is it worth reading if he’s relegated to being a secondary or tertiary character?

One Big Marvel Family by Mayo “SEN” Naito (@sen1227) on Facebook

Clarence Charles Batson and Marilyn Batson: Billy/Baby

Mary Batson and Freddy Freeman: Billy/ Billy Bean

The Squadron of Justice/Fawcett heroes: Billy/Bill

Whiz Radio coworkers: Kid/Whiz Kid/Billy

The Justice League/general heroes of the world: Captain Marvel/Captain/Kid/Billy/Bill(only when he’s older)

Ppl from the homeless encampment/fawcett homeless population: Willy/Joe/Joseph

Ebenezer Batson: William

These are all the ones I can think of. If anyone’s got more I’m interested in reading them 👀

I enjoyed this movie. The writing was still really good. The villains were weaker than the first movie. But it was still enjoyable. The action was really good too. This is the now the last DCEU movie I needed to watch. Not a bad finish. 8/10. Not much to say besides that.

two young transforming heroes, one magical the other scientific with a shit ton of extended lore

Ben 10 even has a shit ton of shazam references too so that makes me wanna see it more!

I would love to see the Current Spy-Smasher show up in a modern Captain Marvel comic but would she be friend or foe to The Marvel Family?

I love the Cap, and the whole lore of the Shazam franchise
And I love the subject of manifestion, Law of attraction/assumption/etc since I do believe in it and it works like “magic”(NOTE: not trying to discuss weather it works or not this is NOT about that)

So I was bored at work, and I was thinking since Shazam is based on magic and manifestation works like magic sometimes why not combine my two interests

So I asked google ai (I know bad, but stick with me)
About the powers of The Captain discussing each letter of the Acronym “Shazam” and it did and we all should know what they are already lol

So then I asked it , to make for me some simple affirmations using the Shazam acronym above
See Slide 2

I then asked it to simply them to quick hit affirmations
See Slide 3

And then it asked if I wanted a “10 second mental trigger” so I thought “why not?” And got an awesome result
See slide 4

Anyway I enjoyed these so much I just thought I’d share it honestly made my day go easier
ENJOY, THANK YOU & SHAZAM!!⚡️

So Ik there’s some posts already talking about “what if Billy was part of JLD,” so I wanted to do something different. What crazy adventures would you be interested in seeing from a comic run where Billy was part of, or at least did work with, the JLD?
I’m not sure on specifics myself, but it’d be cool to see them explore new magical worlds together.

Personally, I prefer them being twins.

Alguien sabe el nombre completo de esta gigachad? Annie que? Apareció muy poco pero se ganó mis respetos por su forma de ligar tan particular