"Luthor in ""Shazam!"" #15, November/December 1974). In 1983, a proposal for an updated Captain Marvel was submitted to DC by Roy Thomas, Don Newton, and Jerry Ordway. This version of the character, to be an inhabitant of DC's main Earth-One universe, rather than the Fawcett-based Earth-S universe, would have featured an African-American version of Billy Batson named ""Willie Fawcett"" (as in the 1974 story), who spoke the magic word ""Shazam!"" to become Captain Thunder, Earth-One's Mightiest Mortal. This alternate version of the character was never used. The 2011 ""Flashpoint"" comics miniseries, written by Geoff Johns with art by Andy Kubert,"
"travels to the W.H.I.Z. radio station with two other Billy Batsons, one from the Western United States and one from the Southern United States, to visit the ""real"" Billy. To prevent confusion, the western Billy suggests he be called ""Tall"" Billy, the southern Billy is renamed ""Hill"" Billy and Brooklyn's Billy is given the title ""Fat"" Billy. At the ""real"" Billy's suggestion, all four Billys form the Billy Batson Club. Billy reveals he is Captain Marvel to them, and says they should only say ""Shazam!"" when he gives them a wink. The nefarious Dr. Sivana hatches a plan to kill"
"to a log heading towards a buzzsaw, then leave. Billy is able to remove his gag on the buzzsaw, but his shout of ""Shazam"" can not be heard over the roar of the buzzsaw. With seconds to spare, Billy enlists the aid of his club members and they all shout ""Shazam!"" together. When the smoke clears, Captain Marvel sees that the other Billys have transformed as well, into Tall Marvel, Hill Marvel, and Fat Marvel. Hill Marvel remarks that they have each changed into Captain Marvel but Fat Marvel counters that by saying that there is only one Captain Marvel."
"identity. The human hostility towards superheroes has made him uneasy, and he has not transformed into Captain Marvel for several years. Batson has become the brainwashed servant of Lex Luthor, who uses Mister Mind's mind-controlling worm offspring to keep him in check and bend him to his will. Nevertheless, Batson's potential as a being powerful enough to rival Superman causes many others to react in fear and unease when he mingles with them, believing it is a non-costumed Captain Marvel that serves Luthor. Events finally cause him to transform into Captain Marvel, and he unleashes a force that could destroy"
"Captain Marvel in battling villains from American History whom Doctor Sivana has resurrected to cause trouble in Pittsburgh while he prepares his plan to destroy the city. Billy Batson goes to the Pavilion, but he is seized by a thug before he can speak. He is bound and gagged and taken inside. The Kid goes there and sees Billy but is coshed by the thug. He too is bound and gagged and brought inside. He and Billy are tied back to back and placed under the Liberty Bell. Billy removes his gag using Benedict Arnold's sword as it goes through"
"Shazam (wizard) Shazam () is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Djimon Hounsou will play the ancient wizard, Shazam, in the upcoming theatrical film. Created by Bill Parker and C. C. Beck for Fawcett Comics, he is an ancient wizard (""Whiz Comics"" #2 gives his age as 3,000 years) who gives young Billy Batson the power to transform into the superhero Captain Marvel. DC Comics has billed Captain Marvel's adventures under the title ""Shazam!"" since 1973. In 2012, DC officially changed Captain Marvel's name to ""Shazam"", to resolve trademark conflicts with the Marvel Comics"
"the scientist, but Captain Marvel, despite being knocked back by the hate, uses an artificial rainstorm to break up the army and places Mr. Mind in a tin. Mr. Mind forms an alliance with Lex Luthor who was actually transported to Earth-S while using a magic accumulator he had planned to use to destroy Superman. They manage to use the accumulator to turn Captain Marvel into Billy Batson by 'stealing' part of the lightning, and leave him inside a shark tank he had got into to capture Lex. However he is able to make the hammerhead shark break the tank"
"films in the franchise resort to this practice, some of them make use of post-credits scenes to further develop character relationships and establish the plot elements that will influence future installments, such as ""Suicide Squad"" and ""Justice League"". By shouting ""Shazam"", a 14-year-old foster child, Billy Batson, can turn into an adult superhero, courtesy of an ancient wizard. He attempts to master his powers and defeat the evil forces controlled by Doctor Sivana. In August 2014, Dwayne Johnson announced his attachment to a project about the superhero Shazam, formerly known as Captain Marvel. In September, Johnson was revealed to be"
"battle involving the Marvels. At a museum, he accidentally witnesses the Batsons transform and tells Theo Adam the magic word they used to transform into back Black Adam. Theo Adam then talks Freddy into becoming a Marvel as well, so he can do everything including walk again. He then transforms into Black Adam Junior and attacks the Marvels. However, Freddy soon realizes Black Adams' evil, rebels and makes partial peace with the Marvels, although he keeps aloof from them. However, Captain Marvel was later traumatically drained and aged by the supervillain, The Vampire Burglar, Mary Marvel and Tawky Tawny came"
"lightning, and Sivana becomes a hulking, musclebound brute called Black Sivana. Black Sivana appears to be winning the fight, but Captain Marvel transforms back into Billy Batson and uses the Suspendium crystals to transmit a message back through time. The meaning of the message is revealed: each member of the Legion of Sivanas stole Suspendium from the group, depriving Sivanaday the full twenty-four hours to last a complete day. Sivanaday runs out of time and Sivana loses his powers. Having saved the day, Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family fly off to the next big adventure. The sixth chapter, illustrated"
"leads Billy to take Freddy to the underground throne of the wizard Shazam, who originally granted Captain Marvel his powers. Billy asks the wizard to heal Freddy and save his life, but Shazam cannot, and instead tells Billy that he, as Captain Marvel, can pass along some of his powers so that Freddy can walk again. Shazam disappears and Billy transforms back into Captain Marvel, just as Freddy awakens. Looking up, he exclaims “Why...it’s Captain Marvel,” and is instantly transformed into a super-powered version of himself. Freddy, now called Captain Marvel Jr., resembles a younger Captain Marvel, though with a"
"his name. Before leaving, Oggar remained close enough to the gates of the Shazamo temple that he heard a prophecy: In the twentieth century, the wizard (now Shazam) would die and would have a successor named Billy Batson. Billy was destined to become Captain Marvel and acquire the combined powers of the remaining heroes of the pantheon. Oggar thought it would be wise to wait until the twentieth century when there would only be Captain Marvel rather than seven enemies to defeat. However, 3000 years ago in the mortal world, Oggar tried to seduce the beautiful Circe to be his"
"though still helping the Marvel Family to fight crime, on Earth-5, as seen in ""The Multiversity"" miniseries by writer Grant Morrison. By shouting ""Shazam!"", the three Billy Batsons are transformed into the Lieutenant Marvels. In this form, they each have the powers of Captain Marvel: the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlas, the power of Zeus, the courage of Achilles, and the speed of Mercury. Since they have to share the power, they are each only one-third as powerful as Captain Marvel. In the direct-to-video animated film """", three superpowered henchmen with powers similar to"
"Superman manages to grab Marvel and allow the bolt to transform him into Billy. Holding Batson's mouth shut, Superman tells him he is going to stop the remaining bomb, and Batson must make a choice: either stop Superman and allow the warhead to kill all the metahumans, or let Superman stop the bomb and allow the metahumans' war to engulf the world. Superman tells Batson he must be the one to make this decision, as he is the only one who lives in both worlds: a man (as Batson) and a god (as Marvel). Batson, his mind now clear of"
"Moly was to close down. As well as the main section, the website used to contain other sections which no longer exist: This is a spin-off website (formerly at http://www.goalymoly.co.uk) from the same team, focusing on ""breaking football news, transfer and sacking gossip, WAGs & pictures"". This has similar features to the main site, namely The Korner, The Heroes and The Rules. It was briefly launched in 2007 but went on hiatus for four years, and has since relaunched in April 2010. Holy Moly ""Holy Moly"" was an expression often used by Billy Batson, the alter-ego of Captain Marvel (Now"
"Billy all said the word at the same time and were each transformed into one of the Lieutenant Marvels, having powers akin to Captain Marvel. They could only change if all three said the magic word at the same time along with the real Billy (in later appearances of the Lieutenant Marvels such as ""Shazam"" #30, this limitation was ignored, though none of them operated singly as a Marvel). The ""modern"" Squadron of Justice appears in one storyline, in ""Justice League of America"" #135-137 (October, December, 1976). Though the team was never called ""Squadron of Justice"" formally, it was referred"
"Luthor's influence, turns back into Captain Marvel. He grabs Superman, flinging him back to the ground, and flies after the missile. Marvel intercepts the missile and shouts ""Shazam!"" three times in rapid succession, detonating the bomb prematurely, and killing Batson in the process. Despite Marvel's sacrifice, most of the metahumans are obliterated in the explosion. Superman is unharmed, but does not realize that there are any other survivors. Enraged at the tremendous loss of life, Superman flies to the U.N. Building and threatens to bring it down atop the delegates as punishment for the massacre. The surviving metahumans arrive, but"
"Billy gagged and bound to a camouflaged gun so that if any British ships shot at the island he would be blown apart, etc. But Captain Marvel stopped them all, dismantled all of his resources, and arrested, frightened away, or accidentally killed all of his henchmen. Reverse cliffhangers were used, Mr Mind about to be crushed under a careless heel, about to be crushed in a paper roller, etc. Finally, a desperate Mr. Mind attacked Captain Marvel's alter ego, Billy Batson, with ether and left him unconscious. But he then realized that without his henchmen, he was practically helpless and"
"than he would ever be. In a separate subplot, Marvel's nemesis, Dr. Thaddeus Sivana, has contacted his business rival Lex Luthor and asked for assistance in destroying Captain Marvel. In exchange for Sivana selling Luthor back shares of LexCorp he'd been secretly buying, Luthor gives Sivana a man named Spec, a metahuman tracker-for-hire who eventually discovers that Captain Marvel is the alter ego of 11-year-old Billy Batson. After learning this, Sivana sends a heavily armed hit men to the subway where the orphaned Billy is living with orders to kill him. Calling upon the power of ""SHAZAM"", Captain Marvel dispatches"
"Marvel to turn back into young Billy Batson by forcing him to say ""Shazam!"" The source of these actions are found in Hank's brain, where Palmer encounters Mr. Mind, a Captain Marvel villain, who is feeding on Brainwave's growth. He finds it especially delicious, unlike regular humans. Palmer eventually gets past the worm and successfully incapacitates Brainwave. He is taken back with the JSA and left in the care of his mother Merry Pemberton. It is unknown when Brainwave became a host for Mr. Mind. Later, Brainwave is recruited by Doctor Fate to save Sand from The Dreaming. In that"
"#2 (1940), Billy is abandoned by his cruel uncle Ebenezer, and becomes a paperboy to earn a living. One night, Billy meets a dark-clothed stranger outside of a subway tunnel, and follows the stranger onto a magic subway car. The subway car leads Billy to the realm of the Wizard Shazam, who assigns the boy as his successor. By speaking Shazam's name, Billy is struck by a bolt of magic lightning and transformed into Captain Marvel, an adult superhero. As Captain Marvel, Billy thwarts a plan by Theo Adam and his employer, the rich tycoon Doctor Sivana, to destroy the"
"""Split!"" and reassembled himself by shouting ""Xam!"" He had a young human ward named Billy Baxton. This short-lived Captain Marvel was credited in the comic as being ""based on a character created by Carl Burgos"". Legal issues with Marvel Comics over the use of ""Marvel"" in the title led to M.F. ceasing publication after five issues, and accepting a $4500 settlement from Marvel. When superhero comics became popular again in the mid-1960s in what is now called the ""Silver Age of Comic Books"", Fawcett was unable to revive Captain Marvel, having agreed to never publish the character again as part"
"a white costume and long white hair, taking over the role of the wizard Shazam under the name ""Marvel,"" while the former Captain Marvel, Jr., Freddy Freeman, attempts to prove himself worthy to become Marvel's champion under the name ""Shazam."" In the pages of the 2007–2008 ""Countdown to Final Crisis"" limited series, Black Adam gives the powerless Mary Batson his powers, turning her into a more aggressive super-powered figure, less upstanding than the old Mary Marvel. By the end of the series, as well as in DC's 2008–2009 ""Final Crisis"" limited series, the now black-costumed Mary Marvel, possessed by the"
"to Mary, who wonders if, since she is Billy’s twin, she could become a Marvel by saying the magic word ""Shazam"". Billy, however, is assured that ""Old Shaz—er—you know who—wouldn’t give his powers to a girl!"" Just then, the kidnappers awaken then bind and gag Billy and Freddy, preventing them from saying their magic words. Mary exclaims that Billy cannot say ""Shazam"", inadvertently saying the word herself. She is then struck by a magic lightning bolt and transformed into a super-powered version of herself, later christened ""Mary Marvel"" by her brother. She defeats the thugs by herself, discovering that she"
"Holy Moly ""Holy Moly"" was an expression often used by Billy Batson, the alter-ego of Captain Marvel (Now Shazam!), a superhero based on DC Comics. Holy Moly, often known as ""HM"", was an entertainment website based in the UK and had similarities to Popbitch, Anorak and B3ta. It published (often mocking) gossip items related to celebrities, notably Amy Winehouse, Sienna Miller, Britney Spears, Tom Cruise and Paris Hilton. The website's scoops were often copied in the gossip pages of British tabloids such as ""The Sun"" the ""Daily Mirror"" and the ""Daily Star"". Sometimes Holy Moly would announce news before tabloids,"
"by Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Bulletman, and Bulletgirl, and, when Hawkman flew too near to one of the volcanoes, his shoulder began to petrify into stone. Off the coast of Atlantis, an iceberg was moving through the water at high speed and transforming anything that came near it into ice (including people). Rock formations came to life in the Garden of the Gods in Colorado and began turning people into stone. Billy Batson, ace anchor at Station WHIZ in New York (and the alter-ego of Captain Marvel), also reported that the steel frame of a building being constructed downtown started walking away,"
"When Mary Batson said the magic word ""Shazam!"", she would be transformed into Mary Marvel. In her Mary Marvel form, Mary possessed the following attributes: In the final issue of ""52"", a new Multiverse is revealed consisting of 52 identical realities. Earth-5 is depicted as home to the Marvel family characters. As a result of Mister Mind ""eating"" aspects of this universe, it takes on aspects similar to the pre-""Crisis"" Earth-S. Although the characters are not named in the panel in which they appear, a character looking like Mary Marvel is shown. ""52"" co-author Grant Morrison has made clear that"
"with the sudden loss of their star feature, and operating under different copyright laws, the company turned to Mick Anglo to come up with a replacement character that, while ostensibly a new creation, mimicked enough core elements of Captain Marvel to retain the interest of readers who had enjoyed the reprints. Anglo (along with writer Len Miller) created ""Marvelman"". Captain Marvel, Jr., was adapted to create Young Marvelman, and Mary Marvel had her gender changed to create the male Kid Marvelman. The magic word ""Shazam!"" was replaced with ""Kimota"" (""Atomik"" backwards). Using the ""new"" characters, the company launched three titles,"
"encounters an astrophysicist, instead of a wizard, who gives him superpowers based on atomic energy instead of magic. To transform into Marvelman, he speaks the word ""Kimota"", which is phonetically ""atomic"" backwards, rather than ""Shazam"". Instead of Captain Marvel Jr. and Mary Marvel, Marvelman was joined by Dicky Dauntless, a teenage messenger boy who became Young Marvelman, and young Johnny Bates, who became Kid Marvelman; both of their magic words were ""Marvelman"". ""Captain Marvel"" #19 and ""Captain Marvel, Jr."" #19 announced the forthcoming replacement of these heroes, and with issue number 25 of each title, both cover-dated 3 February 1954,"
"character of the same name. Both the wizard and his champion shared the name of ""Shazam"" in the comic book stories published from then to date, the Wizard later revealing ""Shazam"" is an adopted name, his original name being Mamaragan. Shazam informs Billy that he is an ancient Egyptian wizard who has been using his powers for many centuries to fight the forces of evil, but that he is now old and not long for this world. He therefore passes along part of his power to Billy, who shouts his name – ""SHAZAM!"" – to transform into Captain Marvel/Shazam. Although"
"group, so Parker decided to combine all of the outstanding characteristics of the group into a single character. He drew these characteristics from six mythological heroes - Solomon, Hercules, Achilles, Zeus, Atlas and Mercury - and used the first letter of each as an acrostic for the word ""Shazam."" After Parker had fully developed Captain Marvel's character and backstory, artist Clarence ""C.C."" Beck was brought in to flesh out the character's look, to which Parker contributed the ideas for the Hessian cape and the lightning bolt logo. Captain Marvel's first appearance was in Whiz Comics #2, which went on sale"
"trouble, Captain Marvel helps Tawny become a respectable part of society and secures a job for him as a tour guide at the local museum. Tawny became a regular recurring character in ""Captain Marvel Adventures"", appearing as the best friend of Captain Marvel and his juvenile alter-ego Billy Batson, until it ceased publication in 1953. As a respectable gentleman, Tawny typically dressed in a tweed suit, and spoke and acted in a dignified manner. His second appearance, ""Captain Marvel and the Return of Mr. Tawny"" (from ""Captain Marvel Adventures"" #82 in 1948), featured Tawny's origin story: Tawny had been a"
"bought a copy of the comic book and said to himself, ""Hey, I do kind of look like that kid."" Though Coghlan played more than 100 other parts, his role as Billy Batson led to his most lasting fame. In 1990, the ""Los Angeles Times"" published a profile about Coghlan's celebrity under the headline ""Shazam! Actor Turning Into Celebrity."" The article noted that Coghlan ""may be reaching his finest hour"" as the continuing popularity of ""Captain Marvel"" kept Coghlan busy. Coghlan noted at the time: Coghlan attributed the long-term popularity of the 1941 serial to the fact that the shows"