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[[Image:ARoss Captain Marvel.png|right|300px|thumb|''Captain Marvel'', by Alex Ross]]
[[Image:ARoss Captain Marvel.png|right|300px|thumb|''Captain Marvel'', by Alex Ross]]
'''Captain Marvel''', a superhero magically brought to life when young Billy Batson speaks the word "'''Shazam!'''", is a [[comic book]] character created by [[C. C. Beck]] for Fawcett Publications in 1939. At one time the largest-selling character in its genre, litigation by rival National Periodical Publications (now D.C. Comics) caused a ceasing of publication for many years and the folding of Fawcett's comics division, as well as the rights to Captain Marvel transferred to D.C.
'''Captain Marvel''', a superhero magically brought to life when young Billy Batson speaks the word "'''Shazam!'''", is a [[comic book]] character created by [[C. C. Beck]] for Fawcett Publications in 1939. At one time the largest-selling character in its genre, litigation by rival National Periodical Publications (now D.C. Comics) caused a ceasing of publication for many years and the folding of Fawcett's comics division, as well as the rights to Captain Marvel transferred to D.C.
==Comics lore==
Young Billy Batson, a kid abandoned by his parents and forced to survive on the streets selling newspapers. One day he was led into an abandoned subway tunnel by a mysterious stranger; the end of the journey found him before a wizard on a throne. Amid the cracklings of thunder and lightling, the wizard proclaims "I am Shazam!" and tells Billy that he has been selected to be his new champion to fight evil. On the wall behind the wizard, Billy notices the inscriptions of the great elders whose names form Shazam: [[Solomon]] (wisdom); [[Hercules]] (strength); [[Atlas]] (stamina); [[Zeus]] (power); [[Achilles]] (courage); and [[Mercury]] (speed). Shazam then says "Speak my name". As Billy does that, a bolt of lightning hits him and he is magically transformed into Captain Marvel.
==Film and television==
==Film and television==
==References==
==References==
*Muir, John Kenneth. ''The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television'', McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina (2004)
*Muir, John Kenneth. ''The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television'', McFarland & Company, Jefferson, North Carolina (2004)
==Links==
*[http://www.marvelfamily.com/ The Marvel Family Web]