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Three months in a row…
This is now the third straight month that the post-Flashpoint Earth-0 version has been called Captain Marvel.
(Justice League Unlimited #20).
u/CaptainMarvelology — 11 days ago
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Mary Marvel Was The First To Use Her Lightning As A Weapon
Most fans believe that the first time that the Shazam lightning was used as a weapon was in Kingdom Come when that version of Captain Marvel used it against Superman, but it was really Mary Marvel who first did it in 1945, right around the height of the Golden Age.
It did little harm to Dr. Sivana, but in the Golden Age, there was a lot of inconsistency with how much effect magic lightning (whether the Shazam lightning or otherwise) had on people (and the same was true even with nornal lightning!), so take it for what it's worth.
u/CaptainMarvelology — 16 days ago
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Captain Marvel, arguably if not outright the first superhero to do a thunderclap in the comics.
Usually a move that's more associated with the Hulk, Captain Marvel was making waves - pun intended - with it in the 1950's. (Captain Marvel Adventures #149 [August, 1953])
u/CaptainMarvelology — 21 days ago
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Thor/Shazam! crossover in Dead of Knight now available for pre-order.
The Dead of Knight collected trade is now up for pre-order.
It’s got the Thor/Shazam! crossover — one of the best comics of 2025 — that was published digital-only on the Marvel Unlimited app.
You should be able to order through your LCS or through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.
u/CaptainMarvelology — 1 month ago
Who Really Did It First? Superman or Captain Marvel?
So I saw the hilarious Super Antics #17 one-pager by Kerry Callen (see Pic 1) come up in my feed here on Reddit and I'm sure a few have wondered (okay, maybe just one person did and that person is me)...
Who broke chains with exaggerated dynamism first?
So I researched it.
Unsurprisingly, Captain Marvel did it first.
In WHIZ Comics #3, Captain Marvel broke chains in exaggerated fashion like it's portrayed in Super Antics (see Pic 2 above).
Interestingly, that panel is pasted from the cover of his ashcan issues (both Thrill Comics and Flash Comics).
The first time Superman breaks chains in a comic is the footer panel of Action Comics #1 (see Pic 3 above) and he breaks it at the weak point.
Superman would not break chains in an exaggerated manner until the cover of Superman #11 (see Pic 4 above) more than a year after Captain Marvel did it first.
u/CaptainMarvelology — 2 months ago
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Mark Waid Didn't Just Bring (Mostly) Bring Back The Wisdom of Solomon, He Brought Back The Courage of Achilles.
In which a fear-based villain and a supernatural nightmare/nightmare realm did not work and were overcome by, respectively, those with the Courage of Achilles.
(Pics from Shazam! #2 and Knight Terrors: Shazam! #2, respectively.)
u/CaptainMarvelology — 2 months ago
CBR is now calling him Captain Marvel in their articles.
Years and years of referring to him as Shazam, CBR is now calling him and his family, Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family, respectively.
u/CaptainMarvelology — 2 months ago
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First appearance of Mr. Atom
Finally came in the mail!
I finally found and bought a (relatively) solid copy Captain Marvel Adventures #78.
First appearance of Mr. Atom, Captain Marvel’s most powerful villain and my favorite of his rogues gallery (owing to my love of superheroes fighting giant freakin’ robots).
It will have a low grade, probably in the 3.0 to 3.5 range (or worse), but I’m planning to get it graded.
u/CaptainMarvelology — 2 months ago
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Kind of a random musing today, but I was thinking about how I couldn’t decide which character has been done the most dirty when it comes to their super-intelligence in the past few decades, Superman or Captain Marvel…
But then I remembered all the times that the New 52 version is portrayed as a clueless kid who doesn’t know what he’s doing, he’s just an idiot, or that he’s brainless muscle.
They don’t just ignore Captain Marvel’s super-intelligence, they deliberately dumb him down.
Even when creators like Mark Waid don’t dumb him down, even he couldn’t commit to including Captain Marvel’s super-intelligence as part of the Wisdom of Solomon when defining it in his own series (though, to Waid’s credit, Captain Marvel performs rocket science in the first issue).
Superman, meanwhile, doesn’t get dumbed down; they just basically ignore that he has super-intelligence.
So I give it to Captain Marvel in this particular case.
u/CaptainMarvelology — 2 months ago
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Was happy to see the return of Captain Marvel as the name of the main version for the first time since Post-Crisis, so I started an illustration of a classic-style Captain Marvel. I will be doing colors next.
u/CaptainMarvelology — 2 months ago
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Was happy to see the return of Captain Marvel as the name of the main version for the first time since Post-Crisis, so I started an illustration of a classic-style Captain Marvel. I will be doing colors next.
u/CaptainMarvelology — 2 months ago