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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 — 5 days 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.

Shazam! #2

Knight Terrors: Shazam! #2

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.)

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u/CaptainMarvelology — 8 days ago
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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 — 10 days 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 — 13 days 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.

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u/CaptainMarvelology — 17 days 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 — 25 days 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 — 25 days ago