She debuted in Marvel Super-heroes #13, as an officer in the Air Force with no powers whatsoever. This led to a long line of characters carrying the name, none of which were all that popular, until Carol Danvers (the current Captain Marvel) came into the picture…after a long time.Ĭarol Danvers as a character has been around since 1968. Thus, once the name was fully cleansed, Marvel created a new character, also named Captain Marvel (I suppose copyright and creativity don’t go hand-in-hand), in 1973. However, Marvel convinced them to stop publishing it, because it carried their company name. Enterprises published a short-lived Captain Marvel series. You thought it would be Marvel to pick up the character immediately? Nope! In 1966, M.F. This led to the name “Captain Marvel” being released of all trademark and copyright restrictions, so things began stewing in another popular comic book company - M.F. Eventually, though, DC Comics (who was publishing Superman) sued Fawcett Comics for “copying Superman,” and halted publication of stories with the character in 1953. Apparently comic book superhero movies are about as old as the comic books themselves.
He was also the first comic book superhero to appear in a film (technically a serial), entitled Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941). Throughout the decade, he was actually the most popular comics character of the 1940s based on book sales, beating out even Superman. In fact, Shazam has been around since 1940, when he first appeared in Whiz Comics #2, published by Fawcett Comics. Though he is now a DC character, he didn’t start off that way. Shazam was actually the original Captain Marvel. The two characters have a strange, intertwined, copyright-entrenched past that has been buried by time. When I first saw that Captain Marvel and Shazam were coming out within a month of each other, I nearly laughed out loud.
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