That Warner Bros.’ Shazam! arrives in theaters just weeks after Marvel’s Captain Marvel is a strange probable coincidence that underscores the long-running, often litigious history shared by ...

Shazam! stars a superhero with a publishing history more convoluted than his origin story, and strangely enough, happens to have an odd connection to the recently released Captain Marvel. Shazam ...

Created in 1940 by Bill Parker and C.C. Beck, Shazam was first known as Captain Marvel, but his publishers lost the rights to that name to Marvel Comics.

So, Captain Marvel was Shazam! which is a D.C. comic, but now they're two seperate heroes owned by two separate entities. It's like when there's a Jamie and a Jaime, and ones a guy and one's a girl.

Captain Marvel - while something of a B-list Marvel character for most of the history of the women and men who have held the title - has been elevated to A-list over the last few years takes to ...

“Captain Marvel” opens with sneak previews on the evening of Thursday March 7th at Regal Salisbury Cinemas, look for “Shazam!” to be opening there on or around April 5th. Carlo DiSalvo is ...

Captain Marvel will finally be making his debut in DC's New 52 universe this month, but not without some changes. For one, he'll now be referred to as Shazam instead of Captain Marvel.

Obviously, you’re a Captain Marvel/Shazam fan, and I understand your consternation that a Marvel Comics character has absconded with the name of another hero who’s been around for 80 years.

Superman sued Shazam for $4 million dollars, and it was a major upset in the comic-book community. But it paved the way for the today's Captain Marvel.

Once upon a time, Shazam was known as Captain Marvel. But when the character was bought by DC Comics, the very company that had once stopped it from being published, they were now unable to call ...

Captain Marvel has finally landed in theaters, and DC’s Shazam! will soon follow suit. As a result, there has been a bit of confusion online in regards to the character of Shazam previously ...