They acquired the rights to Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family from Fawcett, starting off with a pay-per-use arrangement but eventually owning the character outright. By this time superhero comics were enjoying a resurgence, and DC was actively expanding its stable of characters. The character languished in obscurity until around 1972. At this point the market for superhero comics was in decline, Fawcett decided it was best to settle with DC, and shut down its comic-book operation. The case went to court a couple times, with judges in general finding that there were some elements of the character and his stories that could be copyright infringements and elements that clearly weren’t. Which might have had something to do with Detective Comics (Superman’s publishers) suing Fawcett Comics (publishers of Captain Marvel) for copyright infringement. The Shazam franchise has a lot of untapped potential, which makes any new iteration of it something to get excited about.ĭuring the “Golden Age” of superhero comics – from around the late 1930s into the 1950s – Captain Marvel was selling more comics than anyone else, even the celebrated Superman. It’s not just what they have done or are doing with it, but the possibilities of what could be done. But to me, part of the fun of any hero, mythology, or franchise like this is in its potential. So of course, comic book publishers have generally never known quite what to do with the character. To me, it has always teased at the kind of deeply transcendent spirituality which Lewis excelled at. Currently going by Shazam!, the Hero Formerly Known as Captain Marvel is steeped in a potpourri of Classical Mythological references, of Ancient Magic, and of ordinary youth in extraordinary circumstances, drawing on Mysteries of the past to become the best possible versions of themselves. Lewis had ever tried his hand at the American comic-book superhero genre, he might have come up with something like this.
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