History: Billy and his sister Mary were orphaned as infants, and Billy was taken in by his Uncle Ebenezer. Once Ebenezer laid claim to Billy's inheritance he tossed the child out onto the streets.

(Shazam! I #1) - <1940> Billy survived as a newsie, and one night while he was hawking papers a stranger led him into the subways, where Billy got aboard an unusual train that dropped him off in a subterranean cavern. In the cavern he met Shazam, an ancient wizard who used his powers to battle evil for thousands of years. Shazam passed his powers onto Billy, who only had to say Shazam! to become the adult superhero Captain Marvel. Having passed on his powers, Shazam allowed himself to be killed by a falling block of granite. Shazam's spirit told his protégé that it was his duty to fight all evil, and if he was ever in need on guidance he could light a brazier to summon his spirit.

(Whiz Comics (Fawcett) #21) -Billye met three other young men named Billy Batson, who went by the nicknames Fat Batson, Hill Billy Batson and Tall Batson. They were members of the Billy Batson Fan Club, and were eager to meet their famous namesake. Billy shared his secret about being Captain Marvel. The other Billys wondered if they’d have Captain Marvel powers if they said the magic word, but Captain Marvel warned them that great power was nothing to play around with. He gave them a thrill by taking them along to capture a gang of criminals who’d robbed the post office. Captain Marvel’s arch-nemesis Sivana recruited three other foes of Marvel, Biggy Brix, Captain Death and Herr Geyer to form the Vengeful Four. Sivana revealed that Captain Marvel’s secret identity was Billy Batson, and sent his men out to scour hotel registries so they could find and abduct Billy. The villains kidnapped Tall Billy, Fat Billy and Hill Billy, but failed to find their actual target. When Sivana learned that the Billys were friends with his nemesis he sent a ransom note to radio station WHIZ, demanding Billy show up at an abandoned saw-mill or his friends would be killed. Billy knew it was a trap, but had no choice, and when he arrived the Vengeful Four knocked him out and gagged him so he couldn’t say Shazam. Sivana tied all the Bilys to a log and started up the saw, gloating that he was leaving them to their doom. As they inched closer to the saw Billy managed to use it to cut through his gag, but when he said Shazam the sound of his voice was drowned out. He asked his new friends for help, and when they all said the word Shazam they were given the powers of Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel and his new Lieutenant Marvels Fat Marvel, Hill Billy Marvel and Tall Marvel spotted the Vengeful Four flying off in Sivanas plane and crashed through it, with the Vengeful Four seemingly perishing in the crash. Billy’s friends were overjoyed at being able to team up with their hero.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #4) - The Lieutenant Marvels visited Billy Batson, excited for his next broadcast. Sivana, with his daughter Beautia in tow, was stalking Billy, and ordered his thugs to run him down with a car. Billy spotted them in time to change into Captain Marvel and thrash the goons. Billy did a broadcast on WHIZ about the near hit-and-run and how he was saved by Captain Marvel. Sterling Morris was thrilled by the broadcast, but was worried that Sivana would go after Billy again. Sivana told his goons to kidnap Billy Batson, and Beautia spoke up, saying her dad should just leave Billy alone. He blew her off, saying Billy stood in his way as ruler of the universe. His thugs kidnapped the Lieutenant Marvels, but Captain Marvel managed to trail the crooks back to Sivana’s hideout. Sivana tied up the Lieutenants and put them under a bladed pendulum death trap. Marvel burst on the scene and his Lieutenants said Shazam! turning into Marvels. They thrashed Sivana’s gang while Sivana fled, and found Beautia tied up in a closet. She said her father had turned against her because she questioned his methods, and warned them Sivana was going to blow up the hideout. The Marvels flew her to safety as the hideout blew up. The explosion was extensive, and Beautia wept, fearing her father had blown himself up, but Captain Marvel comforted her, saying Sivana was far too devious to die by his own hand.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #4) - Captain Marvel saw a plane running out of fuel and about to crash. He saved the pilot, who told him he was a defector from Nazi Germany. Hitler was working on a top secret project driven by the labor of the countries he’d enslaved on the western shore of Europe, and Marvel went to investigate. Upon reaching Europe he changed back into billy Batson and allowed himself to be taken by the Nazis, who put him to work with their other prisoners. The prisoners told Billy they were constructing an underground tunnel meant to reach America. Hitler planned to launch a surprise attack against the USA once the project was completed. Billy knew he could destroy the tunnel as Captain marvel, but couldn’t risk his fellow prisoners safety. As Marvel he confronted Hitler, who begged him not to kill him. Marvel terrified him by saying he was planning his death for a special time in a special way, leaving the Fuhrer shaken. Marvel returned to the tunnel and dug all the way to America within minutes, sending the prisoners to safety and freedom. He engaged the Nazi army until the prisoners had enough time to escape, and then said he surrendered. The Nazi army made their way through the the transatlantic tunnel only for Captain Marvel to destroy it, dooming them to drown at the bottom of the sea.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #4) - Captain Marvel witnessed a man being pursed by foreign agents and easily bested the pursuers, saving the man. The man revealed that the Nazis were building a secret base in South America, but before he could go into details, another foreign agent, hidden in the shadows, fatally shot him. Billy Batson reported the story on WHIZ and assured the public Captain Marvel would be looking into it. Sterling Morris was amazed with the stories Billy broke, and wondered briefly if he might be working with Captain Marvel before dismissing the thought. Nazi agent Mr. Fog and his henchmen kidnapped Billy, taking him aboard a ship to the South American base. Fog’s cook tried to feed Billy poison to finish him off, but he changed into captain marvel and caused chaos aboard the ship. Fog radioed Baron Von Slugg in south America, requesting he send a u-boat as backup. Marvel picked the ship up in the air before leaving it with the coast guard. Marvel confronted the u-boat underwater and laughed off some torpedoes before flying it, too, to the coast guard. Marvel’s efforts had foiled the Nazis attempts to set up a u-boat base in south America.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #4) - Sterling Morris sent Billy to cover the trial of mobster Giggy Golton, prosecuted by the crusading Mr. Shaw. Shaw’s main witness, Officer Flynn, took the stand but was killed by a sniper who shot through the courthouse window. Billy went into action as Captain Marvel and apprehended the sniper, bringing him into the courtroom. Shaw demanded he testify that Golton had instructed him to murder Flynn, but Golton surreptitiously kicked the sniper’s rifle, which Shaw was holding, felling the sniper. The judge had no choice but to dismiss the charges against Golton. Billy did a WHIZ report stating that Shaw was uncovering new evidence to bring Golton to trial again, and said all of Fawcett city commended him for his bravery. Golton didn’t like Billy mouthing off on his radio show, so he sent his henchman Beefy to rough him up. Captain Marvel gave Beefy a whooping and a fat nose. Billy was interviewing Shaw when Golton and his men burst in, pistol whipping Billy and kidnapping Shaw. Golton’s men tossed Billy into a cement mixer, but he escaped by changing into Marvel and rounded them up. Beefy told Marvel Golton didn’t recognize him with his fat nose and kicked him out of the gang, so he wanted revenge. He directed Marvel to Golton’s hideout by Lake Henderson where he was preparing to torture the prosecutor. Marvel saved the day but Golton managed to flee. To thank Beefy for his help Marvel squished his nose back into its’ proper shape. Marvel flew in front of Galton’s car, causing it to crash. Shaw brought Golton to trial again and scored a conviction.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #5) - Billy Batson covered a screening of Captain Marvel films for the Municipal Orphan’s Home. Beautia Sivana was hosting the event, and nearly swooned when she told Billy that Captain Marvel himself would be appearing. Billy was suspicious, since o one had contacted him about making an appearance. The show’s benefactor introduced a fake Captain Marvel, who abducted orphan Katinka. Billy changed into Captain Marvel and confronted the benefactor, who turned out to be Sivana in disguise. Sivana escaped, and Marvel willingly went to the police station to answer questions about Katina’s kidnapping. An ambassador from Mentonia arrived, declaring that Katinka was the princess of his country who’d disappeared shortly after her birth, and he demanded her back. Beautia told the police she’d testify against Marvel, and had lost all faith in him. Marvel refused to be arrested while Katinka was in peril and flew off to rescue her. Sivana kidnapped Beautia, telling her he was responsible for kidnapping Katinka so he could ransom her, but didn’t want his daughter talking. The fake Captain Marvel helped her escape and drove her to Toughtown, where Katinka was being kept. Sivana showed up again, saying he was only teasing Beautia by giving her hope of rescuing Katinka. He intended to implicate her in the kidnapping alongside Captain Marvel because he wanted to punish her for turning against her evil family. He explained that the fake Marvel was actually heavyweight boxer Bummy Bond, who’d undergone facial reconstruction for the ruse. Captain Marvel showed up with the police, and to prove the kidnapper was an imposter he knocked him out with one blow. Beautia said she’d return Katinka to her family, and apologized to Marvel for being too quick to judge him, but Marvel wasn’t worried about it, saying that everyone made mistakes.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #5) - Sterling Morris had Billy Batson cover a series of volcanic eruptions in the Rocky Mountains. As Captain Marvel he saved an infant from a lavaflow about to inundate his house. Marvel noticed a carved block of stone coming from one of the previously dormant volcanoes, and suspected that the eruptions were man-made. Billy was kidnapped by the King of the Crater and his army. The King discovered a ring of fire stretching from the Rockies down to South America, and used machines to cause the eruptions. He planned to carve out his own domain in the U.S. under his absolute rule. He was aware of Billy’s fame as a newscaster and told him to broadcast his demands. Billy made a WHIZ broadcast, but assured people not to worry because he assured them Captain Marvel would foil the King of the Crater. The Kind didn’t like being disobeyed and threw Billy down a shaft into a volcano, but he changed back into Captain Marvel to save himself. He discovered the King’s machinery, which included a pipeline drilled down into the center of the Earth, and the King unleashed his troops on him. They used a hose to shoot lava at him, which Call and hurled at the volcano machinery, destroying it. The people of the Rockies were revolting, so the king was prepared to drown them all in lava, but Marvel informed him his machinery was destroyed. The King was apoplectic, saying that by doing so he’d released all the pressure of the volcano and it would unleash a tremendous explosion. The kind committed suicide, diving down into the drill hole. Marvel used the king’s drilling machines to burrow through the earth so that the lava from the volcanic explosion was diverted, filling a remote canyon with lava.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #5) - Billy Batson came to swamp country to report on a demonic Swamp Devil the residents were all terrified by. Mammy and Pappy Sims took him into their cabin and said they’d give him a story even though they were frightened of even saying the Swamp Devil’s name. Residents of swamp country eked out a living through farming, and were happy when a government program came to the area to drain the swampland to make more farmland. The Swamp Devil then started showing up, harassing and threatening the residents for daring to disturb his swamp. Posses went into the swamp to hunt him down but never came back. The Swamp Devil then showed up to threaten Billy and the Sims. Batson changed into Captain Marvel and hit the Devil with a punch that knocked him back into the swamp. The Devil retreated, swimming underwater and the next day Billy visited Mr. Woggs, the government engineer. He didn’t believe in the Swamp Devil, and claimed ignorance as to why the swamp kept spreading while he was trying to drain it. Sims gathered a posse, having gained confidence after seeing Captain Marvel knock the Swamp Devil for a loop. Deep in the swamp the Devil confronted them and doused them with hypnotizing gas, ordering them to walk further into the swamp until they drowned. Captain Marvel went into action and dove underwater to save the villagers. He found a retaining wall that was damming the swamp and knocked it down, draining the swampland and saving the posse. Marvel found the Devil’s hideout that had been underwater and discovered that the Devil’s costume, realizing he was no mythical monster. Marvel confronted Woggs, accusing him of posing as the Swamp Devil and flooding swamp country so he could buy the land cheap. Woggs denied the charge, but Marvel proved that the Swamp Devil’s eye lenses matched the prescription glasses Woggs wore and the local constable took him to jail.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #5) - Sivana created a new chemical potion and had his goon Herman try it. Herman turned from a hulking bruiser into a small wizened man and Sivana explained to his other goon Endicot that the potion changed anyone into a completely different person, body and mind. Sivana gave Herman the antidote and crowed that his potion would finally remove Captain Marvel as a threat from his schemes to rule the world. Sivana went to the WHIZ station, and, posing as a soft drink vendor, got Billy Batson to drink the potion. Billy turned into a small bespectacled child, no longer aware that he was Captain Marvel. Sivana mobilized his criminal army to take over key U.S. cities and declared himself ruler over all. The public was in a panic, and billy came across children playing Captain Marvel, hoping their hero would return to save them. Billy asked them how to play, and they told him to just say the magic word Shazam. Billy changed into Captain Marvel, undoing the potion’s effects. He stormed Sivana’s newly built castle and garnered the support of the slaves he’d forced to protect him. Marvel found Sivana’s stores of his chemical potion and after curing the people Sivana had changed into other people destroyed them all except for one batch. He tore the castle apart until he found Sivana hiding in a chimney and forced him to drink the potion. Sivana turned into a mild-mannered gentleman and Marvel hoped that would be the end of Sivana as a threat.

(Master Comics (Fawcett) #21) - Hitler introduced his generals to his latest weapon in his war against the Allies, the superman Captain Nazi. Hitler showed him a poster of America’s greatest heroes, including Bulletman, and Captain Marvel and told him to go stateside and destroy them. Nazi went on a rampage in NYC, gleefully murdering civilians and challenging Captain Marvel and Bulletman to stop him. Marvel and Bullet-Man teamed up, with Marvel watching for Nazi on the west side and Bulletman keeping an eye out on the east side. Captain Nazi ripped up a subway railing, intent on killing the passengers of an oncoming subway car, but Captain Marvel got in front of the car and causing it to grind to a halt. Nazi escaped as Marvel repaired the rails. Nazi attacked a fairgrounds, toppling a Ferris wheel, and Bulletman showed up grabbing the Ferris wheel and bringing it down safely. When confronted Captain Nazi tossed a small child off a cliff, allowing him to escape while Bullet-Man flew to the boy’s rescue. Captain /Marvel kept Nazi from blowing up the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but he again escaped by tossing dynamite at Marvel. Bulletman and Bulletgirl arrived on the scene, happy to see that Marvel was unharmed, but Captain Nazi had left him a note saying he’d be coming after Captain Marvel again soon.

(Whiz Comics (Fawcett) #25) - Billy Batson made a WHIZ broadcast about Captain Nazi’s invasion of America, and Sterling Morris informed him that Nazi was attacking WHIZ’s radio sending station and sending out propaganda about how he was going to crush America’s heroes. Whitey Murphy climbed up the broadcast tower in a heroic attempt to stop him, but Nazi tossed him off, furious at being challenged by a boy. Captain Marvel flew into action and saved Whitey. Billy and Whitey went to cover the opening of a hydroelectric plant meant to serve the war effor, and Captain Nazi sabotages the turbines. Billy changed into Captain Marvel and Nazi scoffed at him, saying that if he stuck around to fight him the hydroelectric plant would explode, causing hundreds of deaths and hindering the American war effort, meaning that Captain Nazi had prevailed,. Marvel begrudgingly left the fight, using his incredible strength to grind the turbines to a halt. Billy and Whitey went to an airfield to cover the test flight of a secret fighter plane. Nazi had boarded the plane, choking the pilot to death so the plane would crash. Captain Marvel went into action again, hitting Captain Nazi and knocking him into a nearby bay. Orphan Freddy Freeman and his grandfather were fishing in the bay and saved the half-drowned Captain Nazi, who repaid them by killing the old man and leaving Freddy for dead. Captain Marvel discovered Freddy and rushed him to a hospital, but the doctors said he’d been crippled and expected him to die within the night. Marvel took Freddy to see the wizard Shazam, and asked him to save Freddy. Shazam told Marvel he couldn't do anything, but Marvel could save him by sharing his power with Freddy. Freddy spoke Captain Marvel's name, and was transformed by a bolt of lightning into Captain Marvel, Jr.

(America’s Greatest Comics (Fawcett) #2) - Billy Batson reported on a number of brutal park robberies committed by Stinko and his gang of youths. He told the police to get their act together or Captain Marvel would have to get involved. Chief Brannigan was furious at Billy’s comments, believing he was implying the police were incompetent, and contacted Sterling Morris, demanding a meeting with Billy. Brannigan told Billy Captain Marvel was a comic book phony so to prove him wrong Billy changed into Captain Marvel and performed several feats of strength. Brannigan called in two officers to beat up captain Marvel, who flew Brannigan over the park so he’d have time to cool down. They spotted a car accident and drove the victim to the hospital. On the way there they cut off a car full of mobsters, who were angered and promised they’d get Brannigan. Marvel and Brannigan agreed to work together, with Marvel posing as a police officer and patrolling the park. He stopped Stinko’s gang from robbing the food cart of a man named Steamboat Bill, who was grateful for Marvel’s assistance. Stinko knew his gang couldn’t whup Marvel in a fair fight, so he had his girlfriend Bubbles try to lure Marvel to a secluded spot with her feminine charm, but he didn’t bite. The mobsters showed up to get Brannigan and pulled their guns on him, but Steamboat Bill caused a distraction by letting the horse that pulled his food cart go wild. Marvel took care of the mobsters, and the fight convinced Stinko and his gang to go straight, so Marvel made them members of the Captain Marvel Club so they could make amends by fighting crime. Steamboat’s food cart got wrecked during the fight, and Marvel told him he’d find him a new line of work at WHIZ.

(Whiz Comics (Fawcett) #37) - Billy covered the opening of the Bargain & Brady Circus when star midget performer Colonel Toby Finger and his valet told Billy someone was trying to kidnap them. Two Trolls wanted to bring the little people back to Troll Mountain because when Captain Marvel split the mountain Trolls Tom-Nor and Otta escaped. Ancient Troll law stated that the population always had to be the same, and the little people would be substitutes for the missing Trolls. Marvel couldn't let them kidnap humans, so he brought them to the missing Trolls, who were nationwide celebrities because they were posing as babies and soon to be adopted by film star Lola D’Amour. Marvel caught gangster Doo Frisk and his gang trying to abduct the “babies” for a ransom and gave them a beating. Tom-Nor an Otta agreed to go home after seeing the beautiful Princess Ginger from a visiting Troll Nation. Marvel closed the mountain up so no more Trolls would escape.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #18) - Billy hosted the WHIZ quiz show the Mental Marvel Quiz, with the contestants being Freddy Freeman and rich girl Mary Bromfeld. During a commercial break Billy got a note from Sarah Primm, saying she was dying and it was urgent he go to see her. He changed into Captain Marvel to see her, and she revealed that she was his nurse when he was an infant. He had a twin sister, Mary, and when their parents died she despaired at the thought of sending them both to an orphanage, but she was also the nurse of the rich Mrs. Bromfeld, and when her infant daughter suddenly died Primm switched Mary with the dead baby so she’d be raised in luxury. When Mary was a young girl Sarah gave her half of a locket telling her that her life would change when she found the other half, not revealing that she intended to find Billy one day to give him the other half. Sarah gave him the other half of the locket and told him to find his sister. Mary won the quiz show, and Billy and Freddy pondered who his sister might be. Mary was abducted by some kidnappers, but saved by Captain Marvel and Captain Marvel, Jr. Cap saw her locket, and realizing she was his sister he changed back into Billy and told her the whole story. The kidnappers revived and knocked out Billy and Freddy. Mary said the magic word Shazam, which Billy used to change into Captain Marvel, and found herself transformed into Mary Marvel. She easily dispatched the kidnappers, and the Marvels visited the ghost of Shazam. He said he’d given powers to Mary, but she drew her strength from different gods than Billy and Freddy, giving her the wisdom of Selena, the strength of Hippolyta, the stamina of Ariadne, the power of Zephyrus, the courage of Aurora and the speed of Minerva. Together they were now one big happy Marvel Family

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #38) - Captain Marvel couldn’t stop the lava flow, but thankfully when it flowed over the TNT it melted instead of igniting, and Marvel remembered that high explosives were set off by fulminate and not fire. Mr. Mind gloated in his miniature spaceship until he saw Captain Marvel flying at him and realized he’d been foiled. Mind flew into a flock of birds, managing to evade his nemesis. Billy Batson broadcast a warning that Mr. Mind was still on the loose, and director Hitchblock of Eastern Elephantine Studios sent Captain Marvel a letter, saying he was doing a film version of Mr. Minds wrongdoings and needed his technical advice. Captain Marvel was happy to help, believing it was important the world was warned about how dangerous Mind was, and he was impressed with the mechanical worm Hitchblock whipped up as a stand-in for Mind. Mr. Mind got word about the film from his underlings, and saw an opportunity to sow chaos. He also wanted to make sure he was being portrayed as evil and devious as he deserved to be. A janitor on the film set spotted him, so Mind took the place of the mechanical worm to hide in plain sight. Hitchblock needed an extra to play a boy in peril who the Monster Society would fling off a cliff, and Captain Marvel changed into Billy Batson to volunteer. Mr. Mind alerted his new Monster Society recruits, the Crocodile Men, and had them take the place of the other actors in the scene. The Crocodile Men were supposed to pull Billy back from the cliff edge at the last moment, but ignored the director and tossed Billy to his doom.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #39) - Mr. Mind had his Crocodile Men round up Hitchblock and his actors, planning to film Mr. Mind, Murder Master! In which he’d depict the Monster Society taking over the world. He had his lackey Bonzo go to the dressing room to play the part of Captain Marvel. Billy survived his fall, since the jagged rocks he landed on were rubber props, and after changing into Captain Marvel he took Bonzo’s place. Mr. Mind wanted to film the Crocodile Men torturing Hitchblock and his crew to death, but the weapons the Crocodile Men chose were all rubber props, infuriating the villain. Captain Marvel revealed his presence, knocking out the Crocodile Men after a brief brawl. Mr. Mind had another trick up his sleeve, activating his Black Death Ray and turning it on Captain Marvel, who started to dissolve into a cloud of smoke.

(Marvel Family (Fawcett) #1) - Sterling Morris got a report of an identified object from deep space approaching Earth at the speed of light, and asked Billy to cover the story. Billy visited an observatory, but the astronomers were baffled. The object turned out to be Black Adam, who’d been flying towards Earth for thousands of years. He arrived and proclaimed that he would conquer the planet. Captain Marvel and Marvel, Jr. Confronted him, but their powers were too evenly matched and they fought to a standstill before Adam decided to retreat for the moment. The Marvels changed back into Billy and Freddy to see Shazam and ask him if he knew anything about Black Adam, whose powers were so similar to theirs. Unbeknownst to them Black Adam was following them. Shazam told the boys that thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt he made Teth-Adam into Mighty Adam, his first champion. Adam’s power corrupted him, and after killing the pharaoh he declared himself ruler of Egypt. As punishment Shazam renamed him Black Adam and banished him to the furthest star in the universe, never realizing he’d be determined enough to find his way back to Earth. Shazam vanished and Black Adam tied up Freddy and Billy, gagging them so they couldn’t say the magic words that gave them power. Mary Marvel and Uncle Marvel realized the boys were missing, and made their way to Shazam’s throne room only to discover their friends trussed up. Mary fought Black Adam, while Uncle Marvel freed the boys and summoned Shazam, asking him how to defeat Black Adam. Shazam told Uncle Marvel he had to get Black Adam to say his name. Uncle Marvel told the Marvel Family that Black Adam was too powerful for them to defeat and said he should join their family. He annoyed Black Adam by mispronouncing Shazam’s name until Adam spoke the magic word, turning him back into Teth-Adam. His mortal form was 5,000 years old, and he rapidly turned into an elderly man before decaying into a skeleton. Shazam thanked the Marvel Family for destroying his worst mistake, and said he was glad he entrusted his power to good people.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #55) - Billy Batson saw an old man collecting foil and bits of string in the park to sell when the old man discovered a threat that had unraveled from a small dimensional portal. He kept pulling on the string, but on the other side was the dimension Zoozland, and the King of Zoozland was displeased to see one of his royal rugs unraveling through the dimensional portal. He ordered his guards to pull the string back, dragging the old man towards the portal, so Billy transformed into Captain Marvel to pull the old man and the string away from Zoozland. The King placed a bomb on the string to blow up whoever was on the other side of the portal, so Marvel had to fly it into space, where it harmlessly exploded. Marvel brought his scientist friend Dr. Grenn to explore the portal, and the old man, having attached a hook to the string, fed it back before reeling it in again, yielding a royal vase, further enraging the king. Marvel told the old man he was technically stealing, but Grenn just wanted to study the vase. The old man got caught on the hook and pulled into Zoozland. Captain Marvel's shoulders were too wide to enter the portal, so he turned back into Billy Batson, but when he entered Zoozland one of the royal guard knocked him unconscious. When he revived the King of Zoozland pronounced that the penalty for stealing in his kingdom was to burn out the thieves tongues. Billy quickly changed back into Marvel, made short work of the guards, and returned to Earth with the old man. Marvel pushed the rest of the string through, allowing the portal to close, saying it was a bad idea to make any further contact with Zoozland.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #59) - Aunt Minerva was an unassuming old woman and secretly a ruthless crimelord. She had respect and money, with every criminal in the city cutting her in on their action and paying her tribute, but was lonely because her previous five husbands had all passed away. She got a flyer for Shazam Inc. In the mail promising to solve anyone’s problems and visited Uncle Dudley’s office. Dudley was chatting with Billy Batson and she explained her dilemma. Criminal Handsome Harry was sick of giving a percentage of his earnings to Minerva, and came to Shazam Inc. To see if they could send her to prison. Harry was surprised to see Minerva, and a gunfight ensued. Dudley and Billy changed into Uncle Marvel and Captain Marvel and easily handled Harry and his men. Aunt Minerva was furious at Harry’s defiance, and after cutting the lights she kidnapped him and his men. She’d become enamored with Uncle Marvel and decided to abscond with him as well. Aunt Minerva informed him they’d be married as soon as possible, and a panicked Uncle phoned up Captain Marvel, asking him to save him. Aunt Minerva blasted Captain Marvel with her pistol, but he shrugged it off and spanked her to teach her a lesson. Aunt Minerva then developed a crush on Captain Marvel, and as she was dragged away by the police she promised to see him again.

(Marvel Family (Fawcett) #4) - Billy invited Mary and Freddy to WHIZ to watch the station's latest program, "The Witch's Hour," in which Ellie Hawkins told scary stories. Three witches flew into the studio on a broomstick and abducted Ellie, so Billy, Mary and Freddy transformed into the Marvel Family and went in pursuit of them. The witches lost the Marvels in a stormcloud, so the Marvels split up to cover more ground to find them again. Captain Marvel, Jr. found their cave, but the witches cast a spell forcing him to stand on his head. He broke the spell by turning back into Freddy Freeman, and the witches grabbed him and tried to turn him into a bat. Mary saw the lightning bolt that accompanied Freddy's transformation, and rushed to the cave. She knocked out two of the witches, but the third fled on her broomstick with Ellie in tow. Captain Marvel caught her and rescued Ellie, but the Marvels couldn't agree on what to do with the witches. Ellie admitted that she was a witch and used to be in their coven before striking out for the big city to make her name in radio. She asked the Marvels to find her fellow witches a productive job, so Billy set them up as a singing quartet, and the reformed witches found instant fame at WHIZ.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #71) - Worldwide Captain Marvel Day was announced, and Captain Marvel was invited to appear in Washington, D.C., Paris, France, Moscow, Russia and Chungking, China. The only problem was that the appearances were slated at the same time, so Captain Marvel visited his Lieutenants Hill Billy Marvel, Tall Marvel and Fat Marvel, asking them to fill-in at three of the locations. Sivana was outraged that Captain Marvel was being celebrated by the world, and knowing he could only be at one of the four main celebrations he determined to wreck them all using his Instantaneous Rocket Ship. He showed up in Washington, deflating a Captain Marvel balloon that threatened to smother the crowd underneath. Fat Marvel flung the balloon away, but before he could get his hands on Sivana, the mad scientist was off. Sivana used a blowtorch on the Eiffel Tower to bring it down, but Hill Billy Marvel chased him off. In Moscow he threw a bomb  into the crowd, which was caught and defused by Tall Marvel. In China Sivana hid inside a dragon float and released poison gas, but was foiled by Captain Marvel. Marvel told him how he could be in four places at once, and tore out the motor on Sivana’s Instantaneous Rocket Ship. He had an auxiliary motor and flew off, but was caught in international waters by Captain Marvel. They’d crossed the International Date Line, and Captain Marvel was amused that he’d caught Sivana on a Tuesday for crimes he committed on Wednesday. Sivana said he never wanted to think about time again and just wanted to go to jail.

(Marvel Family (Fawcett) #10) - On the Marvel Family Round-Table television program Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel, Jr, Mary Marvel and Uncle Marvel talked about the threat Sivana posed to the world. Sivana met with his children Sivana, Jr. and Georgia Sivana, saying that since they’d failed to take the Marvel Family down on their own they needed to team up as the Sivana Family. Sivana developed a machine to destroy the Marvels, but when he tried to test it by measuring the voltage of Shazam lightning the power surge broke the meter. Sivana knew he needed a power source greater than an atomic bomb to make his machine work. Sivana, Jr. Had uncovered manuscripts from ancient Atlantis about protium, an element even more powerful than plutonium. Protium was a radioactive element that turned into neutrium after 10,000 years and electrium after another 10,000. Sivana wanted samples of all three elements but knew they’d need to time travel. Fortunately for him he knew all the Marvel Family’s secrets and they could reach the future and the past from the Rock of Eternity. The Sivana Family flew their rocketships faster than the speed of light to reach the Rock, and Shazam alerted the Marvel Family. Mary Marvel followed Georgia Sivana to the Atlantis of 8,000 B.C. Chal-Patzun was the Atlantean professor who discovered protium and Georgia met up with him, learning that he’d correctly predicted Atlantis was about to sink,. Chal-Patzun showed her his machine powered by protium that he said could save Atlantis, and she hit him over the head with a stick. Mary Marvel arrived in time to restrain Georgia. Chal-Patzun explained that Atlantis was doomed, but after 20,000 years the protium in his machine would be changed into electrium which could be used to raise the city again and restore it to its’ former glory. Chal-Patzun had sent his son away from Atlantis with the secrets of how to operate the machine, and his son would pass that knowledge on to his children and his children’s children. Mary Marvel changed back into Mary Batson to see if her magic lightning could speed up the change of protium to electrium to no avail. The cataclysm hit Atlantis and the city sank, and Georgia managed to restrain Mary, steal a vial of protium and escape in her rocketship with Mary as her prisoner. In the present Sivana kidnapped Dr. Charles Patterson, the descendant of Chal-Patzun, and forced him to show sivana were Atlantis was under the waves. Captain Marvel pursed him underwater, but Sivana used a giant electric eel to shock Marvel and turn him back into Billy Batson. Sivana took a vial of neutrium from Chal-Patzun’s machine, fatally shot Dr. Patterson and left with Billy as his prisoner. In the future of year 12000 Chass Passon, Chal-Patzun’s descendant, used the remaining electrium to finally raise Atlantis. Sivana, Jr. Clocked him with a wrench, but Captain Marvel, Jr. Ran him off. Marvel, Jr. Introduced himself to Passon, but by saying Captain Marvel he changed back into Freddy Freeman. Sivana, Jr. Knocked him out with a rock, took a vial of electrium and returned to the present with Freddy in tow. Sivana powered his machine, which created a cloud of free electrons around Earth, deflecting the Shazam lightning when the Marvels said their magic words. Sivana showed off his newly built palace, confident that without the Marvel Family to thwart him his family would assume their rightful role as rulers of the universe. The Sivana Family let the Marvels loose on the grounds to hunt them for sport, but Billy was wily enough to evade them and make his way to Sivana’s machine, depowering it. The Marvels said their magic words, wrecked the machine, and defeated the Sivanas.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #79) - Talking tiger Mr. Tawny had a desire to see civilization, and stowed away on a ship to America and visited Fawcett City. A dock worker spotted him and screamed his head off about a tiger on the loose. Billy Batson was nearby and changed into Captain Marvel. Mr. Tawny tried to explain that he meant no harm, but Marvel who thought he was hearing things because tigers couldn’t talk, laid him out with one punch. Tawny woke up in a zoo, and thought the hermit might have had a point about how rotten civilization was. In a rage he broke his cage bars and fled. He went to a restaurant, but the waiter ran away, as did a tailor at a clothing shop, so Tawkny decided to pick out his own natty threads so he’d feel civilized. Captain Marvel confronted him, but finally started listening to Tawny and realized he was no threat. Tawny just wanted to live in the city, and Marvel found him a job as a museum guide. Tawny would later aid Marvel in numerous adventures. Billy Batson reported the story of Mr. Tawky Tawny on radio WHIZ, and realized he never asked Mr. Tawny how it came to be that he could talk.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #80) - Sivana brooded in his lab thinking about all the times Captain Marvel foiled his evil schemes, and said he wished Captain Marvel had never been born. He had a eureka moment, deciding to travel to the past and kill Billy Batson before he became Captain Marvel, and whipped up two Time Pills. Captain Marvel, tipped off to the location of his lab, burst in, and was about to apprehend the evil scientist when he vanished into the past. As an unexpected side-effect of time travel Sivana lost his memories of the past, which were now the future. He passed Billy Batson hawking papers outside a subway station and bought one, gloating at the headline story of a phantom scientist threatening to destroy U.S. radio. Shazam bestowed the power of Captain Marvel, got a job offer from Sterling Morris of WHIZ and he foiled Sivana’s plans, with the past being unchanged. Sivana found his other Time Pill and swallowed it, returning to the present. His memories came flooding back, and he was angry he’d been unable to alter the past. Captain Marvel was still waiting for him in his lab, and hauled him off to jail.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #82) - Billy Batson wanted to interview Tawny about how he came to talk, and Tawny agreed to meet him at his home that night. Billy heard a gunshot and after changing into Captain Marvel went into action. He found engineer Thomas Todd holding a gun and standing over the body of his boss J.C. Garner. Todd said someone shot Todd from the window, tossed the gun inside, and he’d caught it. The police arrived, and arrested Todd, telling Captain Marvel his testimony would send Todd to the electric chair. Billy was still preoccupied when he met Mr. Tawny, who said by amazing coincidence he knew Todd, and had been looking for him in the city. He related the story of how Todd and his missionary father raised him, and how a hermit gave him a serum that endowed him with the power of speech. Tawny wad determined to prove his friend innocent, and after sniffing around outside Todd’s window he followed the scent of the real killer back to his apartment. He was Todd’s co-worker and killed their boss because he wanted the job Todd was getting. Tawny and Todd had a heartfelt reunion.

(Whiz Comics (Fawcett) #100) - WHIZ held a party for Captain Marvel, but Sivana crashed it and shot Marvel with a dimensional lightning gun, sending him into deep space. After visiting a few alien worlds with hostile inhabitants Marvel used his knowledge of the stars to find his way back to Earth. Sivana was committing a crime spree with an army of criminals, but Marvel quickly defeated them and rejoined the WHIZ party.

(Whiz Comics (Fawcett) #102) - Billy picked up a dollar bill and was attacked by crooks that tried to take it away from him. He changed to Captain Marvel and drove them off. The crook Lefty followed Billy home and tried again to get the money, but was subdued by Marvel. He confessed that his gang killed Lone Wolf Luke to get the dollar, which had a code that gave directions to Luke’s hidden stash of money. Marvel tried to break the code and was unsuccessful, so he called in a number of cryptologists, all of who failed. A mysterious man showed up and showed Marvel that invisible ink on the bill was the clue to breaking the code. He recovered the money, but was followed by Lefty’s gang. Marvel defeated them, and realized the mysterious stranger who broke the code was the ghost of Lone Wolf, who wanted revenge on the gang for killing him.

(Whiz Comics (Fawcett) #103) - Billy gave a report from a boys’ ranch, where the kids were prepping for their big annual rodeo. They were attacked by the Black Buzzard Gang, who were trying to drive them off the land, so Billy changed to Captain Marvel and forced them to retreat. He searched for oil and gold on the property, but found none, and wondered why the Gang wanted the land so badly. As Billy he was captured by the Gang, but freed himself and realized the ranch was on an enormous salt bed, which made the land valuable. Marvel defeated the gang, and told Tim Boyd, who ran the ranch, that the salt bed would finance them for some time to come.

(Whiz Comics (Fawcett) #109) - Sivana used his ghost machine to resurrect the spirits of his ancestors, all as evil as he. Captain Marvel fought off all of Sivana's ancestors, who returned to the spirit world after being defeated. Marvel confronted Sivana, who summoned his ancestor Black Sheep Sivana. Black Sheep was the only law-abiding Sivana in history and helped Marvel defeat Sivana and destroy the ghost machine.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #97) - Billy Batson tried to interview Professor Bright at his laboratory, but Bright turned him away, refusing to discuss his latest project. Billy spotted an enormous diamond on the street, and a crook immediately tried to snatch it from him, so he turned into Captain Marvel and knocked him out. Marvel took the diamond to jeweler Sam Skowl to see if it was real, and Skowl told him it was genuine, flawless, and worth millions. Marvel broadcast a message at Station WHIZ, asking the rightful owner of the diamond to contact him. Skowl, wanting the diamond for his own so he could retire for life, disguised himself as "Pierpont J. Van Dyke" and claimed to be the owner. When Marvel asked for proof Skowl snatched the diamond and fled the WHIZ building. Marvel soon caught up to him, so he tossed the diamond onto a passing coal truck to divert Marvel and make his escape. Skowl then forged a deed of ownership, disguised himself as "Chauncey Spinwheel," railroad magnate, and convinced Marvel to give him the diamond. A crook spotted him on the street, and when they struggled over the diamond his disguise came off, so when a police officer broke up the fight he fled. The officer returned the diamond to Marvel, who was absolutely sick of looking at the precious gem. Since he found it by Bright's lab he asked the scientist if he knew the owner. Skowl was following him and tried to shoot Bright and take the diamond, but was foiled by Marvel. The diamond turned to dust, and Bright revealed he was working on creating synthetic diamonds, but so far they were all molecularly unstable. Marvel took Skowl to jail and Marvel declared he never wanted to set eyes on a diamond ever again.

(Marvel Family (Fawcett) #53) - Professor Martin Mason was an atomic scientist greatly worried about the future of Earth. He was concerned with a future shortage of metals, and invented an expander ray that could enlarge inanimate matter to create more raw resources of metal. Before long he decided the greatest threat to the future of humanity was overpopulation, so he tinkered with his expander ray so it could enlarge the size of the Earth and every inanimate object tenfold and hopefully supply the needs of humanity until the end of time. His expander ray had unintended consequences, forcing the Marvel Family to go into action. Billy Batson finished his newscast when the ray hit, and Miss Baker, who provided music for his show fell from her now gigantic keyboard organ, and he had to change to his heroic identity of Captain Marvel to save her. Freddy Freeman shrunk while hawking newspaper, and had to change into Captain Marvel Jr. to save a driver when his car grew to large for him to control. Mary Batson saved her neighbor Mrs. Barstow from being crushed by her phone by turning into Mary Marvel. The Marvels met up, and stopped a jailbreak when the prisoners ran between the bars of their cell, and the Marvels locked the prisoners in the warden's desk for the time being. Mason's machine was too large for him to pull the lever that turned it off, so he sent out a radio broadcast asking for the Marvel Family's help. They used their superstrength to pull the lever, and Mason admitted he'd made a big mistake, and would reverse the ray to return Earth to its' normal size. He left the ray in reverse for too long, causing the Earth to rapidly shrink, and the Marvels had to evacuate Fawcett City before the residents crushed their newly tiny city by accident. Mason was again in a fix, because his underground lab where the ray was was now too small to reach. The Marvels carefully removed the roof of the underground cabin and flicked the lever again, restoring the world to normal. They destroyed the ray lest it cause more chaos, and took Mason to the authorities to see if the courts would choose to punish him for his grievous error. Captain Marvel chided Mason that he was wrong to tamper with the scheme of things.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #137) - Billy Batson showed up at work, thrilled with his job when Sterling Morris announced he was cutting his salary as well as the salaries of everyone at WHIZ so he could keep all the money for himself. Billy was bummed and stopped at Doc Quartz’ for a soda, but Doc said he hated his customers and kicked him out. The dejected Billy visited Dexter Knox, to find the boy genius sleeping instead of working on science experiments. King Kull, the Beastman, was lobbing sin bombs around Fawcett City, unleashing the Seven Deadly Sins in the hearts of mankind. Billy changed into Captain Marvel. Kull shoved him out of the way, fleeing back to his hideout underground in Evil Olympus. Marvel consulted Shazam, who told him the Seven Deadly sins were evil gods he’d long ago turned into stone and kept at the rock of Eternity. King Kull used a life-ray to bring them back to live, and the Sins were the ones producing the sin bombs. Kull started dropping sin bombs from a helicopter, and Billy was at WHIZ when he was hit. Full of hatred he almost attacked his boss before fighting off the effects of hatred and changing into Captain Marvel. Marvel confronted Kull in Evil Olympus, defeating him and using his life-ray to turn the Sins back into stone statues.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #139) - Wizzo the Wizard performed for children on a street corner, and when his audience failed to show interest in him pulling a rabbit from his top hat he summoned hundreds of rabbits to leap forth and overrun the streets. Captain Marvel demanded an explanation, and Wizzo was happy to see him, saying he'd pulled the rabbit stunt to attract Marvel's attention. Marvel struggled with the rabbits until he came up with the idea of placing the top hat on his own head, stopping the deluge of bunnies. Wizzo saw Captain Marvel's reflection in a storefront mirror, and used his magic wand to turn the reflection into Niatpac Levram, a magical duplicate of the hero under his thrall. He ordered Levram to cause havoc throughout Fawcett City, and when the real Captain Marvel responded after hearing news reports Levram fought him to a standstill. A punch from Levram knocked off Marvel's top hat, allowing Wizzo and Levram to fly off while Marvel rounded up more bunnies. Captain Marvel trailed the duo to a hidden cave that served as the School for Black Magicians, and transformed into Billy Batson to spy inside. For creating an evil Captain Marvel and causing chaos the master wizards promoted Wizzo from apprentice to master. They spotted Billy, and Levram gagged and tied him up before he could say SHAZAM1 and turn back into Marvel. Wizzo turned Billy into a hideous monster, but Billy's new form had jagged teeth, enabling him to bite through his gag and turn into Marvel. Marvel grabbed Wizzo's staff, allowing him to stop the flood of rabbits and compelling Niatpac Levram to return to the mirrorland from which he came. One punch flattened Wizzo and Marvel took him and the other black magicians to the police.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #148) - The planet Earth, sick of humans wrecking it in pursuit of fossil fuels, decided to fight back. Earth withdrew its’ cloud cover, causing droughts and heatwaves. Billy Batson reported on the catastrophe and changed into Captain Marvel to deal with it. Marvel found an ice asteroid and dumped it into Earth’s atmosphere, melting it and forming a new cloud cover. Earth was angry at being humiliated, and banged together South Pole ice caps, causing massive earthquakes. Marvel responded by going to a felt factory and creating massive plugs to constrain the ice caps. Earth broke South America away from its’ moorings, sending it on a crash course with North America, so Captain Marvel tunneled into Earth’s core and started a lava flow that glued South America back into place. Earth, tired of being foiled, was ready to unleash an apocalypse when a runaway comet threatened to destroy the planet. Captain Marvel hurled a chunk of plutonium at the comet, setting off a chain reaction that destroyed it. The Earth was grateful for the save, and decided maybe humans weren’t that bad after all, especially Captain Marvel.

(Shazam! I #1) - <1953> The mayor of Fawcett City threw a celebration at city hall to honor the Marvel Family, with a number of their friends and fans in attendance. The wicked Sivana Family chose that moment to strike from Sivana's spaceship, hitting the crowd with a vortex transporter paralyzer ray, drawing them into space, and encasing them in a globe of suspendium, a compound that would put them in suspended animation. Sivana, Junior slapped his dad on the back for a job well done, causing Sivana to lose control of his spaceship and crashing into the suspendium, trapping the villains with their victims. The globe orbited the sun for decades until the heat of the sun began to melt the suspendium, freeing the Marvel Family. They realized the suspendium was being pulled into the sun's orbit, and had to act fast to save the lives of everyone inside the globe. The Sivana Family revived and flew their spaceship to safety while the Marvel Family pushed the globe back to Earth before smashing it, freeing their friends and returning to Fawcett. Mary Marvel and Captain Marvel, Jr. went into space to search for the Sivanas, while Captain Marvel checked out one of Sivana's old mountain hideouts. He found the Sivana Family working on a death projector, which Sivana fired up, hoping it would destroy most of Earth's population, making him ruler of the world. Marvel smashed their machine and took the Sivanas to jail, but they all shared a laugh over how happy they were to be a live and out of suspended animation.

(Shazam! I #2) - Billy felt out of place in the new Fawcett City with hippies, new politics, and new slang, so he decided to visit Mr. Tawky Tawny, who got his old job back at the museum. Tawny was walking guests through an exhibit on Mr. Mind's Monster Society of Evil, and the tour ended with a glass case containing the stuffed Mr. Mind, who'd been sentenced to death in the electric chair. The museum began to shake, and Billy transformed into Captain Marvel, holding up the ceiling long enough for Tawny and the patrons to escape before the museum crumbled down. Tawny suspected sabotage, because the last museum inspections showed no safety issues. Marvel examined the wreckage and found that the stuffed "Mr. Mind" was a fake, and it's miniature glasses and voice amplifier were gone. Mr. Mind had faked his death decades ago, and returned to the museum with an army of insects and worms to undermine the museum's foundations and recover his accoutrements. Tawny told Marvel that Herkimer the Crocodile Man had taken a job in a travelling circus, and Marvel flew there to see if Herkimer had heard from his old boss. Herkimer instinctively tried to bite his old enemy, but immediately apologized. He said he was happy with his reformed life in the circus, but admitted Mr. Mind had contacted him, asking him to meet at the St. Louis Gateway Arch, but he'd turned Mind down. Mr. Mind planned to destroy the west coast, and had flown to the Gateway Arch in a paper cup attached to a balloon. He launched an atomic expanding missile through the arch, but Captain Marvel arrived in time to punt it into space. Mind parachuted to the ground, and burrowed into the Earth, but Marvel turned the Gateway Arch into a giant tuning fork by bending and releasing it. The underground vibrations it caused forced Mr. Mind to the surface, and Marvel took him into custody. Tawny told Billy he hadn't lost any of his old superhero skills, and Billy confided in him that he still felt out of touch, and hoped he could get his old job back at WHIZ.

(Shazam! I #2) - Billy witnessed crooks Lefty and Lanky exit a bank after they robbed it, but before he could say SHAZAM! they knocked him out with their money satchel. Billy soon recovered and transformed into Marvel, but they eluded him with a smokescreen shot out from their car's exhaust pipe. The crooks were in the clear, but spotted Sunny Sparkle, the nicest guy in the world. Sunny was a kid so nice people couldn't help but do nice things for him or give him stuff. The crooks gave him their loot, saying he could find a better use for it. By the time Captain Marvel arrived the crooks were gone, and he asked Sunny if he'd seen any criminals. Sunny thought the crooks were just more ordinary people being good to him, so he said no, and Captain Marvel offered to fly him home. Lefty and Lanky's boss was furious with them, so he packed heat and went to knock on Sunny's door, but when he saw Sunny's smiling face he was compelled to give him more money. When Sunny took a nap the criminal boss spotted Billy and asked him to retrieve the money from Sunny, saying Sunny wanted to give it to him for a charitable cause. Sunny's mother let Billy in and he retrieved the money, but when the boss drove away Billy recognized the smokescreen, changed into Captain Marvel, and apprehended the crooks. The mayor awarded Sunny a medal for helping Captain Marvel. Sunny was grateful he'd earned something even if he wasn't exactly sure how he'd helped.

(Shazam! I #3) - In an attempt to adjust to modern times Billy bought a new outfit and went to a teen hop dance and concert, but still felt incredibly out of place. He reasoned that he didn't fir in because he was actually 20 years older than the kids around him because of being in suspended animation, so he visited Shazam at the Rock of Eternity, asking him to make him into an adult. Shazam agreed, and had him grasp a magic hourglass to make the boy into a man, but warned that interfering with the timestream could have unintended side effects. Billy went to visit WHIZ when he saw Sterling Morris arguing with a wizard named Shagg Naste who was furious that the station refused to give him his own show. Freddy Freeman walked by and Nasty turned him to stone, threatening to do the same to Sterling if he didn't give in to his demands. Billy changed into Captain Marvel, who was now a boy the same age as Billy was before Shazam aged him. Nasty cast a spell on him that wrecked havoc with his ability to fly, and Marvel ended up crashing into the WHIZ building. He turned back into the adult Billy and confronted Nasty, whose magic had no effect on adults, and ran him off after forcing him to turn Freddy back to normal. Neither Sterling nor Freddie recognized him, and he went back to see Shazam to turn him back to his proper age.

(Shazam! I #3) - Billy met the famous inventor, Dr. Thomas Kilowatt, known as the Wizard of Phonograph Hill, and Kilowatt told Billy he had a big announcement, asking him if he could get him a timeslot on WHIZ TV. Billy brought Kilowatt to Sterling Morris, who was thrilled to have Kilowatt appear on his network. Kilowatt announced to a rapt audience that he had created the most wondrous invention since the wheel, but refused to say what it was lest it fall into evil hands. Billy walked Kilowatt home, but a number of foreign spies had been present for Kilowatt's presentation, and all of them wanted to learn more about his invention. Billy turned into Captain Marvel and fought off some Asian spies, but when he turned back to Billy he and Kilowatt were knocked out, bound and gagged by Middle Eastern spies. The spies were ambushed by Russian agents, but Billy and Kilowatt were soon abducted by British agents, and then French spies. The French spies removed their gags, allowing Billy to turn into Captain Marvel and free Kilowatt. A U.S. government agent appeared, telling Dr. Kilowatt it was his duty as a patriot to reveal his invention to the government, and he agreed. At Phonograph Hill Kilowatt demonstrated his anti-gravity machine, and after turning it on for only a moment his lab and all of Phonograph Hill floated off into the air. Captain Marvel used the strength of Hercules to return Phonograph Hill to the ground, and the U.S. agent said Kilowatt's invention was interesting but of no value to the U.S. government.

(Shazam! I #4) - Sterling Morris sent Billy out with his tape recorder for some man on the street interviews, and Billy made the gaffe during his first interview of asking about the St. Louis Browns baseball team, which he learned were renamed the Cardinals in 1954. A girl wandered onto a construction site, and Billy had to change into Captain Marvel to save her from some falling debris. He turned back into Billy and ran into Stanley Printwhistle, who was working as a street-sweeper. Stanley told Billy he'd been released from jail a decade ago, and had gone straight. Attila the Hun, Borgia, Caligula and Ivan the Terrible watched their former charge from limbo, and were disgusted that he'd reformed. They were determined to force him into becoming Ibac again to destroy Captain Marvel, so they sent their evil thoughts into Stanley's head, compelling him to speak the magic word. Ibac knocked out Billy, gagged and bound him, and placed him in a building on the construction site that was about to be demolished. Billy woke, and remembering his tape recorder had been recording the last time he changed into Captain Marvel, replayed his voice saying Shazam! and turned into Captain Marvel just in time. After a tremendous clash Captain Marvel defeated Ibac, and the evil spirits in Limbo decided to withdraw their power from their charge, turning Ibac back into Stanley. Stanley promised he'd never say the word Ibac again, and Captain Marvel trusted him.

(Shazam! I #4) - April 1st rolled around, and Billy Batson was depressed because he hadn't celebrated his birthday in decades, and after being gone from Fawcett so long he thought nobody remembered it was his birthday. He ran into Conway "Con" Mann, who threatened to sue Billy for whiplash, but decided against it when Billy told him he was broke. They shook hands, and Conway told Billy he saw a plane crashing from the sky in the reflection of a nearby storefront window. Billy changed into Captain Marvel, and flew into the sky, but saw no sight of a plane. He started to fly back when a plane flew by and fell into a tailspin, so he doubled back and made the save. Conway found that he had a vision of the future every time he touched Billy. Unbeknownst to both of them Conway Man was born at the same moment in the same hospital as Billy, and when Shazam gave Billy his powers a special link gave Conway some magic as well. Conway thought about going to the race track with Billy to clean up on some bets, but Billy said that sounded dishonest. They drove around in Mann's car when he got a vision of "Snake" Skinnis, an escaped convict, driving by them to head to a circus. There was a $10,000 reward, so Man pursed Skinnis. They chased him through a hall of mirrors, and afterwards Skinnis released one of the circus elephants to cause a panic, but Marvel subdued the beast. Skinnis finally gave up and the arresting officer gave Marvel the reward money. He changed back into Billy and he and Mann agreed to share the cash, but John Dingling, owner of the circus, showed up with a $10,000 bill for Captain Marvel for the damage he caused during the pursuit. Before they parted ways Mann said he saw a pleasant surprise for Billy in his near future. Billy returned home, where all his friends, including Freddy, Mary, and Tawky Tawny threw him a surprise birthday party.

(Shazam! I #5) - Hobo Slip Kelly was rummaging through a trash can when he spied a sleeping leprechaun floating through the air and caught him. The leprechaun had dozed off in Ireland, and was confused about ending up in America, but told Kelly he was obligated to grant him one wish since he'd caught him. Slip asked to become invisible, and after his wish was granted he ran into a bank and snatched a pile of money. Billy Batson was at the bank and turned into Captain Marvel, but using the wisdom of Solomon he decided he couldn't go into action unless he knew the money was being stolen, since there was no law against money levitating and flying off. Passersby saw the floating money and tried to grab it, so the invisible Slip fled, revealing his existence to Marvel after leaving footprints in wet cement. Slip avoided capture by tossing the money into the air, leaving Marvel with no clue as to where he was. Marvel saw the leprechaun, and after catching him the wee man told Marvel about turning Slip invisible, but said he couldn't take a wish back to fulfill Marvel's wish. Marvel wished the leprechaun would let Slip catch him again after Marvel convinced the hobo being invisible was a bad idea. Marvel located Slip, grabbed a hold of him, and walked him through a busy street. Slip was rattled by almost being hit by cars numerous times because they couldn't see him. Marvel flew up into the air, and dropped Slip, saying he couldn't rescue him if he couldn't see him. The leprechaun let Slip catch him, and Slip immediately wished to be invisible again. After Marvel rescued him from falling he took him right to jail.

(Shazam! I #5) - Sterling Morris sent Billy Batson out to go door to door to collect old newspapers and books for the new Station WHIZ recycling center, but everyone Billy visited thought he was looking for money and slammed their doors on him. Billy decided to ask Sunny Sparkle to tag along with him, since no one ever turned down a chance to do a favor for the world's nicest guy. Sunny was happy to help, and dragged his obnoxious cousin Rowdy along, who constantly complained. Billy's cart was soon full of recyclables, and Sunny noticed an old book called "The How-To-Do-Everything Handbook." The book was blank except for the index and page numbers, but once they identified something they wanted to do, in this case stopping the torrential downpour raining down on them, words started to appear. Billy and Sunny read the words aloud, and the rain stopped. Billy recognized that they definitely had a magic tome on their hands, but once they met Morris at the recycling center Rowdy decided to snag the book for himself, and he cast a spell to make himself the world's toughest guy. Sterling Morris was riding a forklift for fun, but it tipped over and Billy turned into Captain Marvel to save him. Rowdy reacted faster, grabbing the forklift with one hand and uprighting it. Rowdy then started mouthing off to Morris, and Marvel decided to put him in his place and take his powers away. He challenged Rowdy to tear up a phone book, and after the brat did so Marvel grabbed the magic handbook and ripped it up. Rowdy started hitting Marvel, but his superstrength was gone, and he knocked himself out giving Marvel a headbutt. Marvel handed the woozy Rowdy over to Sunny telling him to take his cousin home because he'd had more than enough of his presence.

(Shazam! I #6) - Sterling Morris congratulated Billy on a great noon newscast, and secretary Joan Jameson informed him that a fan of his show was waiting for him. A bearded watchmaker presented Billy with a personalized wristwatch. Billy went back to his office to admire his present, while the watchmaker left WHIZ and took off his disguise. The watchmaker was actually Sivana, who gloated that Billy and Captain Marvel never could see through his disguises. The wristwatch was made of suspendium, and programmed to respond to Billy saying Shazam! by freezing time for him for two minutes. Billy heard a report of the South Street Bridge collapsing, and when he tried to turn into Captain Marvel the suspendium watch went into effect,. Billy was unaware of the time lapse, but by the time he got to South Street the bridge was already down. Sivana was following him, and when time froze as Captain Marvel turned back to Billy he bragged that two minutes without Marvel's interference was all the time he needed to become the rightful ruler of the world, his stepping stone to becoming the ruler of the universe. Billy returned to WHIZ, and saw that according to the lobby clock his watch was two minutes slow, so he corrected the time. A maintenance worker later entered the lobby and fixed the clock, realizing it was two minutes fast. Sterling told Billy to turn on the TV, because Sivana had hijacked all television broadcast signals. Broadcasting from his hideout Sivana showed off his universal will-paralyzer, and said he'd set it off in two minutes. Since he had time before Captain Marvel to stop him, he decided to read off a list of everything he planned to do as ruler of the world. Billy said the magic word, and the suspendium watch, no longer set to the correct time, blew up. Captain Marvel found Sivana's hideout within seconds, and destroyed his universal will-paralyzer. Sivana cursed his luck, and after a light sock to Sivana's jaw Captain Marvel took the mad scientist to prison.

(Shazam! I #6) - Billy visited Dexter Knox while he was working into the night in his lab on a powerful electrical generator. Dexter wanted a midnight snack, and went with Billy to Grandmother Knox's nearby home. Grandmother Knox was a fastidious housekeeper, and went to Dexter's lab to dust his equipment, but when she touched the generator she was supercharged with electricity. Every appliance she touched in her home started running without being plugged in, so Billy changed into Captain Marvel and used the supercharged appliances to clean her house until they ran out of energy. By Dexter's calculations Grandmother Knox had enough of a charge to power an entire city, and started He wondered how her temporary power could best be pout to use when a television broadcast announced that Miami, Florida was suffering from a citywide blackout. Marvel offered to fly Grandmother Knox there to power the city, but she said she hated flying. Dexter tried to convince her that flying with Captain Marvel was safer than being on a plan, but she was having none of it, and insisted they travel to Miami by train. Captain Marvel arranged for the tracks from Fawcett to Miami rail lines be cleared, and after Grandmother and Dexter boarded the train Marvel pushed the train at superhuman speed. They arrived in Miami in no time, and Grandmother generated the electricity for Miami Light & Power until they fixed their generators. Grandmother's supercharge was gone, but the owner of the power company offered her and Dexter a vacation voucher for her service. Billy returned to Fawcett, and soon got a postcard from Dexter saying he was in the process of modernizing Miami's power grid.

(Shazam! I #7) - Mr. Tawky Tawny got depressed after he saw a woman walking down the street in a fur coat and realizing she was wearing his Uncle George. Tawny decided to watch Captain Marvel in action to cheer himself up, as the hero had told him he was set to bust some jewel smugglers at Pier 66. The smugglers were transporting some tigers in a cage for the millionaire Dana Dana, who had his own private zoo, and Tawny got into a conversation with them, learning some interesting things about the smuggling case. The smugglers saw Captain Marvel, and unloaded on him with machineguns, to no effect. They didn't have any jewels on them, so the police chief could only hold them for shooting at Marvel. Marvel discovered that they had a one million dollar check from Dana, and decided to check out his zoo. Tawny was doing his own investigation, and took off his clothes at the zoo so he'd fit in with the other wild animals. Dana saw a tiger roaming the grounds and lassoed Tawny, damaging his vocal cords, and locked him in a cage. As his tiger buddies had informed him, the smuggled gems were being kept in the floor of the animal cages they were importing to Dana. Billy Batson told Dana he wanted to do a story on him for WHIZ, and Dana obliged, showing him around. Billy thought he recognized Tawny in his cage, but Tawny was temporarily unable to speak. Billy hinted that he knew about Dana smuggling jewels, so Dana knocked him out, and bound and gagged him. He covered Billy in catnip oil, and let Tawny loose on him. Tawny's animal instincts started to overcome him, but he managed to bite off Billy's gag. Billy changed into Captain Marvel just in time, as Tawny bit his head, and then apologized profusely before telling Marvel where the jewels were hidden. Captain Marvel turned Dana in to the police, and then cheered up Tawky Tawny by going shopping with him for a new, updated wardrobe.

(Shazam! I #7) - New tenants moved into the house Billy Batson rented a room in, and Ma Potter told Billy they kept to themselves. The renter were Mr. Grump and his boss, who despised Captain Marvel because he'd broken up his gang. He considered Marvel such bad luck that he forbade Grump from speaking his name, and Grump balked his boss knocked him out. Ma Potter overheard the end of their conversation, and when the boss told her his friend had a fainting spell she became convinced that saying "Captain Marvel" really was a jinx. She told Pa Potter, who thought she was being superstitious. On his walk to the store he passed Freddy Freeman, who was listening to Billy's WHIZ broadcast about a crack in the Rockaway Dam, and Freddy said the magic words Captain Marvel to turn into Captain Marvel Jr. and save the dam. All Pa saw was the boy say "Captain Marvel," get struck by lightning and disappear, so he was now convinced Ma was right. He ran into Doc Quartz at the drugstore, and told him about what he saw. Doc started gossiping, and as the story kept getting retold and exaggerated people started believing that saying Captain Marvel's name would cause doomsday. Sterling Morris caught wind of the gossip and told Billy he could no longer say "Captain Marvel" on air. Even Billy was wary about saying his own name, suspicious that Sivana put a jinx on him. As Captain Marvel he visited Sivana in jail, and Sivana assured him he wasn't currently plotting against him. Even Sivana refused to say Marvel's name, telling Marvel that he wanted to rule the universe, not destroy it. Marvel returned home, and overheard the boss living next door fencing an expensive cane "capped in marvel"ous silverwork. The world didn't end, so Marvel realized the new superstition was baseless. He apprehended the boss, and scoffed at himself for having believed the rumor the boss inadvertently started. The boss was headed to jail, so he was still convinced the name "Captain Marvel" was a jinx.

(Shazam! I #9) - Mr. Mind visited the post office to look at wanted posters because he’d decided to recruit members for a new Monster Society of Evil. He visited a mad scientist who invented a hate-projector and decided he’d make a good enough substitute for Sivana. Captain Marvel had also been looking at the wanted posters and burst into the scientist’s lab, apprehending him. Mr. Mind hid in the hate-projector and found that it worked just fine, his hatred of Marvel projected a powerful wave that knocked out the scientist. Mind was irritated that Marvel was unphased, but reasoned that if one worm could knock out a man, a thousand could knock out Marvel. He brought the hate-projector to a hillside and summoned an army of worms to help him power the projector. Captain Marvel investigated, but the hate projector threw him for a loop. Mr. Mind mocked him, and Marvel used dry ice to seed some rainclouds and start a rainstorm. The worms fled their burrows and retrated, allowing Marvel to easily capture Mr. Mind. Captain Marvel asked Mr. Mind how he escaped the electric chair, and Mind claimed one of his segments broke off and regenerated his body. Captain Marvel knew he was lying because Mr. Mind’s “dead body” turned out to be a fake and Mr. Mind said he’d come up with a better story the next time he asked him.

(Shazam! I #9) - Sterling Morris approached Billy in a panic because the actor who played the Wizard on the Bonzo Show, a program featuring a rambunctious chimpanzee, had called in sick. Sterling wanted him to fill in, and Billy put on the wizard’s jeweled turbin, but Sterling thought he wasn’t putting his heart into the role. Sterling read some lines in a fearsome voice, causing Bonzo to panic and start tearing up the studio. Billy said Shazam, but the lightning bolt hit Bonzo, giving him the powers of Captain Marvel. Billy said the magic word two more times, only for the lightning bolt to give Sterling and Trixie, Bonzo’s co-star, Captain Marvel powers. Bonzo grabbed Billy’s turban, burst through the studio wall and flew off, and Sterling decided to catch him, but realized flying wasn’t for him because he was afraid of heights. Billy was finally able to transform into Captain Marvel, realizing the jewel on the turban was reflecting the magic lightning. He chased after Bonzo to no avail, so he went to a restaurant and Bonzo followed, even giving up his turban to the hat-check woman. Marvel put on the turban and said Shazam, turning Bonzo back into a normal chimp, before repeating the procedure with Sterling and Trixie.

(Shazam! I #10) - Billy and Cissie went on a date in the park, and Cissie pointed out a shooting star. The shooting star was actually a spaceship carrying Salad Men from Salata. Their craft had broken down, and they hoped to find replacement parts on Earth, but their appearance in the park sparked a panic. Billy went into action as Captain Marvel, and the Salad Men explained that they were no threat and asked him to fly them away from the angry crowd that was convinced they were space invaders. Marvel took them to Mr. Vinegar’s hardware store to get spare parts, but Vinegar panicked and whipped up a mob to go after the Salad Men. Marvel and the Salad Men ran away to another hardware store, with Marvel putting the Salad Men in a grocery bag so they’d be inconspicuous. The parts would cost over $200,000 and the Salad Man complained about Earth’s reputation for being too expensive. Capatin Marvel had a plan, directing a movie with his new friends called Invasion of the Salad Men! Featuring them defeating him and taking over Earth. The movie made enough money for the Salad Men to buy the parts they needed, and they thanked Captain Marvel for his help.

(Shazam! I #10) - Aunt Minerva mused that she’d still be pleased to make Captain Marvel her sixth husband, but since he kept busting up her rackets she’d be better off with him dead. Minerva told her two henchmen Osky the Ox and Pretty-Puss Pete that they were going to compete for a fabulous prize, and all they had to do was destroy Captain Marvel. Her henchmen didn’t relish going one-on-one with Marvel, so Minerva slapped Osky around and fired bullets over Pete’s head untile they complied. Osky kidnapped Billy, knowing his friend Captain Marvel would come looking for him. Billy changed into Marvel and let Osky wear himself out trying to use wrestling holds on him until he collapsed from exhaustion. Pete reasoned that since some of Marvel’s power came from Achilles he surely had an Achilles heel as a weakness, and tossed a grenade at his feet. Unfortunately for Pete Marvel got his courage from Achilles, but didn’t share his weakness. Marvel rounded up the henchmen and Minerva, bringing them to the police station. Minerva was disappointed in her boys, telling them they had a shot at winning her hand in marriage and they were both suddenly happy they failed and got arrested instead.

(Shazam! I #11) - Billy Batson and Cissie Sommerly went on a date at Doc Quartz’ drug store and after finishing off his colossal burgers Doc gave them his latest concoction, super-energized gelatin, as a free desert. Billy and cissie found that as much as they ate the gelatin kept replenishing itself, and started filling up the drug store. Doc Quartz realized he’d made a miscalculation when he made the gelatin, he energized it too much and it was growing like yeast. He implored them to help him eat it before the entire city was covered in gelatin. Billy changed into Captain Marvel to eat more, but even his mighty appetite was no match for the gelatin, so he gathered passer-bys and people in stores to chip in. Sterling Morris helped out, and said he couldn’t eat another bite, but praised the gelatin’s melt in your mouth texture. Marvel realized that the gelatin didn’t expand in their stomachs after being melted, and stoked every furnace in Fawcett City to cause a heat wave that melted the gelatin. Doc Quartz praised Marvel for averting a disaster, and asked him to try out his man-sized World’s Mightiest Hero Sandwich, but Marvel had enough of eating for the day.

(Shazam! I #11) - A crime-wave hit Fawcett City, and mailman Herschel Dockles started being afraid every time he walked the streets. To give himself confidence he created the costumed identity of Cape-Man to help the down-trodden. People seeing him patrol the streets thought he was nuts, but Captain Marvel introduced himself to Cape-Man and said it was good to have another crimefighter on the streets,. They met again when Cape-Man patrolled the subway Billy Batson rode home after buying presents for his boss Sterling Morris’ Christmas party. Crooks Frankie and Louie got nervous seeing Cape-Man on the subway, worried he might be after them, and made a rapid exit, dropping a number of diamonds they’d stolen. Captain Marvel and Cape-Man pursued them and the crooks tried to run Cape-Man over in their car. He scooted up a telephone pole, but started screaming his head off because he remembered he was afraid of heights. Captain Marvel rescued him, but the panicked Cape-Man squirmed, causing Captain Marvel to accidentally drop him. Cape-Man landed on the crooks, knocking them out. Captain Marvel congratulated him, and asked if he wanted to team up again. Cape-Man said he only played at being a superhero so he wouldn’t be scared anymore, but after easily capturing two crooks he had his confidence back, and said he was retiring as a superhero.

(Shazam! I #11) - Billy Batson, Mary and Freddy attended Sterling Morris’ Christmas Eve party along with all of their friends. The Sivana Family groused in their lab about how much they hated Christmas, and Sivana activated his Cosmic Clock, speeding up time so Christmas day would only last 10 minutes. The Marvel Family went into action when they noticed time was speeding up around them, and they saved Santa Claus, who was having trouble controlling his sped up reindeer. Santa told them the Sivana Family were trying to ruin Christmas, so the Marvels flew to the Sivanas’ lab and made short work of them. Combining their strength the Marvels stopped the Cosmic clock and pushed its’ hands backwards so Christmas day could proceed at a normal rate. The Marvels visited the Sivanas in jail, and said they found an appropriate Christmas present, the first the Sivanas had ever gotten, for the family that proclaimed themselves the rightful rulers of the universe. The present turned out to be a book entitled The Universe, and the Marvels returned to Morris’ party to celebrate the holiday with their friends.

(Shazam! I #12) - Billy checked in with WHIZ secretary Joan Jameson, who told him he had no callers, but when he went to his office Billy was met by Jarl 499-642-831, a time traveler investigating the one day the history books said Captain Marvel did nothing at all. When they left the office Joan had no idea where Jarl came from, but came to expect the unexpected when you worked with Captain Marvel’s alter ego. Billy interviewed Dr. Thomas Kilowatt, an inventor who created a Midas Effect machine that turned lead into gold. The machine started a chain reaction, with the gold it created turning everything it touched into gold. Billy changed into Captain Marvel and held the machine and the lab, now gold, above his head so its’ effects could be halted. The only reason Marvel wasn’t turned to gold was because he was invulnerable, and Kilowatt warned him the Midas Effect gold would soon turn the atmosphere into gold and spread out across Earth. Captain Marvel compressed the gold into a small pellet and took Kilowatt’s gold fillings, stretching them out and containing the Midas Effect gold. Kilowatt swore him to secrecy before hiding the gold so no one could seek to replicate his scientific experiment. Jarl had his answer as to why the historical records were silent that day.

(Shazam! I #12) - Billy Batson waited outside the WHIZ television studio broadcasting Master of the Martial Arts, starring Billy’s favorite TV star Jeremy Senshoo in hopes of getting an autograph. When Senshoo emerged he was mobbed by admiring kids and only had time to sign one autograph. Billy changed into captain Marvel, trading his autograph to the lucky kid for his Senshoo autograph. Marvel spotted Senshoo using his martial arts to rob a jewelry store, but his wisdom of Solomon told him that any hero of his would only commit a crime if he was under the control of someone else. Marvel took a dive in a fight with Senshoo and followed him back to his home, where his personal chef Pierre fed him delicious meals containing a hypnotic spice. Pierre was getting rich at Senshoo’s expense and ordered him to rob the mint. Captain Marvel made his presence known and the terrified Chef Pierre agreed to confess to hypnotizing Jeremy and forcing him into a life of crime.

(DC Comics Presents #33, 34) - Captain Marvel found himself wearing Superman’s costume and in possession of all his powers. Superman, who now had Captain Marvel’s costume and powers, visited Earth-S to find out what had happened, but Marvel was clueless. The mystery was solved when Mr. Mxyzptlk, Superman’s impish foe from the 5^th Dimension, appeared and revealed his role in the bedevilment. He’d created the situation to lure Superman to Earth-S, where his magical powers were much stronger and he could enjoy toying with Superman even more. Mxyzptlk disappeared, and the heroes went back to Captain Marvel’s home to discuss the matter further. The heroes powers were switched back to normal, and they wondered if Mxyztplk lied when he said he’d confined Superman to Earth-S. They traveled to the Rock of Eternity, but were confronted by Mxyztplk, his silent partner Mr. Mind, and their henchman King Kull. Kull and Mind wanted the heroes dead, and Mxyztplk told them that wasn’t his agreement with them. He sent the heroes to Earth-S’s funny animal dimension to protect them, but Mr. Mind followed and attacked them in Robbitt, a giant robotic rabbit. Mxyztplk knew Mind would go too far, so he said his name backwards, returning to his own dimension and undoing the magic spells that had troubled Marvel and Superman. The heroes defeated Mr. Mind, and funny animal Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, and the rest of the Marvel Family aided them in bringing down King Kull. Superman and Marvel knew they’d started a beautiful friendship.

Comments: Created by Bill Parker & C.C. Beck

Captain Marvel received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #4. He received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #14 under the Marvel Family entry.

Captain Marvel was originally published by Fawcett Comics, which DC obtained the rights to in 1972.

Captain Marvel's appearance in America’s Greatest Comics (Fawcett) #2, Master Comics (Fawcett) #21 was reprinted in Shazam! Archives #4. Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #4, 5 was reprinted in Shazam! Archives #4, Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #18, 71, 79, 80, 82 was reprinted in Shazam! I #8, Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #38, 39, 137, 148 was reprinted in Shazam!: A Celebration of 75 Years, Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #55 was reprinted in Shazam! I #1, Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #59 was reprinted in Shazam! I #12, Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #97 was reprinted in Shazam! I #4, Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #139 was reprinted in Shazam! I #2. His appearance in Marvel Family (Fawcett) #1 was reprinted in Shazam! I #8, Marvel Family (Fawcett) #4 was reprinted in Shazam! I #3, Marvel Family (Fawcett) #10 was reprinted in Shazam! I #12. Whiz Comics (Fawcett) #21 was reprinted in Shazam! Archives #3, Whiz Comics (Fawcett) #25 was reprinted in Shazam! Archives #4.

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