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 ...

DC Comics’ Shazam arrives just a month after Marvel’s billion-dollar blockbuster Captain Marvel. The two characters are forever entangled, and have wild connections to Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore ...

The tale of two Captain Marvels is certain to cause confusion for the casual fans of the comic crusader.

On the brink of new legal disputes over comic book character copyrights, we revisit one of the biggest - the fight over Captain Marvel ...

There are actually two Captain Marvels on screen this year and it's all down to the comics history of the character.

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.

Originally known as Captain Marvel, the magical champion Shazam is a DC Comics superhero who gains his powers from various mythological figures: Solomon's wisdom, Hercules' strength, Atlas ...

In the Captain Marvel/Shazam comic books, lightning is used as part of the transformation process. But what else can it do?

Don't call him Shazam. Or Captain Marvel. Billy Batson's superhero form will now be known in the new Dawn Of DC series as The Captain.