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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

‘Shazam!’ Had a Stealthy ‘Captain Marvel’ Reference. Given the long and complicated history shared by Captain Marvel and the hero now known as Shazam, […] By Russ Burlingame. April 10, ...

“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.

As for the other Captain Marvel, DC Comics used The New 52 relaunch in 2011 to officially rename Billy Batson's superhero alter go as Shazam, so Captain Marvel no longer exists in the DC Comics ...

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 ...