History of the Shazam Family 

Yeah, it was too jarring for me. Having only read certain things for years after growing up reading everything I could, I dropped most superhero comics after the early 2000s and the new 52 cemented my decision of not going back. I didn't even bother with the relaunch. JLA levels of good books being worth it are gone. And the new social crap has killed it. I haven't bought any book since dark horses conan. Sword and sorcery got ruined going back to marvel. So it was fun while it lasted but the industry has been dead to me for a while.

More interestingly, Elvis's 1970s look was inspired by Captain MArvel Jr.

With capes

It's pretty much Mahou Sentai Magiranger

​@@1eyeddevil929 Or as everybody else knows them: Power Rangers Mystic Force.

There actually is a Power Ranger named "Captain Marvelous."

@@CaptainMarvelCulture Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger... ugh

I'd actually love that.... please Aris and everyone at Variant Comics

Too bad the BatFamily would be number 1 by default cause Batman

Jesus Christ died for your sins on the cross. Repent and believe in him or you will be separated from God The Father for all eternity and face hell forever, never ending.

GREAT idea!

that sounds great!

That's selling him a little short. Superman and Shazam were like Godzilla and Gamera. What Captain Marvel was doing differently was obviously working and they started copying off each other. Supergirl was a response to Mary Marvel and Superman started flying to keep up with Shazam. And yes, I love how that new Elvis movie is a spiritual adaptation of old Captain Marvel comics.

Surely the most underrated one might be ForgetMeNot

​​@@zachariahjonahmaldonado5897 Shazam was not a rip-off, but you can't deny he was created just to imitiate Superman's popularity. He was lucky enough to be considerably more popular than the other imitations, which allowed him to even influence Superman, forming a relationship between them similar to the one The Simpsons and Family Guy have

Jesus Christ died for your sins on the cross. Repent and believe in him or you will be separated from God The Father for all eternity and face hell forever, never ending.

Waid isn't going to use the name Captain Marvel, just "the Captain."

@@CynthiaJFinnegan I know. There’s but restoring Captain Marvel isn’t just changing the name back. People don’t realize just how drastically Johns changed everything about the r character’s core mythos and characterization. The current versions about as true to the character as an Elseworlds comic.

I hope they don’t get rid of the Shazam Family, because it was something that I enjoyed and characters like Darla Dent were one of my favorites that was added in the Shazam lore. Especially how much they are portrayed in Fury of the Gods.

@@xanderg.1070 I don’t think you mean Darla Dent 😂. That’s a different character, Jokers Daughter. But I know what you mean. I think if Waid can make them all distinct and serve a roll then they can stick around. They just feel really redundant to Mary and Freddy right now. But Rebirth was able to integrate Wallace West into the Flash family and make him distinct. So maybe the same can be done for the new kids.

@@JTCH22 My bad, I knew her name was Darla but I didn’t know her last name, but in seriousness, I do think, if done, correctly they can integrate the new characters like Darla into the classic Shazam/Captain Marvel mythos. Cuz DC really did a great job with integrating Wallace West into the classic Flash Family mythos while adding some new elements in their history to the point that you sometimes forget that he was supposed to be a rebooted black version of Wally West. Hell, Wallace has a much better relationship with Wally than Barry, and thanks to rebirth he is his own character I like said, I enjoy Fury of the Gods, and one thing I love was how the new Shazam Family is important to Billy and how greatly they support each other like an actual family, especially since they are a foster family which isn’t represented too much surprisingly. And I think it would be wasting a lot of good characters that have some potential to be pushed into limbo and then obscurity.

It s the specific stories by Fawcett that were published more than 75 years ago that are in public domain. So you can reprint the stories, but you can't use the characters the way DC uses them.

It’s reprinted in the Shazam: World’s Mightiest Mortal TPB in the third volume.

@@joshuaingobo1559 thanks for the info I'll have to pick up a copy. That was one of my favorite story arches for Shazam

@@Cavillier1970 You’re welcome.

In the Flashpoint comics and later movie they do and only can become Shazam when they're all together I fact that reverse flash exploits by killing Hugo and thus him

You never seen the first Shazam movie?

It would be awesome if that talking Tiger appeared in the DCEU or DCU

With the Strength of Hercules, Billy Batson’s strength level is absolutely limitless in his empowered form back in the day.