A Pictorial history of the Big Red Cheese and a Review of SHAZAM!
The Powers of Shazam, as demonstrated in the 1972 DC reboot of the comic book. "In time of dire need, young Billy has been granted the power by the Immortals to summon awesome forces at the utterance of a single word" What kid didn't dream of being able to do just that; shred his mortal coil and turn into a being who was faster, stronger and, ideally, had the ability to fly. ''Wouldn't my friends be impressed? Nobody could mess with me!'' Very early on in the long tradition of Superhero comics, there was a conscious decision to pander to the core audience of kids, and before we got the very fist instance of a juvenile superhero sidekick in April 1940, when Robin made his first appearance next to Batman in Detective Comics #38, Billy Batson beat him to the punch by changing into CAPTAIN MARVEL just a few months earlier. Now I don't intend to make here a complete history of Captain Marvel. Many others have done it be...