8/11/2023 0 Comments Captin marvel shazzamPart of Captain Marvel’s name was derived from Fawcett’s founder, Wilford H. It was decided a single hero would be better by Executive Director Ralph Daigh and this new character was named Captain Thunder that would headline their new title Flash Comics only for the series name to be scooped by All-American Publications before it could reach publication and the character would be renamed Captain Marvel to prevent any legal issues with Fiction House’s Captain Terry Thunder (though an ashcan of Flash Comics featuring Captain Thunder was released before the issues arose Fawcett also put out the similar ashcan Thrill Comics but it butted heads with Standard’s Thrilling Comics). Marvel was a reworked concept by Parker, a supervising editor at Fawcett, of an idea he had for a team of six heroes each with powers patterned after mythological characters. Basing the characters likenesses on film actors, Ibis was modeled after Tyrone Power, Smasher after Errol Flynn, and Marvel after Fred MacMurray. In the pages of Whiz Comics #2 (1940), some of Fawcett’s biggest franchises were created in Bill Parker and Bob Kingett’s Ibis the Invincible, Parker and Greg Duncan’s Golden Arrow (predating Green Arrow), and Parker and C.C. Home to such talents as Otto Binder and Charles Clarence “C.C.” Beck, the latter would co-create the juggernaut that toppled the Man of Steel. Arguably, the publisher that seemingly came out of nowhere to dominate the industry was Fawcett Comics. Timely, Quality, Standard, Fox, and MLJ were just a few publishers to emerge in what we today call the Golden Age of American Comic Books. Comic books went from some progeny of the comic strip and pulp magazine into its own entity and various companies emerged from the phenomenon. When Superman was created, it changed everything. Flash Comics Shazam! The Evolution of Captain Marvel by Jerry Whitworth
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