Digital Comic Museum
General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: sandmountainslim on June 01, 2012, 04:18:39 PM
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Loving the Captain Marvel Adventures and Whiz Comics issues on the site and I think it's a shame the character of Billy Batson/Marvel is now owned by DC which not only is the company which killed the character in the 50's but they also have NO idea how the character should be written.
It would be nice if DC would sell the character to Marvel Comics which owns the Captain Marvel title and name or to a third party which would stand a better chance of actually doing something with the character.
Also read that Marvel Comics bought the rights to Marvelman/Miracleman and would it not make more sense for them to make THAT character their Captain Marvel rather than introducing a new female cap which they apparently plan to do?
Any replies appreciated.
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I've always wondered if Archie Comics might not have been the best fit for the old Fawcett universe characters? DC certainly hasn't done much for him since they got him.
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You may have a point there.
I actually HATED Captain Marvel since all I had read were the DC stories but now I see what they ruined.
No wonder they feared Captain Marvel and launched their big lawsuit in the forties.......this is good stuff.
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If you want to see Captain Marvel go very wrong (even wronger than at DC), check out the earliest AC books. Bill Black created "Captain Paragon," a mysterious hero not seen since the mid-1950s who returns. It's not only clear that it's supposed to be Marvel in the general sense, but there's also a pile of references to Eternity, wizards, and so forth, and there's a handful of spots where the letterer goofed, and he's referred to as Captain Marvel.
Basically, as I recall, he shows up, falls in with some hippies, drops acid, accidentally kills his ghoulish arch-enemy (who doesn't seem to be a reference to anything from Fawcett), and while flying off in grief, gets captured by aliens who use his power to create a superhero of their own. Yeesh!
Since then, to make the character less of a shoddy copy, he was (as far as I can tell) recast as an Old West crime-fighting cowboy who was captured by a secret society and transformed into an immortal superhero.