What would our dear Capt. Marvel look like in JL?

[MWilburyJr]

Well, here's my take. (Actually, more my prediction of how he would appear. . . I tried to make him fit in as closely as possible to the new style) I was in a hurry and borrowed a background from an image search, so I cannot take credit for that, but the entire figure and his shadow was done in micron pen and colored in photoshop. I plan to put him into a bigger scene with his counterparts.
I've got plenty of nitpicks (how could it have met my expectations?) but I remain thoroughly excited and hopeful that the kinks will get ironed out soon. After all, I never thought I'd see the day.

I'd love to see Capt. Marvel guest star in JL though not necessarily a regular.

http://home.earthlink.net/~macchiefs/shazambkgrnd.jpg


http://home.earthlink.net/~macchiefs/shazambkgrnd.jpg

[Dark Knight]

Thats pretty cool. I hope he does show up on JL cuz I barely know anything about him other than that he says "SHAZAM!" and transforms.

[Cassandra]

It would be a kid-friendly move to put the big red cheese in the JLA- since his alter ego is like, eleven.
"Holy Moley!"

[Mattashell]

Your picture looks great. How did Captain Marvel end up trancending publishers (and becoming the competitor's namesake)? Thereafter I think the DC version was only called Shazaam!

I used to have a bunch of Marvel trading cards. Some cards were famous covers. The first apearance of Captain Marvel was actually a DC cover with Superman standing with him. How is this?

BTW I'd love to see a JL show with OMAC.

Mattashell

[Zoddman]

Originally posted by Mattashell
Your picture looks great. How did Captain Marvel end up trancending publishers (and becoming the competitor's namesake)? Thereafter I think the DC version was only called Shazaam!

I used to have a bunch of Marvel trading cards. Some cards were famous covers. The first apearance of Captain Marvel was actually a DC cover with Superman standing with him. How is this?Mattashell It's a long and complicated story, but I'll try to narrow it down as best as I can:

The original Captain Marvel that is now published by DC was originally published by Whizz comics. Whizz's Captain Marvel was the top-selling comic-book in the late 40's, so DC brought a decade long lawsuit to Whizz, saying that Captain Marvel was a copyright infringement on Superman. They did have similar powers and appearances. Nonetheless, Whizz won the first legal battle, DC won the second. Whizz comics finally decided that it wasn't worth their time to continue the legal feud, and stopped printing the Cap.

Flash forward to the mid sixties at the offices at Marvel. Editor stan Lee calls up the copyright houses to ask if the name Cpt. Marvel was up for grab. It was, and the Marvel version(Not Whizz) is still printed by Marvel to this day. In the 70's, DC had aquired all of Whizz's characters after they went out of business (Because of the comic crunch in the fifties.) And decided they wanted to print new adventures of Captain Marvel. But there was one catch, the Cpt. Marvel title was now used by Marvel. So they came up with the Power of Shazam! title. That's about it.

[MWilburyJr]

>BTW I'd love to see a JL show with OMAC.


OMAC? As in the big stone face from Legends of the Hidden Temple on nickelodeon?

Really, though, who is the OMAC to whom you refer?

[Karkull]

That's a great picture of Captain Marvel, MWilburyJr. Howver, I think that his face would be a little more rectangular and fuller (like Superman's did on STAS).

[GL2k2]

That's cool, but he's kinda skinny. I just think he would be bigger.

[BruceTimmSr]

Skinny? Methinks not. He's not quite Superman, but he's bigger than Flash or MM. Keep it up.

[Mattashell]

Originally posted by MWilburyJr
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Really, though, who is the OMAC to whom you refer?

OMAC (One Man Army Corps) was created by Jack Kirby (known for Black Panther) in the 1970's. It took place in a brightly colored 1984/Brave New World future with a toung in cheek twist. In this world people can buy a kit and put together a "friend", unhappy factory workers are sent to a room to kick maniquins in the butt and burn cars until they feel better, and the "super rich" can rent a city for the weekend. A diminutive and depressed man, named Buddy Blank, is chosen by an anonymous group who are apointed to maintain the world's peace, to be the subject of an experiment. A sentient satelite, Brother Eye, transforms Buddy into OMAC, a near invinsible powerhouse with hair shaped like a Greek war helmet, and a psychic link to Brother Eye. Now he wrecks anyone who would desrupt the world peace because the "good guys" are forbidden both armys and weapons. It ran for eight issues. In the early nineties John Byrne (known for Next Men) brought a much darker OMAC back for a four issue B&W adult oriented mini series, in which he and Brother Eye travel back in time to the great depression.

Mattashell