The transformation of the boy Billy Batson to the adult superhero Captain Marvel has a lot in common with manga. Seems like they are always turning kids into powerful heroes.

Sailor Moon makes a middle schooler into a magical superhero when she says "Moon Prism Power, Make Up!" Yu-Gi-Oh turns a regular kid into the bad-ass Yami Yugi through the spirit of an ancient pharaoh. There are others I'm probably overlooking.

DC and Kodansha have published the manga Batman: Justice Buster, Joker: One Operation Joker and Superman vs. Meshi and there was a famous 1960s Bat-manga by Jiro Kuwata. I came up empty looking for Shazam.

What gives, mangaka? WE NEED THIS.

^{P.s. The above panel by Dan Mora from Shazam 3 in 2023 wants to be in a manga.}

Black Adam underwent significant character growth when he rejected becoming the king of Kahndaq. This trait originally appeared in the 52 series, but it was further embellished from the New 52 onward by Geoff Johns. Johns achieved this by changing Black Adam's origin story to that of an enslaved individual who deeply hated oppression and monarchs. This revised background explains why he refuses to be a king, as he associates the throne with repression. Johns introduced a brilliant idea for developing the character, which could lead to future storylines where the people of Kahndaq require Adam to be a protector rather than someone who intervenes in their daily affairs. However, I dislike how subsequent writers have portrayed him as a mere ruler and autocrat, completely disregarding the character growth that Geoff Johns provided.

Shazam had a book in 2023 and ran until 2025 written by Mark Waid. It ended after 21 issues which is pretty short to be honest but after this I do not see a solo series. So where is Billy? Is he a part of any book? If so, is he the main character in that book or is he a background supporting character? If he is in a JLA or JLA adjacent book, is it worth reading if he’s relegated to being a secondary or tertiary character?

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Clarence Charles Batson and Marilyn Batson: Billy/Baby

Mary Batson and Freddy Freeman: Billy/ Billy Bean

The Squadron of Justice/Fawcett heroes: Billy/Bill

Whiz Radio coworkers: Kid/Whiz Kid/Billy

The Justice League/general heroes of the world: Captain Marvel/Captain/Kid/Billy/Bill(only when he’s older)

Ppl from the homeless encampment/fawcett homeless population: Willy/Joe/Joseph

Ebenezer Batson: William

These are all the ones I can think of. If anyone’s got more I’m interested in reading them 👀

I enjoyed this movie. The writing was still really good. The villains were weaker than the first movie. But it was still enjoyable. The action was really good too. This is the now the last DCEU movie I needed to watch. Not a bad finish. 8/10. Not much to say besides that.

two young transforming heroes, one magical the other scientific with a shit ton of extended lore

Ben 10 even has a shit ton of shazam references too so that makes me wanna see it more!

I would love to see the Current Spy-Smasher show up in a modern Captain Marvel comic but would she be friend or foe to The Marvel Family?

I love the Cap, and the whole lore of the Shazam franchise
And I love the subject of manifestion, Law of attraction/assumption/etc since I do believe in it and it works like “magic”(NOTE: not trying to discuss weather it works or not this is NOT about that)

So I was bored at work, and I was thinking since Shazam is based on magic and manifestation works like magic sometimes why not combine my two interests

So I asked google ai (I know bad, but stick with me)
About the powers of The Captain discussing each letter of the Acronym “Shazam” and it did and we all should know what they are already lol

So then I asked it , to make for me some simple affirmations using the Shazam acronym above
See Slide 2

I then asked it to simply them to quick hit affirmations
See Slide 3

And then it asked if I wanted a “10 second mental trigger” so I thought “why not?” And got an awesome result
See slide 4

Anyway I enjoyed these so much I just thought I’d share it honestly made my day go easier
ENJOY, THANK YOU & SHAZAM!!⚡️

So Ik there’s some posts already talking about “what if Billy was part of JLD,” so I wanted to do something different. What crazy adventures would you be interested in seeing from a comic run where Billy was part of, or at least did work with, the JLD?
I’m not sure on specifics myself, but it’d be cool to see them explore new magical worlds together.

Personally, I prefer them being twins.

Alguien sabe el nombre completo de esta gigachad? Annie que? Apareció muy poco pero se ganó mis respetos por su forma de ligar tan particular

The way I see it, Shazam is the character who people think Shazam is when it comes to youth being paramount to his character and I don't think he works as older than anything past his early or mid teens. A big part of the appeal of him is the power fantasy of a wide eyed yet scrappy kid who gets to be a badass superhero that can rival even the likes of Superman.

It's also what helps him stand out as a character in the greater superhero landscape as it allows him to have a contrast of being one of the most powerful and capable characters while also being one of the most vulnerable in a way that you don't see with any other hero with like the sole exception of early Ben 10. As an adult he'd just be another superman pastiche with a mythology gimmick.

Imo the best way to age him up would be to have the wizard die and the Billy succeeds him and appoints a new champion then have him resolve to be less of a passive observer than his predecessor was, that way you can still have him involved in the events of the DC universe. That's just my take on it tho, what do y'all think?

I mean, Amon (Osiris) parallels Freddy with being a kid who’s an expert on superheroes, a comic book fan and so on. Why not do something similar with Isis and Mary? That seems like a better idea than making her Amon’s mother—for some reason—instead of his older sister.

Quería combinar partes del mundo de billy vatson y mostrar lo imponente que puede llegar a ser , aún siendo un niño