Best Shots Extra: BILLY BATSON AND THE MAGIC OF SHAZAM
By Lan Pitts
I’m going to be honest with you. Growing up, I was never a huge Captain Marvel fan. I guess it was because the confusion over who he really was. Was he Shazam! or Captain Marvel? Of course later in life I learned the legal issues with the name Captain Marvel and why they had to call Jackson Bostwick’s show “Shazam!”. Regardless of the naming debacle, he was just another Superman archetype. In addition to that, I was never a huge Superman fan. Batman though, wow, that’s where most of my parent’s money went, but I digress. My philosophy on the character changed when I met a guy by the name of George Marston. George and I quickly became the best of friends and he saw the character differently. Not as a magical version of Superman, but as a story that has to be any kid’s biggest dream: becoming a superhero. He told me some back stories and explained the characters that went along with the Shazam! mythos. Now Dr. Sivana may not be a household name like Lex Luthor or the Joker, but he still had some amazing stories and battles with the Big Red Cheese.
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source: DCcomics.com
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