Nerd Tutorial Podcast

Topic: Shazam (2019) We talked about Captain Marvel a few weeks back: how the name Captain Marvel existed originally as a DC owned character, then found it's way in to the hands of Marvel after DC sued Fawcett Comics over the character rights/originality.  The character came back to the DC fold once purchased, and become Shazam, since Marvel owned the License to the name a that point.  Well a super hero movie happened, and we went to watch it.       Tutorial:   History Shazam originally known as Captain Marvel. More popular than Superman. DC Sued Faucett Comics over rights for the character Eventually bought by DC and re-christened as Shazam.   Billy Batson(10), orphan Meets a wizard after escaping bullies on a subway. Wizard gives him the powers of Shazam = Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury   Marvel Family Captain Marvel Jr. Mary Marvel Marvel Triplets: Fat Marvel, Tall Marvel, Hillbilly Marvel Doctor Sivana – similar to Lex Luger, stereo typical Super Science bad guy.    Review: Rock Orig