Captain Marvel Adventures Issue #1

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What was the best selling comic book during the 1940s? Superman? Batman? Try Captain Marvel Adventures. Captain Marvel first appeared in Whiz Comics #2 back in 1940. That issue sold over 500,000 copies. Whiz Comics stories were very similar to Action Comics in that they both contained action-filled stories. Since Captain Marvel was a huge success, just like Superman and Batman, he was also given his own solo title. Captain Marvel is one of the classic Golden Age characters who was basically given the shaft. You would think that since Captain Marvel was so popular during the 1940s that he would be a top superhero today. The weird thing about Captain Marvel is that he was sued out of existence by DC Comics. Yeah, DC Comics gave Cap Marvel an early grave. DC claimed that Captain Marvel was a rip off of Superman. DC Comics' lawsuit against Fawcett Comics lasted for over a decade and by 1953, Fawcett finally gave up. Fawcett paid DC Comics a tremendous sum of money for damages, folded up the company, and agreed to never publish a Captain Marvel comic again. Today, Captain Marvel and other Fawcett superheroes like Bulletman and Blue Beetle are owned by DC Comics. So DC Comics pretty much destroyed those characters that they now own. They are forgotten heroes. The funny thing about DC Comics' Captain Marvel today is that DC cannot publish a comic titled Captain Marvel or Marvel anything. Marvel Comics snatched up the rights to the name Marvel decades ago. So that's why DC Comics' Captain Marvel of today is called Shazam. That's what the character Billy Batson shouts out to transform into Captain Marvel. The idea that Captain Marvel was anything like Superman is purely ridiculous. A lawsuit like that would have been shot down in a heartbeat today. DC Comics was getting smacked around by Fawcett Comics in sales and they just wanted to find some way to eliminate their competition. DC Comics was successful at doing that until a little company renamed Marvel Comics (formerly Timely Comics) grew up to become the powerhouse that DC Comics always dreaded. Here's a toast to a great fallen superhero who could have been a giant today. Enjoy the first exciting issue of Captain Marvel! Bauer out.

Captain Marvel Adventures Issue #1