Comments on: Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #12!

By: stevemckill

stevemckill — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:20:50 +0000

Some of those issues during the those 19 years actually featured fish! DC must have decided a fish story would look better with an archer than a man who can talk to fish.
Yes, poor Aquaman indeed.

By: Captain Zorikh

Captain Zorikh — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:07:34 +0000

Where did you get the info that Marvel Comics created their Captain Marvel because of “rumblings” that DC was looking to bring back the original? According to Stan Lee in Les Daniels’ history of Marvel Comics and Roy Thomas in the introduction the the Marvel Masterworks edition of early Captain Marvel stories, it was a reaction to the MF Enterprises Captain Marvel. Carmine Infantino tells me that the idea to bring back Captain Marvel was his alone, and it happened in 1972. Have I missed something?

By: Captain Zorikh

Captain Zorikh — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:23:40 +0000

I’m not so sure DC would be so fast to use the Captain Marvel name if Marvel Comics aever gave up the trademark. I’;m sure they would grapb it if it was available, but since “Shazam” has been the trademark for the Big Red Cheese for longer than Fawcett’s original run of the character, and the whole “Trial of Shazam” thing is re-defining the characters of Billy Batson and Freddy Freeman, they may be happy to just let it go. Besides, to the man-on-the-street who does not read comics much, if you say “Captain Marvel,” they are likely to use word association to think Marvel Comics automatically.

What I find somewhat dissappointing is that Marvel and DC have not come together on a Captain Marvel/Shazam crossover story. The closest we had was one panel in the JLA/Avengers crossover and the Amalgam Captain Marvel (who was in maybe a dozen panels in two team books).

By: Paul Cairns

Paul Cairns — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:37:02 +0000

That’s a pretty funny scenario in regards to Captain Marvel and Marvel being more or less forced to release a book every so often.

By the way, what was Ms. Marvel called again in HOM?

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:56:59 +0000

It is not a set deal, but yeah, that sounds about right, which is probably why Marvel is coming out with a new Captain Marvel series this year!

By: Kevin Huxford

Kevin Huxford — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:44:57 +0000

So…how often does a Captain Marvel book have to be published to maintain the copyright? Once ever 4-5 years?

By: The Mad Monkey

The Mad Monkey — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:31:47 +0000

Don’t you think it’s a bit of slap to Aquaman’s face that Green Arrow and Speedy got a More Fun cover of them fighting underwater?
It’s almost enough to make you want to have a school of piranha chew off your hand…
…oh…wait…

By: Smiley

Smiley — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:56:17 +0000

Oh wow, I actually have that copy of JLA. Hilarious!

By: Superecwfan1

Superecwfan1 — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:49:41 +0000

Poor Aquaman. Guy seems like DC’s favorite punching bag.

I heard an old rumor Nic Cage bought back a lot of the comics he sold off. Of course thats a rumor and nothing more.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:57:52 +0000

Poor Aquaman. Nobody even acknowledges his super-strength; just the fish talking power.