Yeah, I have a Kitchen Sink Press issue of the Spirit with a CC Beck interview that covers this. I’ll post the pertinent information whenever I pull it out from my parent’s house.

J.A.P.

Consider this my two weeks’ notice.

“Never Open William’s Head Evil Reptiles Emerge.”

“Now Or When Hospital Earrings Revive Ernest.”

“Naked Old Widows Hover Earlier Around Easter.”

*cue laugh track*

Adam is the opposite: Originally “Shazam” meant the same thing to him as to Billy, but in recent years it was retconned to be the vaguely more culturally appropriate stamina of Shu, swiftness of Heru, strength of Amon, wisdom of Zehuti, power of Aton, and courage of Mehen.

Theno

But contextually, it’s that ancestors of LEGION formed a group that uses the word in their name.
4th dimensional thinking and all.

Would R.E.B.E.L.S. be the only entry on a Top 5 list of “acronyms that contain an ancronym that’s part of the acronym”?

LEGION is one of the most successful attempts to cram meaning into a pre-determined set of letters, but I could just never take it seriously as a name. “Gee, what a coincidence that the team made up of ancestors of or people with vague connections to the LSH happens to have a long bureaucratic title that happens to spell out LEGION!” But STAR, OMAC, and SHAZAM all hit the sweet spot– evocative sounds or words with real meanings that don’t seem forced.

Revolutionary Elite Brigade to Eradicate L.E.G.I.O.N. Supremacy

Peyer “got” Vril Dox, I think.

That said, I don’t even know what REBELS stood for, like, at ALL, so it can’t be all that memorable!

Or maybe not, you better forget that book existed.