{"id":138562,"date":"2019-04-04T20:48:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T02:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138562"},"modified":"2019-04-04T20:48:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T02:48:31","slug":"the-tangled-histories-of-the-captains-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/04\/the-tangled-histories-of-the-captains-marvel.html","title":{"rendered":"The Tangled Histories of the Captains Marvel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I knew pretty much all of this, but it’s still a fine analysis of “Captain Marvel” — the origin story(ies), why the original isn’t called that any more, why the one called by that name isn’t the original even in their own comic book company, and why the story is entangled not just with two comic book companies but with others foreign and domestic.<\/p>\n

But the story of the Captain Marvels begins decades before Marvel Comics was even calling itself \u201cMarvel Comics,\u201d and it\u2019s much, much wilder than you could ever expect. Among other things, it involves Superman,\u00a0Spawn<\/em>\u00a0creator Todd McFarlane, the UK\u2019s Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act of 1955, the word \u201catomik\u201d spelled backwards, and preeminent United States legal scholar, Judge Learned Hand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I liked this:<\/p>\n

They say that life is stranger than fiction, but I know it to be true; because both Marvel and DC Comics have characters known as \u201cCaptain Marvel,\u201d and in 2019, both of those characters have feature films out within a month of each other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The tangled stories of the Captains Marvel is darned fun. Enjoy:\u00a0 Shazam & Captain Marvel are forever linked. This is the wild story why – Polygon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One who was first called it isn’t any more. One who is now called it wasn’t before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,852,108,525],"tags":[1819,1825],"class_list":["post-138562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-comics","category-dc-cinematic-univese","category-history","category-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-captainmarvel","tag-shazam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/captain-marvel-and-captain-marvel-shazam.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":155237,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/04\/marvellous.html","url_meta":{"origin":138562,"position":0},"title":"Marvellous","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 4-Sep-21 11:31pm","format":"aside","excerpt":"Some vocal bros sure seem to be constantly threatened by strong female heroes.","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"Ms Marvel and Captain Marvel uniforms","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Ms-Marvel-and-Captain-Marvel-uniforms.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Ms-Marvel-and-Captain-Marvel-uniforms.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Ms-Marvel-and-Captain-Marvel-uniforms.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Ms-Marvel-and-Captain-Marvel-uniforms.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Ms-Marvel-and-Captain-Marvel-uniforms.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":43624,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/17\/and-its-the-captain-america-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":138562,"position":1},"title":"And it's the new Captain America (again)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 17-Jul-14 7:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sure I'm compressing things, but didn't we just recently have a replacement for Steve Rogers for a year or two? \u00a0And isn't it odd (and probably unhelpful) timing to swap out the identity of two prominent Marvel heroes so closely together (with Thor's replacement just a few days ago)?I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136909,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/waiting-for-captain-marvel-2019.html","url_meta":{"origin":138562,"position":2},"title":"Waiting for “Captain Marvel” (2019)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Sep-18 2:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"(And, just to be clear, I'm talking about the Marvel movie by that name, not the Shazam movie coming from DC, starring a character who used to be called \"Captain Marvel\" but now is called \"Shazam.\" Got it? 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