Captain Marvel (DC Comics) Marvel's protégé, Captain Marvel, Jr., who was the alter-ego of Billy and Mary's best friend, the disabled newsboy Freddy Freeman. Before DC's "Crisis on Infinite Earths" comic book miniseries in 1985, the Marvel Family also included part-time members such as Mary's non-powered friend "Uncle" Dudley (Uncle Marvel) and three other protégés (all of whose alter egos are named "Billy Batson") known as the Lieutenant Marvels. A pink rabbit version of Captain Marvel, Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, appeared in his own stories featuring a funny-animal cast. The current-continuity version of Shazam has a Shazam Family made up of his five foster
Marvel Super Hero Squad (comics) Marvel Super Hero Squad (comics) Marvel Super Hero Squad is a comic book series based on "The Super Hero Squad Show". The series lasted for 4 issues then ended. Instead Marvel Comics started a monthly comic book series called Super Hero Squad, according to Marvel.com. On September 9, 2009, Marvel published the first "Super Hero Squad" comic - a one-shot reprinting several Super Hero Squad comic strips that had originally been published on Marvel.com. The one-shot was followed by a four issue limited series with stories inspired by the television series. At its conclusion, in March 2010, Marvel began publishing