Captain Marvel Jr. character as resembling Tiny Tim as Freddy Freeman, and Peter Pan as Captain Marvel Jr.). Junior, Captain Marvel, and Mary Marvel began appearing together in "The Marvel Family" comic book beginning in 1945. That title and Junior's own ran until 1953, when Fawcett Publications discontinued all the Marvel Family comic books as the result of a lawsuit brought by National Comics (later DC Comics). After Fawcett Comics folded, Captain Marvel Jr. remained unpublished, alongside the rest of the Marvel Family, for years. In 1972, DC Comics purchased the rights to the Marvel Family characters and revived them in a new
The Super Hero Squad Show ABC3, in October 2009. A massively multiplayer online game, entitled "Marvel Super Hero Squad Online" was released to the public in April 2011. The game is heavily based on the "Super Hero Squad" franchise, with "The Super Hero Squad Show"'s character designs returning. A four-part comic book series based on the show called "Marvel Super Hero Squad" was released in the fall of 2009. The series was a success and Marvel renewed the series in January 2010 as an ongoing series, now entitled: "Super Hero Squad". The comic does not feature only characters from the show, but also characters outside