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 remained unpublished, alongside the rest of the Marvel Family, for years.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
Marvel Super-Heroes (comics) Marvel Super-Heroes (comics) Marvel Super-Heroes is the name of several comic book series and specials published by Marvel Comics. The first was the one-shot "Marvel Super Heroes Special" #1 (Oct. 1966) produced as a tie-in to "The Marvel Super Heroes" animated television program, reprinting "Daredevil" #1 (April 1964) and "The Avengers" #2 (Nov. 1963), plus two stories from the 1930s-1940s period fans and historians call Golden Age of comic books: "The Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner Meet" ("Marvel Mystery Comics" #8, June 1940), and the first Marvel story by future editor-in-chief Stan Lee, the two-page text piece "Captain America Foils