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
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