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 Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness is a five-issue 2007 comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics in association with Dynamite Entertainment, an intercompany crossover in which Ash Williams, hero of the popular "Evil Dead" film and comic book, finds himself in the "Marvel Zombies" setting, a world of flesh-eating zombified Marvel Comics heroes. The crossover is continuous with the "Marvel Zombies" prequel "" and explains events happening in the prequel (such as information regarding the zombified Sentry, which initially spread the plague). Prior to the release of the first issue,