Marvel Family Marvel Family The Marvel Family, also known as The Shazam Family, are a group of superheroes who originally appeared in books published by Fawcett Comics, and were later acquired by DC Comics. Created in 1942 by writer Otto Binder and artist Marc Swayze, the team was created as an extension of Fawcett's Captain Marvel franchise, and included Marvel's sister Mary Marvel, their friend Captain Marvel Jr., and, at various times, a number of other characters as well. Because Marvel Comics trademarked their own Captain Marvel comic book during the interim between the demise of the Fawcett Comics' Captain Marvel comics
Captain Marvel Jr. During the "Trials of Shazam!" miniseries, it was originally implied that Freddy would no longer "need" to speak the name of "Shazam!" to invoke the powers——that he could will them to manifest themselves——but he still prefers to effect the change by speaking the word. Formerly, he spoke the words "Captain Marvel!" and transformed into Captain Marvel Jr., but in this instance, his form remained the same. This applied even if he did not intend it. In his super-powered state, Freeman has the following magic based powers: In April 1950, the Belgian comic "Bravo" published its own version of "Capitaine Marvel