Superman/Shazam: First Thunder than he would ever be. In a separate subplot, Marvel's nemesis, Dr. Thaddeus Sivana, has contacted his business rival Lex Luthor and asked for assistance in destroying Captain Marvel. In exchange for Sivana selling Luthor back shares of LexCorp he'd been secretly buying, Luthor gives Sivana a man named Spec, a metahuman tracker-for-hire who eventually discovers that Captain Marvel is the alter ego of 11-year-old Billy Batson. After learning this, Sivana sends a heavily armed hit men to the subway where the orphaned Billy is living with orders to kill him. Calling upon the power of "SHAZAM", Captain Marvel dispatches
Ego the Living Planet his 1972 book "Outlaws of America", Author Roger Lewis argues that Ego the Living Planet reflected risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth that people were contemplating in the 1960s, when he was initially conceived. In 2007 "Ego the Loving Planet", the story that ran in "" #12, featured Ego, and was praised by Ray Tate of ComicsBulletin for its simultaneous inventiveness and logical sense. In August 2009, "Time" listed Ego as one of the "Top 10 Oddest Marvel Characters". Ego the Living Planet Ego the Living Planet is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel