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
Black Adam the Johnny DC comic book series "Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam!" by Mike Kunkel, an all-ages series which follows its own continuity derived from Jeff Smith's 2007 miniseries "Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil". Black Adam appeared in the first four issues of "Billy Batson", published between late 2008 and early 2009. In this version, Black Adam's alter ego, Theo Adam, is a fourteen-year-old boy, although much of the rest of his backstory remains true to the original Fawcett version of the character. Within the context of the story, the wizard Shazam imprisoned the errant Theo Adam in