Product Description

Given powers by an ancient and mysterious wizard, boy reporter Billy Batson need only say the word "Shazam!" and he is transformed into the powerful adult hero Captain Marvel.

Magical turmoil in the aftermath of INFINITE CRISIS force Captain Marvel to give up his role as Earth's Mightiest Mortal to keep the supernatural under control. Freddie Freeman, also known as Captain Marvel Jr., has been left powerless by these events, but is given the opportunity to take over the mantle of his mentor if he can pass tests administered by the gods themselves. The only catch is that he has to earn each of his super-abilities from scratch.

Red-hot writer Judd Winick (OUTSIDERS) teams with fan-favorite artist Howard Porter (JLA) to redefine the iconic hero for a new generation of action and adventure.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #432657 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-06
• Released on: 2007-06-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781401213312
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Sad,sick,.
The twisted irony of this is D.C.(the company that constantly sued Fawcett in the Golden Age)still to this day can't figure out how to do Captain Marvel. Yet another poor retread to a character that they don't or won't understand. You can update the feature without raping it of it's orignal charm and class. But bringing Judd Winick is a bad move,and the art is just too unsteady,Howard Porter was never that good an artist.
The story's needlessly elongated,late and not worthy the wait.
Buy Jeff Smiths book instead.

I'd have giving it no stars,but you can't do that here.

A rush job, incomplete, and unworthy of the character
I don't dislike what they are doing with Captain Marvel. The former Billy Batson/Captain Marvel is taking over after the original Wizard Shazam has died and Captain Marvel, Jr. is taking his place as the new Captain Marvel of the DC Universe. In order to get his new powers he has to earn them one at a time, fine.

The problem I have is DC rushed to get this out. It isn't even complete you only get half of the story. Instead of waiting and publishing the whole mini-series you get half way through a fight scene and it ends. The comic book industry is plagued right now with late books. Marvel is actually FAR worse than DC about this at the moment, but this is DC worst aggression so far, putting out half a series while they wait for their artists and writers to slowly churn out the rest. Now, in order to get the whole story, DC is going to milk TWO thin graphic novels out of this instead of one.

Don't buy it, it's not worth it, wait until DC actually finishes the story and then releases it as a whole. Shame on you DC.

It doesn't really seem Captain Marvel-ish.
I read this series in Comic book form rather than in Trade Paperback Collection form, but I can't say that it was all that great. I'm a huge Captain Marvel fan, and there's so little comic book material out there related to him that I just had to snatch this series up, but I have to say that it didn't really feel like it fit the "motif" and the "feel" of Captain Marvel and his particular brand of superheroism. It just felt like a genericially "edgy" story about a boy going through trials to get powers, only they stuck it into the Captain Marvel universe with the old SHAZAM characters.

Not a totally bad read, and the art was pretty decent, but it didn't measure up to the stuff that's been done with Captain Marvel in the past. Like another reviewer said, it really just seems like DC doesn't know how to get Captain Marvel/SHAZAM right a lot of the time. They just seem to pigeonhole him into stories that don't work for him instead of playing to his strengths.