{"id":1616,"date":"2019-09-20T08:39:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T15:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2019-09-10T00:24:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T07:24:11","slug":"224-billy-is-not-captain-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/224-billy-is-not-captain-marvel\/","title":{"rendered":"224 &#8211; Billy is not Captain Marvel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"939\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/captain-marvel-is-not-billy-939x1024.png\" alt=\"A panel from Whiz Comics #41, March 1943\" class=\"wp-image-1617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/captain-marvel-is-not-billy-939x1024.png 939w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/captain-marvel-is-not-billy-275x300.png 275w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/captain-marvel-is-not-billy-768x838.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/captain-marvel-is-not-billy.png 1036w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 939px) 100vw, 939px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Whiz Comics #41, March 1943<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A neat story in which Billy Batson is transported 1000 years into the future results in a mixup when he tries to change into Captain Marvel by saying Shazam!  I thought it was interesting is the clarification that Captain Marvel seems to be a completely different persona than Billy, and is just &#8220;answering&#8221; Billy&#8217;s call.  Captain Marvel is <em>not<\/em> simply Billy Batson&#8217;s mind in a superhero body (unlike later comic book and feature film adaptations).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neat story in which Billy Batson is transported 1000 years into the future results in a mixup when he tries to change into Captain Marvel by saying Shazam! I thought it was interesting is the clarification that Captain Marvel seems to be a completely different persona than Billy, and is just &#8220;answering&#8221; Billy&#8217;s call. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[257,121,122,235],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-257","tag-captain-marvel","tag-fawcett","tag-secret-identity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1680,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}