{"id":2526,"date":"2020-07-06T07:59:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T14:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2020-06-03T13:10:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T20:10:02","slug":"425-captain-marvel-is-not-billy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/425-captain-marvel-is-not-billy\/","title":{"rendered":"425 &#8211; Captain Marvel is not Billy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"566\" height=\"672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/billy-is-not-captain-marvel.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/billy-is-not-captain-marvel.png 566w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/billy-is-not-captain-marvel-253x300.png 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Whiz Comics #112, June 1949<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>From Whiz Comics #112 (June 1949), Fawcett Comics continues to draw a hard line between Billy Batson and Captain Marvel &#8211; which are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/224-billy-is-not-captain-marvel\/\">still clearly different people<\/a>,  I was surprised to learn that this did not change until well after Fawcett went under and DC acquired the rights to the character.  In fact, it wasn&#8217;t until the 1980s after the Crisis on Infinite Earths reboot, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbr.com\/shazam-billy-batson-same-person-debut\/2\/\">Captain Marvel was established as Billy Batson&#8217;s mind in a superhero body<\/a>.  There is clearly much more story material to mine from this situation, so I&#8217;m glad they made that change &#8211; it made for a quite fun movie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Whiz Comics #112 (June 1949), Fawcett Comics continues to draw a hard line between Billy Batson and Captain Marvel &#8211; which are still clearly different people, I was surprised to learn that this did not change until well after Fawcett went under and DC acquired the rights to the character. In fact, it wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[448,121,122,151],"class_list":["post-2526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-448","tag-captain-marvel","tag-fawcett","tag-shazam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526","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=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}