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Captain Marvel blasts off with a brand new Premium Format Figure from Sideshow Collectibles Capturing her beauty and power from Marvel Comics, Carol Danvers comes in at 23.75" tall and 13.25" wide She is showcased in one of her iconic supersuits, and she blasts off with two photon blasts with an exploding base The colors[...]

As the trailer did reveal Patrick Stewart's Professor X in his classic yellow hoverchair, we also saw Hayley Atwell's Captain Carter/Britain, originally introduced in the animated What If…, from the back, and Lashana Lynch's Captain Marvel. Hayley Atwell and Anson Mount in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) Image courtesy of Marvel Studios Doctor Strange[...]

Binary discovers the joy of cats in this preview of Captain Marvel #38, but Spider-Woman has other plans What does Spider-Woman have against cats? Is she a skrull again? Check out the preview below. Captain Marvel #38 by Kelly Thompson & Juan Frigeri & Alvaro Lopez, cover by R.B Silva CAPTAIN MARVEL NO MORE! Carol Danvers is missing![...]

In August 2022, Marvel Comics published Avengers Forever #9 by Jason Aaron and Aaron Kudler, featuring more Carol Danvers, Captain Marvel, than ever before Just as the Captain Britain Corps mirrored the Green Lantern Corps, but across the multiverse rather than space, so it seems we will have a multiversal Captain Marvel Corps Or, as[...]

With Captain Marvel riding high as one of the top characters in comics with a popularity that rivaled Superman throughout much of the Golden Age, in 1941-1942 and again in 1947-1952 Fawcett Publications produced a number of giant, squarebound annual editions targeting the holiday and otherwise gift-giving market.  Gift Comics and Xmas Comics both topped[...]

Whiz Comics #155 is the beginning of the end of an important chapter in American comic book history.  The Fawcett Publications title had launched one of the most important and successful characters of the Golden Age 13 years earlier with the debut of Captain Marvel in Whiz Comics #2, and its end presaged the closure[...]

Carol visits the Starjammers in a space prison in this preview of Captain Marvel Annual #1, in stores Wednesday from Marvel Or does she? Some of the other prisoners have a hard time believing it's her because she isn't "meaty" enough They like their cosmic superheroes thicc in space prison Either way, there's gonna be[...]

Carol and Monica beat up some cute kitties… again… in this preview of Captain Marvel #37 Where's PETA when you need them?! Check out the preview below. Captain Marvel #37 by Kelly Thompson & Julius Ohta, cover by R.B Silva THE STARS THEY WERE MEANT TO BE! After the brutal fight in "Last of the Marvels," Carol Danvers[...]

And in June, he'll be returning to write Genis-Vell: Captain Marvel #1 in a new mini-series starting in June, drawn by Juanan Ramírez out in June. Genis-Vell: Captain Marvel #1 From Peter David & Juanan Ramírez He's back! Recently resurrected in 'The Last of the Marvels,' the latest story arc in Kelly Thompson's hit run on CAPTAIN[...]

The United States declared War on Japan on December 8, 1941 in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and responded in kind to Germany and Italy's subsequent declaration of war on December 11, 1941.  But by the Fall of that year, the media and public sentiment had begun to view America's entry into[...]

Captain Marvel teams with her own Binary form to take on Vox Supreme in this preview of Captain Marvel #36 We're rooting for them to win But more importantly, can Rhodey look forward to a Dr Manhattan style threesome when all of this is over?! Check out the preview below. Captain Marvel #36 by Kelly Thompson &[...]

This May, Captain Marvel will be replaced in her own comic by Binary But no, that doesn't mean she's replacing herself Though Carol Danvers was once Binary, now Captain Marvel, she is no longer Binary, but Binary will be Captain Marvel starting with Captain Marvel #28 Is that all clear? No? Okay, let's let Marvel[...]

Captain Marvel, also known as Shazam, is a superhero originally published by Fawcett Comics and currently published by DC Comics Artist C C Beck and writer Bill Parker created the character in 1939, the alter ego of Billy Batson, a boy who, by speaking or thinking the magic word "Shazam!" (acronym of six "immortal elders":[...]

Whiz Comics #58 features one of my favorite Captain Marvel covers of all time There is just something so iconic and reassuring seeing him all iconic on this cover C.C Beck is a favorite of mine; imagine walking into a drug store and seeing this book on the rack back in the day That this[...]

Captain Marvel may not get a ton of merch these days, even with Shazam hitting the big screen a couple of years ago, but there was a time when there was no hero more popular Seeing these relics from the past, like this plush of Marvel from 1946, is always a sight to behold, and[...]

The solicit for Captain Marvel #35 promises "the biggest expansion of the Captain Marvel mythos since she took the name and claimed her stars." Check out the preview below. Captain Marvel #35 by Kelly Thompson & Sergio Dávila, cover by R.B Silva "THE LAST OF THE MARVELS" PART 4 As Carol and the other Marvels fight to save[...]

Whiz Comics #1 is the first appearance of Captain Marvel, these days known as Shazam!, created by C.C Beck and Billy Parker from 1940 With under a hundred copies in any condition slabbed by CGC, a copy up for auction today from ComicConnect will naturally get a little attention They say "This copy earned an[...]

With a sweeping global scope and taut, engrossing plotting, Black Panther #1 steps up in a massive way by establishing T'Challa in Marvel continuity while

There's a general impression that the character we now call Shazam but was created as Captain Marvel was sort of a kinder, gentler version of Superman — particularly in the Golden Age.  But I think that's not quite right, at least as far as the earliest issues of Whiz Comics are concerned.  It might be[...]

Wonderfully weaving unexplored corners of previous storylines with a very clever story conceit, Death of Doctor Strange: Avengers #1 binds together so

It looks like Hot Toys as recreated Captain Marvel's pager that Nick Fury uses in the end credits scene of Avengers: Infinity War This device brought home one of the most powerful cosmic beings which in turn saved Tony Stark and Nebula from peril in space The Captain Marvel Pager Life-Size Collectible from Sideshow and[...]

Beck makes Whiz Comics #4's Captain Marvel tale a fascinating reflection of this particular moment in history.  A tough to get and important issue of a historic comic book series, there's a Whiz Comics #4 (Fawcett Publications, 1940) CGC VG/FN 5.0 Cream to off-white pages available at the 2021 October 17-18 Sunday & Monday Comic Books[...]

Captain Marvel #33 is in stores from Marvel Comics on Wednesday, and in this preview, we find the titular Captain Marvel fleeing a group of unknown assassins who are part of a villainous plot to capture all the heroes with "Marvel" in their names in the Marvel Universe (Don't overthink it; it's comics.) Who could[...]

Marvel has filed lawsuits to block creator estates from terminating copyrights of Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Iron Man, Thor, Hawkeye, others

Miss Josette Frank of the Child Study Association of America declared that conflicts between parents and children over the subject of comic bocks might be far more harmful than the poorest comic book ever would be."  The young fan who assembled the Promise Collection would've been about 13 in 1944. Superman #26, Captain Marvel #18. Around this[...]

It's Captain Marvel vs Captain Marvel in this preview of Captain Marvel #32, in stores on Wednesday from Marvel Comics Will Captain Marvel emerge victorious? Or will it be Captain Marvel who wins the day? Check out the preview below, true believers! CAPTAIN MARVEL #32 MARVEL COMICS JUL210694 JUL210695 – CAPTAIN MARVEL #32 GARBETT VAR – $3.99 JUL210696 – CAPTAIN[...]

There's a general impression that the character we now call Shazam but was created as Captain Marvel was sort of a kinder, gentler version of Superman — particularly in the Golden Age.  But I think that's not quite right, at least as far as the earliest issues of Whiz Comics are concerned.  It might be[...]

Captain Marvel #31 is in stores from Marvel Comics on Wednesday, and we just so happen to have a preview right here In that preview, Carol takes her boyfriend War Machine on a nice vacation to visit her half-sister in space On the itinerary? A relaxing trip through the sewers to battle a sludge monster[...]

It's clear that, when it comes down to it, what truly makes a superhero a superhero is their daddy issues, which means that an upcoming Marvel Tales collection, Genis-Vell: Marvel Tales #1, could be one of the greatest superhero stories of all time. Genis-Vell is the son of Mar-Vell, the original Captain Marvel who died of[...]

"The Last of the Marvels" is the new Captain Marvel comic book storyline starting in September 2021, and reflecting the name of the next movie, The Marvels And bringing back more of those who have wielded the name such as Genis-Vell Son of original Captain Mar-Vell, he was big in the nineties, and got his[...]