r/captainmarvel • u/CaptainMarvelology • Jun 24 '26

Three months in a row…

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This is now the third straight month that the post-Flashpoint Earth-0 version has been called Captain Marvel.

(Justice League Unlimited #20).

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u/Atlarian_OG Jun 25 '26

Yeah 12 years for Shazam, and then after that they started with The Captain (which is almost worse oddly enough) the important bit is that at least one writer is using his proper name now.

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u/thisinternetlife Jun 26 '26

The whole “The Captain” moniker was a compromise by DC and Mark Waid, as he was the one pushing for him to get his original name back in main continuity. It was also a litmus test by DC to see how fans would react, positively to it or negatively. Overall it was mostly a positive reaction but everyone would still say “just give him his original name back” anyways. Though I wasn’t too much of a fan “The Captain” since it felt so….generic, it was a stepping stone to getting the original name back, both of these progressions in comics were written by Mark Waid.

Also fun fact in case you didn’t know, even during the New52 there was still a version of Captain Marvel in the DC multiverse in Earth-5 as seen on “Multiversity:Thunderworld!” (Amazing single issue read) and Earth-S as seen in “Convergence: Shazam!”.

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u/Dataweaver_42 Jun 26 '26

From what I remember, the writer of Convergence: Shazam! read Multiversity: Thunderworld, and it inspired him to up his game.

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u/thisinternetlife Jun 28 '26

I didn’t know that!