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why do both marvel and dc have captain marvel????


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DC didn't maintain Captain Marvel's copyright after they aquired him in the mid50's. Marvel has had 3 Captain Marvels since the 60s. One male and two females. DC used Shazam as the brand name since rhe 70s but still calls the character Captain Marvel in the books.

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Captain Marvel/Shazam was originally created by Fawcett Comics and he was a straight up carbon copy of Superman. So DC decided to sue Fawcett comics because of the similarities and they won so they took Captain Marvel/Shazam and he became a DC character. Meanwhile Marvel of course didn’t like the fact that DC was about to introduce a new major superhero named Captain Marvel among their lineup so they decided to trademark everything that had the word Marvel. So when DC reintroduced their Captain Marvel they had to rename him as Shazam

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