WHAT IF... Marvel Comics got this guy instead of DC?

WHAT IF... Marvel Comics got this guy instead of DC?

Mary Marvel would be Captain Marvel

he would at least be in an ongoing right now

it just wouldn't be a good one.

Yep, you summarize current Marvel pretty well.

The only good that would have come out of that would be keeping the name.

Billy would be far worse off for it. He doesn't fit with Marvel's constant continuity because if he grows up, he loses what makes his gimmick work. Not to mention he would be an idealistic hero in an a cynical world. He would probably fit right in during the early days of Marvel, but once you reach the 90's to Civil War you can bet he would be damaged beyond repair.

Marvel would have made him gay, promoted Mary to Captain Marvel, made her a femist with short hair, and killed Freddie and replaced him with a black illegal immigrant transgender Muslim.

Did freddie fought a black girl for the title of captain marvel?

I don't think that would happen, But i feel like they going to be ship with other heroes. Or mary going to be [BLACKED].

Died then replaced with Carol.

They did.

When National Comics forced Fawcett Comics out of publishing over a bogus claim that Captain Marvel was ripping off Superman (a mere 13 years after CM's debut), one of the conditions of the settlement they reached was that Fawcett would no longer market the character or license his use to a third party.

This placed international reprint partners in a bind; one, the UK's L. Miller & Son, Ltd., got around the lack of fresh material by commissioning Mick Anglo to create, script, and draw a replacement strip, which ran for 10 years or so as Marvelman, in which much of the story and background was the same - but since National didn't read UK comics, they never heard of Mick Anglo's Marvelman until it would have been much too late to do anything about it (typically UK law does not permit the bringing of a late suit to court simply because the plaintiff was ignorant of an infringement; it is the plaintiff's responsibility to protect their own works, and ignorance is not accepted as a delaying factor for publicly-sold works).

After L. Miller & Son. Ltd., facing falling sales, eventually cancelled Marvelman, the rights (according to Anglo's contract) of the character reverted to Anglo; but he wasn't aware of this at the time (ignorance here is not important - property is owned by its owner, and the character was explicitly not Captain Marvel, who by that time had no extant trademarks to protect). In any case, without a publisher or an audience, the rights were worthless to him at that time. Ironically, had he known it, he could have sold Marvelman to DC Comics (formerly National) at that time. Consequently the character languished in obscurity until the late 1970s, when it was resurrected by another company, as Miracleman. After a series of false starts and sales of the rights (originating with the sale from L. Miller & Son Ltd.), they ended up with Todd McFarlane of Image Comics and drawing Spider-Man really quite badly fame.

McFarlane had plans to use the character, but thanks to a dispute with Neil Gaiman over ownership of characters (which Gaiman eventually won), Gaiman discovered that the Marvelman/Miracleman rights had been sold in error and Anglo in fact still legally held them; as part of Gaiman's settlement with McFarlane, the rights to Gaiman's character from Spawn (Angela) were handed to Marvel Comics along with Marvelman/Miracleman (which involved buying back the creative rights to stories and art created after Anglo's involvement had ceased, which still rested with their respective creators even if the character/setting rights did not). Gaiman, along with Alan Moore and others who had worked on Marvelman/Miracleman without knowing Anglo still owned it, waived payment. Mick Anglo, by then in his 90s, presumably spent the last two years of his life not having to worry about money. His wife survived another few years.

The upshot of all this is that Marvel Comics now own the sole contiguous Captain Marvel character created after National shut down Fawcett in 1953, in addition to the Captain Marvel name (since 1967, five years before DC tried to acquire it). The... creature in your image is not Captain Marvel. It is Shazam, and has been marketed as such since the 1970s, when it was bought for reprint rights simply to spite a more popular competitor, an act which backfired badly and cost DC Comics a lot of wasted money. If they'd been reasonable, it too would eventually have become either public domain or a Marvel Comics character; but it is not, as depicted under DC Comics, Captain Marvel. Nothing since 1972 is canon to Fawcett Marvel.

They would run him into the ground like Sentry and replace him with a transvestite.

Jane Foster would be the new Shazam Marvel

Justice League Action made a great gag out of his name in a recent body swapping episode.

Even though I don't want to imagine fuckfest that would be seeing today's Marvel dealing with the Marvel Family, I would like to see them interact with the Fantastic Four and Busiek-ish Avengers.

Clark and Billy would have been fused in the 90s crossover

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They couldn't get away with killing a child.

At best they'd be able to make the child gay or make him Muslim, or turn him into a girl. Or turn him black. Or a combination of the above.

Crossover were Thor dies and Billy picks up Mjolnir when?

Marvel would make a pretty lame comic, but Disney-Pixar could probably pull off a neat Shazam movie.

He doesn't fit the Marvel style. Too innocent. They'd fuck him up.

the character would probably find success as marvel's answer to superman.

i know this is marvel we're talking about but even an idiot could see captain marvel as a better superman equivalent than captain america when you consider the former outsold superman and did well enough to get CnD

>dude they would ruin him unlike DC
>unlike DC
lmao

Marvel?

He would change from white boy into big strong transgender womyn.

SHAZAM
MY DICK JUST WENT KABLAM

Remember that time Marvel made a black, asian, and hispanic Captain Marvel?