Instead of yelling “Shazam,” teenage Jones would clang together cosmic wrist jewelry called Nega-Bands - “Ktang!” - and be replaced by the adult Mar-Vell. Writer Roy Thomas tipped his hat to the original Captain Marvel by sending the new version to the Negative Zone, where he could only be freed when ubiquitous sidekick Rick Jones changed places with him. He also gained a snappy red, blue and gold super-suit - and his own Billy Batson, sort of. He gained flight, super-strength, great resistance to injury and “cosmic awareness,” a sort of universal clairvoyance or precognition. A cosmic intelligence named “Zo” informed Mar-Vell that he was destined to be the “balance” of the universe, and in concert with the Supreme Intelligence - an amorphous blob of minds that leads the Kree - remade Mar-Vell. Oh, wait, that last part probably deserves explanation. Going by the name Captain Marvel - a corruption of his actual name and rank - Mar-Vell graduated to his own series, where he fought aliens, met Avengers and was given super-powers by mysterious cosmic entities. Needless to say, Mar-Vell didn’t stay a bad guy for long he came to love Earth and began fighting for her in his green-and-white Kree uniform, which we gullible Earthlings assumed to be a superhero costume. Unfortunately for Mar-Vell, Lawson had a criminal past, and he immediately became an object of suspicion for the Cape’s tough head of security, USAF Captain Carol Danvers. A spy for the Kree Empire, Mar-Vell was assigned to Earth, specifically to Cape Canaveral, where he took the disguise of dead rocket scientist Walter Lawson. An anthology title, “Marvel Super-Heroes,” introduced Captain Mar-Vell in 1967. Enterprises to get out of the Captain Marvel business, and threw in a $4,500 sweetener.Īnd lo, a Marvel Captain Marvel was born. According to the book “Slugfest,” Marvel actually nudged M.F. And if you’re “Marvel Comics,” wouldn’t you want that name?Īnd they got it. But maybe it lasted long enough to alert Marvel Comics that the name “Captain Marvel” was up for grabs. Enterprises Captain Marvel didn’t last long.
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