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04nbod (04nbod) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-30 14:47:00

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char: captain marvel jr./freddy freeman, char: supergirl/kara zor-el, creator: mauro cascioli, title: cry for justice

Cry for Justice #5 cover unveiled

Surely Jay Garrick is rushing to give 'the talk' to Freddy the same way he did Billy?
If you remember the solicit had an interior from issue 2 as the cover image. Things to keep in mind, if this is as it seems the world's mightiest MORTAL is involved with a kryptonian. How is that going to affect Lane's plans and propaganda? Surely Shazam is important to his Earth vs Krypton war. Intruiging.

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aaron_bourque
2009-10-31 09:08 am UTC (link)

Wait...who is he? I don't know much about the Shazam family books, so I'm a little clueless about them.

Freddy Freeman, aka Captain Marvel Junior, aka CM3, aka Shazam, started out as Captain Marvel's kid sidekick, a young boy with a bum leg who became a super hero when he said the words "Captain Marvel," making him the only superhero being published who couldn't say his own name.

A bunch of baloney went down and Captain Marvel's whole power dynamic shifted and I guess Freddy's calling himself Shazam, now, except he's not because that's now the magic word he uses to gain power.

And again, he can't say his own frikkin' name.

(Seriously, people, just make him Lieutenant Marvel, already!)

That said, I remember hearing about Shade from a Casstoon that kept going on about how utterly awesome he is...I thought he was a vertigo character. What's he doing here?

I believe you're thinking of Shade the Changing Man, originally a Steve Ditko creation for DC who "changed"--changed his appearance, basically--with the aid of extradimensional technology (a ripping espionage thriller back in the day), reinvisioned as a Vertigo character, a literal "changing man," so much so that at one point, for a while, he changed gender.

This is "The Shade," a golden age Flash villain given new life in the pages of Starman, and his own mini, which you should really track down to learn more about him. Think Jack Dawkins given immortality and power over shadows, and the moral ambiguity he never managed to develop fully in Oliver Twist.

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