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Originally Posted by fjtorres
It's why Disney owns "Captain Marvel" while Warner only owns the original character of the same name: the creators stopped using it and others appropriated it. Marvel Comics was only the third and it took them something like 8 charscters before they found one that's stuck. For now.
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Also, the creators of the Fawcett Captain Marvel stopped using “Captain Marvel” because National Comics Publications (aka DC) sued Fawcett Comics in 1951 because DC believed that every super-powered hero was an illegal copy of Superman.
It was all very messy. As a result, Fawcett eventually settled out of court, closed its entire comics line, and laid off the artists and writers.
See more at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation...lications,_Inc.
Years later (in the 1970s), DC bought up the rights to the Fawcett superheroes. Even though they’d sued them out of existence. But by then, Marvel had their Captain Marvel (the Jim Starlin version, not Carol Danvers). So the original Captain Marvel became Shazam. But he was still called Captain Marvel inside the issues of the 1970s comics.
And the Jim Starlin version endured until dying from cancer in an iconic graphic novel in the 1980s.
There was also a lesser-known Captain Marvel from a smaller company in 1966 that lasted either five or six issues. And speculation that Marvel bought the rights to the name from that company.
In the DC revivals of the Shazam comics, they stopped calling the dude Captain Marvel inside the issues.