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PD Redesign: Captain Shazam

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Captain Shazam, Champion of the Gods
Real Name: Sofós
Powers: Super Strength, Super Speed, Invulnerability, Flight, Genius Intellect, Electrical Manipulation, Expert Martial Artist
Equipment: None
First Appearance?: Fatman, the Human Flying Saucer #2 (June, 1967)

Origin
"Over 3000 years ago, The Greek Gods saw that the forces of Tartarus were rising, about to pour into the mortal world and cause mass destruction that not even the Heroes of Greece themselves can stop it. It was not until Zeus had the idea of selecting a champion, one that can take the task to protect the entrance to Tartarus, making sure that it's evils remain there. So they selected Sofós, a scholar from Athens, to give the power necessary to stop the forces of evil from escaping. So Sofós stayed in Tartarus, sealing the entrance to keep him and the demons inside, fighting off those that try to escape."

Captain Shazam was a character promised by Lightning Comics, however the company folded up before it ever saw print. Lightning Comics was founded by C. C. Beck & Otto Binder, the creators of Captain Marvel. So based on that and the name "Captain Shazam" I guess it was obvious to make him similar to Captain Marvel. The concept being if Shazam the Wizard still had the strength to fight evil, but with an outfit similar to Captain Marvel.
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Nicely done!

I'll be using Captain Shazam as a minor supporting character in a story(but he obviously won't be called ''Captain Shazam'').My take will still have the braided beard and he'll have long white hair,too! I want him to look like Gandalf and Dumbledore if they hit the gym!

Ha! Ha! It will be similar to how my Supreme parody,Specimen,that I've talked about before, will be a super-buff old guy! Ha! Ha!

I'm going to tell the artist that I want Specimen to look like bodybuilder Mike O'Hearn and to have the hair and beard of George Lucas! Ha! Ha!


C.C. Beck and Otto Binder created a lot of good characters! I'm excitedly looking forward to using all of the characters they created that are in the public domain! I think even Fatman The Human Flying Saucer will be especially fun to use! I've seen some people who want to use Fatman change the character's name and that's their prerogative but my version of Fatman will still be called that.To me,it's not a really an offensive and mean-spirited Super Hero-name and he's not really an offensive character. I like to say that Fatman is more wild,weird,goofy,zany,silly and bonkers as a concept and character than he is offensive. Yeah,his size was played for laughs(like Thor's was in Avengers:Endgame)and Fatman even used his very weight as a weapon and would even use his belly as a weapon(like how Kingpin used to do in the old Spider-Man comics)!


But I still never thought of Fatman as being malicious or some kind of underhanded way of mocking people who are overweight.

But at any rate,great redesign for Captain Shazam!