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  Captain Marvel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Captain Marvel was the original name of the fictional Marvel Comics superhero Monica Rambeau (aka Photon and Pulsar), a member of the Avengers.
Captain Marvel was Genis-Vell, the artificially-created son of Mar-Vell.
Captain Marvel is also the title of a 1972 jazz album and a song that appears on that album.
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 Encyclopedia: Marvel Comics
Marvel was able to capitalize on its successful superhero comics of the previous decade by acquiring a new newsstand distributor and greatly expanding its comics line.
Marvel Comics, sometimes called by the nickname House of Ideas, is an American (A native or inhabitant of the United States) comic book (A magazine devoted to comic strips) company (An institution created to conduct business).
Marvel Comics was founded in the 1930s (The decade from 1930 to 1939) under a constantly changing set of names, the most cited being Timely Comics.
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 Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first of these was created during a hiatus of the original Golden Age Captain Marvel, after Fawcett Comics ceased publication in the 1950s.
The third Captain Marvel was Genis-Vell, the genetically-engineered son of Mar-Vell and his lover Elysius, created from the late Mar-Vell's cell samples and artificially aged to physical, if not emotional, maturity.
In a November 2005 interview [[1]], Marvel editor Joe Queseda revealed there will be a new Captain Marvel, and that the character whom it will be is already in play.
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 Marvel Comics in the 1980s - The Death of Captain Marvel 1982
The Death of Captain Marvel was Marvel Comics first graphic novel and its success would be followed by an entire series of graphic novels.Every once and a while, you come across a comic that you can proudly endorse as the reason you still read comic books.
Captain Marvel and Elysius (his wife) retire to Titan in the company of Mentor and Eros.
In terms of Captain Marvel's character, Starlin focuses on Mar-Vell's inner conflict in that a warrior such as himself must meet death in bed.
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 Captain Marvel (DC Comics) - TheBestLinks.com - Shazam, Achilles, Acronym, Animated series, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Captain Marvel is a comic book superhero created by artist C.C. Beck and writer Bill Parker in 1940 and originally published by Fawcett Comics and now owned by DC Comics.
In addition, Captain Marvel was a member of the later incarnation of the Justice League while Mary Marvel and Captain Marvel Jr.
In 1954, their supply of Captain Marvel material was abruptly cut off, and they request the help of a British comic writer, Mick Anglo, who created a British copy of the superhero called Marvelman.
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 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Marvel Comics
This is the comic that introduced The Human Torch, Sub-Mariner, The Angel, Ka-Zar and other characters to the comics-reading world — but more important, it introduced a company that would eventually grow to be an industry giant.
Marvel Comics may have been the name of the comic (for one issue, anyway — with #2, it became Marvel Mystery Comics), but it wasn't the name of the publisher.
Marvel exploited the superhero trend to the hilt — then dropped it like a hot potato when it was no longer paying off.
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 Captain Marvel (DC Comics)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Through much of the Golden Age of Captain Marvel proved to be the most superhero character of the medium with his outselling all others including Superman.
In addition Captain Marvel was member of the later incarnation of the Justice League while Mary Marvel and Captain Marvel had memberships in the Teen Titans.
Outside comics Captain Marvel was portrayed in 1940 movie serial The Adventures of Captain Marvel which is often ranked among the examples of the form.
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 Movie Poop Shoot - COMICS 101
Captain Marvel’s villains were some of the most bizarre in all of comics.
Most fans of the Fawcett Captain Marvel consider the high point of the character to be a serial that ran in CAPTAIN MARVEL ADVENTURES for two years, from 1943 to 1945: “The Monster Society of Evil.” In the story, all of Captain Marvel’s enemies (including such fiends as Sivana, Ibac, Captain Nazi, Mr.
Marvel’s alien Mar-Vell character was moderately popular but never widely known, and different variations on their character have been continually published to this day.
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 Marvel Comics
Of this time Howard Siegel recently wrote, "Marvel was reluctant to give Don any work because Stan Lee had a policy of wanting the hired help to live locally, where and when he could control their output.
Marvel was guaranteeing Don a higher page rate for his pencils, as at that time, Marvel often paid "premium" artists a higher rate to get them to work there, and considered Don in that class.
He was promised more Avengers scripts from Marvel, but Marvel did not schedule work in the same fashion that DC did (they were much less organized, for one), and it resulted in a delay of incoming work for Don, something that he had never faced before at DC.
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 Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Created in the hiatus of the original Captain Marvel after Fawcett Comics ceased publication in the 1950s, these comic book characters were created by Marvel partially to take advantage of the fact that the character name was available for copyrighting.
The first of these, Captain Marvel(I) was an alien Military Officer, Captain Mar-Vell of the Kree Imperial Militia, who had been sent to observe the planet Earth, which was of great interest to the Empire for its resource potential.
The second Captain Marvel is an African-American woman who possesses the power to transform herself into any form of energy.
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 Marvel comics story. 1: 1939-1946 Captain America etc
Indeed, he was in comic book since 1938, you may as well say prehistory, before what he did comic strip and before again animated cartoon, as inbetweener on Popeye and Betty Boop.
Intrinsicaly, the character of Captain America was althoug far away to have the originality of the two former ones.
Captain America was but the last stage of the policy sketched by Human Torch, Submariner and others.
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 Shazam! The original Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel first appeared in 1940 in Whiz Comics, courtesy of Fawcett publications.
The Shazam title was chosen as Marvel Comics by then had its own "Captain Marvel" (a very different character).
Captain Marvel was originally to be called 'Captain Thunder'.
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 The SHAZAM! Page
Marvel Comics have had a number of characters of the name "Captain Marvel" and hold the current trademark on the name.
Although no distinction is made between the source of Captain Marvel's and Mary Marvel's powers in the modern SHAZAM series, in the not-so-politically-correct past, Mary received her powers from her very own "family" of goddesses.
Captain Marvel Junior: Freddy Freeman, a paper boy in Fawcett City was crippled during a battle between Captain Marvel and Captain Nazi.
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 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Captain Marvel (Photon)
Marvel Comics spent the late 1960s and all of the '70s trying to get the public interested in their version of Captain Marvel.
Monica Rambeau was a captain in the New Orleans Police Department, when she had one of "those" accidents — the kind that would kill anyone instantly in the real world, but in comic books merely induce transformation into a superhero.
As Captain Marvel, she was a place holder — keeping the trademark current, but not doing much else.
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 The Marvel Age of Comics
Marvel silver age comics are some of the most adventurous and epic stories ever published.
As many comic lovers know, this is Grandaddy of all Marvel comics, the 1939 Golden Age treasure which started it all for Marvel.
The earlier Captain Marvel was drawn by Gil Kane, but Starlin further developed him in later issues.
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 Marvel Encyclopedia - Encyclopedia Shop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Marvel Encyclopedia Off the Presses, Scoop, Friday, October 18, 2002 … the essentials on your favorite Marvel characters from Ant-Man to Wolverine.
Marvel Comics is the largest publisher of comic books in the United States.
Captain Marvel was among the most popular comic-book superheroes of the 1940s.
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 Captain Marvel: The Hero And His Legacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
CAPTAIN MARVEL IN THE GREATEST BATTLE OF In September, Captain Marvel is going up against heavy-hitters Bill Jemas and Joe Quesada over the fate of his own title...
Reprints class stories of the original Captain Marvel, his battles with Thanos, and his ultimate death.
This Marvel authorized fan site is maintained by James Pedrick who may be contacted at jamespedrick@yahoo.com.
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 Amazon.com: Captain Marvel Volume 2: Coven TPB (Marvel Heroes): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Captain Marvel Volume 4: Odyssey TPB (Captain Marvel) by Peter David
This is a collection of the Captain Marvel comic book, issues 9-12 of the current series (begun in 2002).
The series is based upon the idea that the alien Captain Marvel, Genis Vell, was gifted with cosmic awareness, allowing him to be aware of things happening all around the universe, the past, the future, potential outcomes of every action happening everywhere, and all this knowledge has driven him insane.
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 MarvelDirectory.com
The database has been designed just like the comic book series "The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe." We have the support of the Marvel Fan Site program, this allows us to bring you graphics and Marvel material that they provide and support.
I have also updated Bucky (I) and Captain Marvel (I).
All names of characters and the distinctive likeness(es) thereof are Trademarks of Marvel Character, Inc. and are used with permission.
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 Marvel Comic Ring
Marvel Comics #1 introduced The Human Torch, Sub-Mariner, The Angel, Ka-Zar and other characters to the comics-reading world — but more important, it introduced a company that would eventually grow to be an industry giant.
Contains an image gallery, summaries of all comics Marrow appeared in, information on merchandise, fan art, and bios of Marrow as well as all of the Morlocks and Gene Nationals.
The Marvel Value Stamp Index is intended to provide comprehensive information on the Marvel Comics promotional program which ran during the 1970's.
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 eBay - marvel comics captain, Comics, Men's Clothing items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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 Marvel.com - avengers
Get information on comics and graphic novels on sale in the Marvel catalog.
All-new Official Handbook Of The Marvel Universe A To Z #1
Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales To Astonish Vol.
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 Comic Warehouse - 505-293-3065 - Silver-Age Marvel Comics
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 CSAB: Olshevsky -- Marvel Comics Index 1.3: Avengers, Defenders, and Captain Marvel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Cross-Index of Captain Marvel and Defenders Stories by Personnel...
Cross-Index of Captain Marvel and Defenders Stories by Major Characters...
All illustrative material, the cover logo, characters and story titles in the MARVEL COMICS INDEX are Copyright (c) 1975, MARVEL COMICS GROUP, a division of Cadence Industries Corporation, and are reproduced and published with their written permission.
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 The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
Comedy Comics (I) Golden Age of Marvel Comics TPB 2
Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) TPB: The Life of Captain Marvel 1
Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) TPB: The Life and Death of Captain Marvel 1
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1 in marvel comics, nemesis of captain marvel gained power from hist initials, each corresponding to a person.
There are 2 who own rights to captain marvel - marvel comics and Shizam (Shazam?) comics - the local store thought it was the second
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