Marvel, Captain
Marvel, Captain cartoon character in American comics from 1940; a red-costumed superhero (resembling Superman), who has undergone a similar transformation. In real life he was Billy Batson, an orphan who was transformed into Captain Marvel with the utterance of the magic word Shazam.
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