TERRIFIC TEAM-UP IMAGE: SUPERMAN PRESENTS CAPTAIN MARVEL (SHAZAM!)

SHAZAM!!! HAPPY 80TH, CAPTAIN MARVEL!!!

Though your initial appearance may be marked Feb '40, you really hit the scene in Dec  '39 per Fawcett's Whiz Comics and creators Bill Parker and C.C. Beck, becoming a lightning hit, enough to give the great Man of Steel some hardy competition. 

With Billy Batson as your conduit, you swept forth to save the day time and again, often engaging in intrepid, wartime endeavors.

Sometimes your scenarios were comical, other times serious, but through it all, you injected humanity into your super sprees, which featured a holy-moly family that combined individuality with devoted camaraderie. 

Alas, you've been cheated, Captain, your name stolen by others, but you're the main Marvel who'll ever be conjured by the magic word, "Shazam!" 

Indeed, no matter what those obnoxious naysayers may say, the veritable Captain Marvel is here to stay. Shazam!!!