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Captain Marvel

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Captain Marvel

US comic-book character created 1940 by C(larence) C(harles) Beale (1910-1989). Captain Marvel is a 15-year-old schoolboy, Billy Batson, who transforms himself (by saying ‘Shazam’) into a superhuman hero wearing a red-and-yellow caped athletic suit.



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is more convenient than believable," runs the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, and School Library Journal agrees: "What has been an adept and creepily believable tale edges into Captain Marvel land.
On a cold and blizzardy morning, 11-year-old Michael Devlin gets out of bed early, with his head full of fantasies of Captain Marvel and the power of the word ``shazam,'' and makes his way through snowy streets to serve as altar boy at Saturday Mass.
He pointed to the presence of Disney, Captain Marvel, Madame Tussaud and other entertainment wonders as a outcome of the public/private partnership that has been forged through business and tax incentive packages, a sea change in economic development approaches under Mayor Guiliani.
 
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