Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:53:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Tami Whitehead 
Subject: Re: (urth) DOORS: Klamm, Green

Hang on True Believers, 
Make mine Marvel!!

Your intrepid razorkittee
Tami

--- Adam Stephanides  wrote:
> on 1/31/03 10:36 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes at
> ddanehy@siebel.com wrote:
> 
> > Aside from the well-known "The Music Man"
> reference, there's
> > another thing that might be of interest ... a
> subtle joke
> > known to some comix fans, perpetrated by C.C. Beck
> and the
> > Dell comix group back in the '50s, when they
> created CAPTAIN
> > Marvel. BILLY Batson, in the pages of WHIZ Comics,
> would say
> > the magic word "Shazam!" to become the Captain
> with a bolt
> > of lightning that usually included the sound
> effect: BANG.
> > 
> > Yes, Beck confirmed years ago that this was
> deliberate...
> 
> Neat!  I'm a fan of Beck's Captain Marvel, but I
> never noticed that.
> 
> Actually, Captain Marvel was published not by Dell,
> but by Fawcett -- which
> got its start with Captain Billy's Whiz Bang; Capt.
> Wilford H. Fawcett was
> the original "Captain Billy."  So the joke has more
> of a point than you
> thought.
> 
> --Adam
> 
> 
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