>>102789008No, DC has been calling him Shazam for more than a decade.
Hell, even in the 1970s when he had a tv show it was the Shazam! Power Hour.
DC has never actually held the copyright in the name Captain Marvel - because they (as National Comics, back in the 1950s) fucked over Fawcett Comics, sending Fawcett Comics out of print until the Fawcett Publishing group decided to sell off the (worthless) back catalog in the 1970s. DC rented it for five years, then bought it outright, during which time they learned that a) copyright needs to be continuously renewed, there is no grandfather clause, and b) making tv shows doesn't give you the tv title rights either.
Frankly, from 1967 until 1972, Mar-vell was the only Captain Marvel, and a very respectful homage to the original without actively stealing his bit (which, to be honest, Marvel Comics could have legally done without anybody giving a shit). Since then... Marvel's Captains Marvel have been much more respectful legacy characters than the joke that DC turned their vanquished competitor into.
To put it in perspective: say DC had gone through with selling up to Marvel under Shooter in the early 1980s. Great! Now we can get Batman and Superman and all the rest in team-ups and feel-goods and whatever. Cap and Supes, together at last! Right?
Except the way DC has treated Shazam - and he is called Shazam now - is like if Marvel had bought Superman and just used him as everybody's little bitch for 40 years, or not published him at all for most of that time because they had, you know, Prowler and Dazzler Team-Up comics to put out instead.
Fuck DC, and fuck the way they hollowed out this once-great character, and fuck how some DCfriends always seem to be ready to call Shazam by the wrong name at the drop of a hat, like DC wouldn't drop the hammer on Image for putting out a Super-Man book about a character that wasn't really much like Superman at all. National doing that in the first place is what killed Fawcett.
