Captain Marvel (not Shazam) had a sister named Mary. What happened to her was rather wrong.
Tag: Misplaced Heroes
Slightly Misplaced Comic Book Heroes Case File #141: Captain Marvel Jr.
The boy hero who helped inspire the King of Rock’n’Roll hasn’t been seen much lately.
Slightly Misplaced Comic Book Heroes Case File #140: Aztek The Ultimate Man
Sometimes attempting to create a new iconic hero just doesn’t work, even for a big name, popular creator.
Slightly Misplaced Comic Book Heroes Case File #139: Amazing-Man
A DC legacy hero that was retconned into the Golden Age after his creation in 1983.
Slightly Misplaced Comic Book Heroes Case File #138: Century
An Avengers team breaks up, becomes a more proactive group with a lame name, and then adds a mysterious alien. It’s Century, ladies and gentlemen!
Slightly Misplaced Comic Book Heroes Case File #137: Cecilia Reyes
An X-Man, sort of, who had a superpower of questionable usefulness and refused to adopt a codename.
Slightly Misplaced Comic Book Heroes Case File #136: Brainiac 2
Somewhere between one of Superman’s greatest enemies and one of the Legion of Superheroes’ loyalest members, there had to be a few others.
Slightly Misplaced Comic Book Heroes Case File #135: B’wana Beast
And here we go: another case when standards change and characters become outdated relics of a bygone age.
Slightly Misplaced Comic Book Heroes Case File #134: Gargoyle
There are other Defenders.
Slightly Misplaced Comic Book Heroes Case File #133: NFL SuperPro
Ho boy…