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Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

1737 - Spotlight on SHAZAM! in the Bronze Age, Part One

Comic Geek Speak Podcast - The Best Comic Book Podcast

Speakers of Geek

Graphic Novel, Superhero, Comicbook, Comicbooks, Comic Book, Comics, Arts, Comic Books, Arts & Entertainment, Comic

4.6653 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2019

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

In 1973, after 19 years in comic-book limbo, the Original Captain Marvel and Family burst out of their Suspendium prison and into the waiting arms of the very publisher that worked so hard to exile them in the first place: DC Comics! With Shazamaster Murd and his Lieutenant Marvels as your guides, return now to the early days of the good Captain's Bronze Age revival, from his first DC issue and his stormy reunion with his co-creator C.C. Beck to his first encounter with the other heroes of the DC Multiverse. Whimsy and wonder await! (2:30:20)

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0:00.0

All the great powers of six great gods and heroes have been gathered together and placed in the hands of boy broadcaster Billy Batson.

0:07.8

When he pronounces the name of the ancient Egyptian wizard Shazam, he becomes, in a blinding flash of lightning, Captain Marvel, the world's mightiest mortal.

0:17.3

Then, when evil is defeated, Captain Marvel repeats the word and changes back to Billy.

0:22.5

So amazing and sudden is the change that most people never realize what has happened.

0:28.7

This is Comic Geek Speak episode 1737, spotlight on Shazam!

0:34.5

In the Bronze Age.

0:36.2

Part one.

0:43.3

We got it on Wednesday.

0:45.6

And it was not about it going to the ball of love.

0:48.3

He's not going to talk about it.

0:49.6

Everything can keep his love.

0:51.0

Forget the laser beat.

0:52.0

The leaves like the skis.

0:53.3

There's not everything you're reading

0:54.6

I'm at a movie

0:55.9

game

0:56.6

toy artist

0:58.0

come

0:58.5

I'm coming come

1:00.5

come come come

1:00.8

come come come

1:02.8

come come come

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