Recommended Shazam! Titles

We’re just under two weeks from the official release of the Shazam movie! What are your essential or favorite titles starring Billy Batson’s marvelous alias that you would recommend to readers that are looking to expand their Shazam experience outside of the movie?

I dig:

-Shazam! The New Beginning: the first Shazam title in post-Crisis continuity (and spinning out of the Legends mini-series), this four issue mini-series reinvigorated Shazam for the new DC Universe right alongside John Byrne’s Superman, George Perez’s Wonder Woman, Mike Baron and Butch Guice’s Flash and the legendary J.M. DeMatteis and Keith Giffen penned Justice League. A fun revamp for a fun character. This series (and the aforementioned Legends mini-series) are currently available in the Comics section.

-The Power of Shazam!: the wonderful talents of Jerry Ordway are on display in this fun ongoing series. This was the most recent Shazam ongoing until the current title penned by Geoff Johns. 35 of the 47 issues of this title can be found in the Comics section.

-Shazam! and the Monster Society of Evil: featuring great writing and art by the wonderful Jeff Smith, this 4 issue miniseries is a quintessential Shazam tale.

-Billy Batson and The Magic of Shazam!: a young ages ongoing series that ran for 21 issues. It’s perfect for kids and the kid in all of us. Fun writing and art abound in this one.

-Shazam!: the newest comic iteration of the World’s Mightiest Mortal. It’s a fun series and only three issues in at this writing. Super easy to jump on-board with and as it’s written by Geoff Johns, it’s a marvelously good read too!

Those are my picks. What are your recommended Shazam! reads?

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all of these are great picks, but i have to add on the 70’s shazam books for the classic marvel family books.

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Next week’s DCUBC has an EXCELLENT Shazam story in there. And while it is a part of The Multiversity it’s still defiantly worth checking out even if you don’t want to read the other books. It’s Thunderworld Adventures!

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Anything written by E Nelson Bridwell

@nyton I saw a week or two ago that the 70’s Shazam material is finally getting a trade release. I’ll have to check it out. I like your profile pic BTW. Filmation Aquaman is great.

@MattMcDonald Thunderworld Adventures was great! I look forward to revisiting it.

The new Shazam series by Geoff Johns is really good can’t wait to see how it develops.

Loved his earlier Shazam run also, though I never got to finish the entire run.

This might be a good crossover moment in Vroom threads, but no crisis needed! JSA has some very good use of Billy and C!ptain M@rv&l.

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My personal favorites are his interactions in Justice League International. Hilarious dialogue especially when Guy Gardner pops up. There were 2 TPBs that were standalone stories years after the comic, one was called I Can’t Believe Its Not the Justice League. One of those in particular was comedy gold with Billy, Ms. Marvel and Guy Gardner.

@Misfit Funny enough you mention Captain Marvel in JSA as I’m currently reading issues of that series featuring him and Black Adam on DCU.

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I want to give a shout out to Superman/Shazam!: First Thunder, Judd Winick’s excellent miniseries about Superman and Shazam’s first meeting. The ending has stuck with me for a long time, and I really recommend seeking it out.

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HCQ, I was so close to including that mini. It’s a good one for sure!

Speaking of Judd Winick penned tales starring Superman and Shazam, I enjoyed the Lightning Strikes story from the mid-00’s (Action Comics #826, Adventures of Superman #639 and Superman #216 for anyone wanting to read it). It features slick art by Ian Churchill too.

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Man, I just can’t get into the Shazam by committee thing that’s currently going on with the new run. (Although i totally understand the reasoning)
I like the family idea, but I don’t think it should be the constant focal point of relaunching of the character (picking up where new 52 left off)
I also feel like it’s regurgitated tripe.
The realms of magic all few like they have been done at nausea (if their names and descriptions thus far are accurate) The first one was sort of a Peter Pan/Children of the corn.
Video game land? I mean, really?

That being said, I still buy, I still read, fingers are crossed. (The art and alt-covers have been amazing, the Jim Lee#4 is gorgeous)
But as a captain marvel fan, I miss my wisdom of Solomon and classic heroism
(“Let him go or get wrecked” is something I’d never think CM would say)
I’ve mentioned elsewhere they should trade out Solomon & Atlas for Socrates and Apollo for the Earth1 version(they did this in trials of Shazam where Freddy received the Magic of Apollo, because Atlas was just DONE-ski. side bar: it’s also where Captain Marvel first gave the NAME “Shazam” to Freddy as he took up the mantle while he was in Gandalf the white mode at the ROE.
The Magic of Apollo would also play excellent in the new run.

I’d love to see MORE earth5 Captain marvel. He can still exist, he can still have his buccaneer boots and fabric suit, he can still inherently know his powers and be “that hero”
The main run can have his “greatest American hero” and boyish charm.

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