Post by Z451 on Feb 10, 2014 2:32:39 GMT
Freddy Freeman
According to Captain Marvel Jr.'s current DC origin story, Freddy Freeman was born and raised in a New England fishing village, living with his parents and his foster brother, Timothy Karnes.
When Freddy's parents drowned in a storm, Freddy's maternal grandfather Jacob took him in, while Timothy was sent to live with various foster families.
As an adult, Karnes would harness the powers of the underworld and become Sabbac, one of Captain Marvel Jr.'s enemies.
The teenage Freddy Freeman, living in Midwestern Fawcett City, was shown to be an all-star student and athlete at the Binder school in Fawcett City, and a friend of Captain Marvel's alter ego Billy Batson.
One afternoon, after winning a baseball game for his school team, Freddy and his grandfather Jacob went on a fishing trip in the Fawcett Bay.
At the same time, however, Captain Marvel found himself engaged in a battle with the supervillain Captain Nazi.
As in the Fawcett origin, one of Marvel's punches knocks Captain Nazi into the lake near Grandpa Jacob's boat, and Freddy and his grandfather are attacked when they attempt to save the villain from the water, as Freddy thinks he is Captain Marvel.
Captain Marvel intervenes and rushes both injured bystanders to a hospital.
Grandpa Jacob slips into a coma after being thrown into the lake by Nazi, and Freddy is found to have a severely injured spine and a broken leg, which will prevent him from ever walking again.
After a second attack from Captain Nazi, the injured Freddy is taken to the wizard Shazam by Captain Marvel and his sister Mary Marvel, who both grant the boy the power to become Captain Marvel Jr.
However, Jacob dies, and Captain Marvel Jr. goes on a rampage against Captain Nazi until the other Marvels intervene.
Nazi and Captain Marvel Jr. would become arch-enemies, regularly pitted against one another.
Junior becomes an integral member of the Marvel Family until he draws Billy's ire by making a pass at his sister.
The resulting conflict (created essentially to write Junior out of The Power of Shazam! from issue #13 on) causes Junior to leave Fawcett City and seek refuge in New York City, where he joins the Teen Titans.
At this time, the character's name was briefly changed to CM3 (short for Captain Marvel Three, with Billy being CM1 and Mary CM2), a name he could identify himself with in dialogue without triggering his transformation.
After some time spent with the Titans, Junior returns to Fawcett (and The Power of Shazam! comic with issue #42) and makes amends with Captain Marvel.
Another superhero team, The Outsiders, found themselves in a battle against Ishmael Gregor, who had killed Timothy Barnes and stolen his Sabbac powers.
Captain Marvel Jr. arrived to help the Outsiders dispatch Sabbac, and some time later Junior would join the team for a brief period.
Following the Infinite Crisis crossover event, Junior briefly joins the depleted Teen Titans roster during the weekly 52 comic book series, and is part of the wedding party for his former enemy Black Adam's marriage to Isis, where he is in charge of crowd control.
Later, Junior attempts to vouch for Black Adam's protégé, Isis' brother Osiris, who wants to join the Titans as well, but is distrusted from his connection to Black Adam.
The Marvels and Black Marvels later help fight of the demon-empowered Sabbac, now several storys high.
However, Osiris accidentally murders a supervillain, leading to the Titans being investigated for terrorist affiliations.
Osiris is eventually murdered by Sobek, a biogenerated crocodile monster who posed as the boy's friend.
After the death of Osiris, Freddy and Mary are the pallbearers of his casket at his and his sister's funeral.
His last appearance was in World War III where he fought and lost to Black Adam.
He and Mary break the amulet into four pieces, and scatter it around the world.
During Infinite Crisis, an event designed to significantly alter the status of the DC Universe, the wizard Shazam was destroyed by the Spectre who had declared a war on magic, and the Rock of Eternity destroyed, causing Captain Marvel Jr. and Mary Marvel to lose their powers a year later.
Captain Marvel is transformed into Marvel, a white-robed being who assumes Shazam's old post as caretaker of the Rock of Eternity, although he can only leave for up to 24 hours at a time.
Marvel drafts the now-powerless Freddy Freeman to undergo a quest to prove himself worthy of replacing Captain Marvel.
Each of the six gods who contributed their powers — Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury — present Freddy with a trial (similar to the Labors of Hercules), which Freddy would have to complete successfully in order to be granted with that god's particular power.
If he completes all six tasks, he will take on the name Shazam.
Zareb Babak, a demoted necromancer, serves as Freddy's guide during his trials.
At the same time, however, a dark organization known as the Council of Merlin are backing their own candidate, a Creole sorceress named Sabina.
If she wins the trials, then the power of Shazam will be lost to the Marvel Family and she will control it.
Freddy and Sabina end up competing nearly neck-and-neck for many of the trials, eventually becoming equal in power as each earn the various powers of each god.
One trial, the trial of Atlas, end prematurely when Sabina kills Atlas, and Zareb is forced to convince Apollo to take his place among the Shazam collective of gods.
The competition culminated in a large battle, with Freddy, Marvel, and the Justice League battling Sabina and an army of demons summoned by the sorcerer Merlin.
By willing to sacrifice himself to save the world, Freddy proves himself worthy of the power of Zeus, and Zareb reveals himself to be Zeus in disguise.
Freddy says the magic word "Shazam" and gains the full powers of Shazam.
Freddy has appeared in several stories set following the Trials series.
Freddy, as Shazam, appears as a supporting character in DC's 2008/2009 Final Crisis miniseries event, joining forces with a small band of superheroes (including his enemy Black Adam) to fight Darkseid and the Anti-Life Equation he has used to take over the Earth and many of its heroes.
Shazam, Black Adam, and Tawky Tawny fight an evil, possessed Mary Marvel, whose body has been possessed by the New God Desaad; she is defeated after Shazam seizes her and uses his magic lightning bolt to transform himself back to Freddy and the evil Mary Marvel back to a normal Mary Batson.
Freddy appears briefly in the concurrent "New Krypton" (2009) storyline in Superman #684 and Action Comics #873, in which he joins forces with Zatanna and a band of other magic-based superheroes to help stop the invading Kryptonians by using the magic lightning of Shazam.
In a 2009 Justice Society of America story, the wizard Shazam returns from the dead, and, angry at the state of affairs, strips Billy and Mary Batson of their powers and banishes them from the Rock of Eternity upon stating that they have failed him.
Shazam vows to come after Freddy for "stealing his name".
He does acknowledge, however, that Freddy's powers come from the gods themselves and not the wizard.
Shazam's profile is raised when he becomes part of a Justice League miniseries by James Robinson which establishes a new Justice League of America line-up.
In the second issue of Justice League: Cry for Justice (2009), Freddy Freeman appears at the Flash Museum after an attack there and on S.T.A.R. Labs in Fawcett City.
He meets up with Jay Garrick and Ray Palmer who are not sure whether he goes by Captain Marvel or Shazam, which he says to call him Freddy.
Freddy and Ray talk about their time on the Teen Titans then head to Gotham City where they meet Hal Jordan and Green Arrow, as well as declaring they want Justice.
Freddy ends up joining Hal and Ollie's group of heroes, developing a mutual attraction with Supergirl.
Freddy also saved the team from Clayface himself acting as a bomb to blow up a building.
Freddy joins Ollie and Hal's team after saving them from an explosion.
Justice League members were attacked in the Watchtower, Supergirl discovers Freddy was apparently attacking the team.
It is revealed that Prometheus impersonating him throughout the series to gain access to the JLA satellite.
The real Freddy is found by Bulleteer and Mr. Scarlet in Fawcett City, tied up with his mouth sewn shut to prevent him from saying his magic word.
Afterward his mouth is unsewn and he transforms into Shazam.
Freddy appeared in one panel of Blackest Night #8, fighting off the remaining Black Lanterns with fellow Lanterns and Earth's Heroes.
Freddy is later called to Billy and Mary's home, where he is seemingly poisoned by Mary, who had made a deal with Blaze, who wanted Freddy's powers, in exchange for restoring Mary and Billy's.
However, it is then revealed to be a set-up.
Freddy gets up and fights Blaze.
With a little help from Billy and Mary, defeats her and sends her back to hell.
Later, Freddy promises Billy and Mary that he will find a way to restore their powers.
Shortly after the incident with Blaze, Freddy travels to Philadelphia, where he finds Osiris in the process of killing a group of gunmen.
The two Marvels battle, with Osiris telling Freddy that he has to continue killing people in order to free his sister Isis from her stone prison.
Freddy eventually convinces Osiris that his sister would not approve of the bloodshed that he has caused and offers to help him find another way to save her, but Osiris instead betrays Freddy, using his abilities to summon a mystical bolt of lightning that reverts him back to his human form.
Freddy immediately attempts to transform back into Shazam, but is horrified to discover that he no longer possesses his abilities.
Osiris then departs, leaving a distraught Freddy to be frustrated over his loss.
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When Freddy's parents drowned in a storm, Freddy's maternal grandfather Jacob took him in, while Timothy was sent to live with various foster families.
As an adult, Karnes would harness the powers of the underworld and become Sabbac, one of Captain Marvel Jr.'s enemies.
The teenage Freddy Freeman, living in Midwestern Fawcett City, was shown to be an all-star student and athlete at the Binder school in Fawcett City, and a friend of Captain Marvel's alter ego Billy Batson.
One afternoon, after winning a baseball game for his school team, Freddy and his grandfather Jacob went on a fishing trip in the Fawcett Bay.
At the same time, however, Captain Marvel found himself engaged in a battle with the supervillain Captain Nazi.
As in the Fawcett origin, one of Marvel's punches knocks Captain Nazi into the lake near Grandpa Jacob's boat, and Freddy and his grandfather are attacked when they attempt to save the villain from the water, as Freddy thinks he is Captain Marvel.
Captain Marvel intervenes and rushes both injured bystanders to a hospital.
Grandpa Jacob slips into a coma after being thrown into the lake by Nazi, and Freddy is found to have a severely injured spine and a broken leg, which will prevent him from ever walking again.
After a second attack from Captain Nazi, the injured Freddy is taken to the wizard Shazam by Captain Marvel and his sister Mary Marvel, who both grant the boy the power to become Captain Marvel Jr.
However, Jacob dies, and Captain Marvel Jr. goes on a rampage against Captain Nazi until the other Marvels intervene.
Nazi and Captain Marvel Jr. would become arch-enemies, regularly pitted against one another.
Junior becomes an integral member of the Marvel Family until he draws Billy's ire by making a pass at his sister.
The resulting conflict (created essentially to write Junior out of The Power of Shazam! from issue #13 on) causes Junior to leave Fawcett City and seek refuge in New York City, where he joins the Teen Titans.
At this time, the character's name was briefly changed to CM3 (short for Captain Marvel Three, with Billy being CM1 and Mary CM2), a name he could identify himself with in dialogue without triggering his transformation.
After some time spent with the Titans, Junior returns to Fawcett (and The Power of Shazam! comic with issue #42) and makes amends with Captain Marvel.
Another superhero team, The Outsiders, found themselves in a battle against Ishmael Gregor, who had killed Timothy Barnes and stolen his Sabbac powers.
Captain Marvel Jr. arrived to help the Outsiders dispatch Sabbac, and some time later Junior would join the team for a brief period.
Following the Infinite Crisis crossover event, Junior briefly joins the depleted Teen Titans roster during the weekly 52 comic book series, and is part of the wedding party for his former enemy Black Adam's marriage to Isis, where he is in charge of crowd control.
Later, Junior attempts to vouch for Black Adam's protégé, Isis' brother Osiris, who wants to join the Titans as well, but is distrusted from his connection to Black Adam.
The Marvels and Black Marvels later help fight of the demon-empowered Sabbac, now several storys high.
However, Osiris accidentally murders a supervillain, leading to the Titans being investigated for terrorist affiliations.
Osiris is eventually murdered by Sobek, a biogenerated crocodile monster who posed as the boy's friend.
After the death of Osiris, Freddy and Mary are the pallbearers of his casket at his and his sister's funeral.
His last appearance was in World War III where he fought and lost to Black Adam.
He and Mary break the amulet into four pieces, and scatter it around the world.
During Infinite Crisis, an event designed to significantly alter the status of the DC Universe, the wizard Shazam was destroyed by the Spectre who had declared a war on magic, and the Rock of Eternity destroyed, causing Captain Marvel Jr. and Mary Marvel to lose their powers a year later.
Captain Marvel is transformed into Marvel, a white-robed being who assumes Shazam's old post as caretaker of the Rock of Eternity, although he can only leave for up to 24 hours at a time.
Marvel drafts the now-powerless Freddy Freeman to undergo a quest to prove himself worthy of replacing Captain Marvel.
Each of the six gods who contributed their powers — Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury — present Freddy with a trial (similar to the Labors of Hercules), which Freddy would have to complete successfully in order to be granted with that god's particular power.
If he completes all six tasks, he will take on the name Shazam.
Zareb Babak, a demoted necromancer, serves as Freddy's guide during his trials.
At the same time, however, a dark organization known as the Council of Merlin are backing their own candidate, a Creole sorceress named Sabina.
If she wins the trials, then the power of Shazam will be lost to the Marvel Family and she will control it.
Freddy and Sabina end up competing nearly neck-and-neck for many of the trials, eventually becoming equal in power as each earn the various powers of each god.
One trial, the trial of Atlas, end prematurely when Sabina kills Atlas, and Zareb is forced to convince Apollo to take his place among the Shazam collective of gods.
The competition culminated in a large battle, with Freddy, Marvel, and the Justice League battling Sabina and an army of demons summoned by the sorcerer Merlin.
By willing to sacrifice himself to save the world, Freddy proves himself worthy of the power of Zeus, and Zareb reveals himself to be Zeus in disguise.
Freddy says the magic word "Shazam" and gains the full powers of Shazam.
Freddy has appeared in several stories set following the Trials series.
Freddy, as Shazam, appears as a supporting character in DC's 2008/2009 Final Crisis miniseries event, joining forces with a small band of superheroes (including his enemy Black Adam) to fight Darkseid and the Anti-Life Equation he has used to take over the Earth and many of its heroes.
Shazam, Black Adam, and Tawky Tawny fight an evil, possessed Mary Marvel, whose body has been possessed by the New God Desaad; she is defeated after Shazam seizes her and uses his magic lightning bolt to transform himself back to Freddy and the evil Mary Marvel back to a normal Mary Batson.
Freddy appears briefly in the concurrent "New Krypton" (2009) storyline in Superman #684 and Action Comics #873, in which he joins forces with Zatanna and a band of other magic-based superheroes to help stop the invading Kryptonians by using the magic lightning of Shazam.
In a 2009 Justice Society of America story, the wizard Shazam returns from the dead, and, angry at the state of affairs, strips Billy and Mary Batson of their powers and banishes them from the Rock of Eternity upon stating that they have failed him.
Shazam vows to come after Freddy for "stealing his name".
He does acknowledge, however, that Freddy's powers come from the gods themselves and not the wizard.
Shazam's profile is raised when he becomes part of a Justice League miniseries by James Robinson which establishes a new Justice League of America line-up.
In the second issue of Justice League: Cry for Justice (2009), Freddy Freeman appears at the Flash Museum after an attack there and on S.T.A.R. Labs in Fawcett City.
He meets up with Jay Garrick and Ray Palmer who are not sure whether he goes by Captain Marvel or Shazam, which he says to call him Freddy.
Freddy and Ray talk about their time on the Teen Titans then head to Gotham City where they meet Hal Jordan and Green Arrow, as well as declaring they want Justice.
Freddy ends up joining Hal and Ollie's group of heroes, developing a mutual attraction with Supergirl.
Freddy also saved the team from Clayface himself acting as a bomb to blow up a building.
Freddy joins Ollie and Hal's team after saving them from an explosion.
Justice League members were attacked in the Watchtower, Supergirl discovers Freddy was apparently attacking the team.
It is revealed that Prometheus impersonating him throughout the series to gain access to the JLA satellite.
The real Freddy is found by Bulleteer and Mr. Scarlet in Fawcett City, tied up with his mouth sewn shut to prevent him from saying his magic word.
Afterward his mouth is unsewn and he transforms into Shazam.
Freddy appeared in one panel of Blackest Night #8, fighting off the remaining Black Lanterns with fellow Lanterns and Earth's Heroes.
Freddy is later called to Billy and Mary's home, where he is seemingly poisoned by Mary, who had made a deal with Blaze, who wanted Freddy's powers, in exchange for restoring Mary and Billy's.
However, it is then revealed to be a set-up.
Freddy gets up and fights Blaze.
With a little help from Billy and Mary, defeats her and sends her back to hell.
Later, Freddy promises Billy and Mary that he will find a way to restore their powers.
Shortly after the incident with Blaze, Freddy travels to Philadelphia, where he finds Osiris in the process of killing a group of gunmen.
The two Marvels battle, with Osiris telling Freddy that he has to continue killing people in order to free his sister Isis from her stone prison.
Freddy eventually convinces Osiris that his sister would not approve of the bloodshed that he has caused and offers to help him find another way to save her, but Osiris instead betrays Freddy, using his abilities to summon a mystical bolt of lightning that reverts him back to his human form.
Freddy immediately attempts to transform back into Shazam, but is horrified to discover that he no longer possesses his abilities.
Osiris then departs, leaving a distraught Freddy to be frustrated over his loss.
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DC Wiki
Captain Marvel Culture
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