Hey folks, Harry here... I'm seeing some comic dullards that don't know much about BLACK ADAM acting like Geoff Johns radically changed BLACK ADAM - but if you go all the way back in time to 1945 when he debuted in MARVEL FAMILY COMICS #1 then you'd know that when the Wizard SHAZAM made Teth Adam into MIGHTY ADAM, who would then later become BLACK ADAM - he was the most worthy and good human on the planet. BLACK ADAM has always been a good man that fell from grace, who got carried away with his quest for power.
Also, when BLACK ADAM says SHAZAM and the magic lightning bolt strikes him, he's not getting Captain Marvel's powers... in fact, it's a completely different set of GODS that Black Adam is powered by... the EGYPTIAN Gods! The current iteration of Black Adam that is featured in DC's brand will most likely be the exact version of the character we'll probably see occur. SHAZAM has been in development with The Rock cast as BLACK ADAM for about 9 years now. And apparently they've just decided to do this BLACK ADAM movie too - there's no real sense of talent assigned to any of this. No directors, though I'd kill to see Kerry Conran do CAPTAIN MARVEL - with a Paul Dini script! But that's just because I believe in perfection.
There's no date for release of this stuff - and perhaps now we're back at the starting blocks. Which is probably for the best. It's a damn shame Paul Dini isn't writing this stuff. It'd be phenomenal.
My Father is a huge fan of the Golden Age Fawcett Comics version of the entire MARVEL FAMILY Saga - and so I was raised to worship CC BECK, the creator of this particular verse, that DC fucking stole. The idea of CAPTAIN MARVEL being a rip-off of SUPERMAN and that a court sided with DC has always pissed me off. Captain Marvel was bigger than Superman in that era. Because of just how much pure zany fun that the Marvel Family books had.
A few years back, I scored a real piece of amazing memoribilia from that verse. What you see below is a Sword that CC BECK had made to hang over his Art Desk, from which he drew the original stories - and conceived of the entire magical realm. He told Milton Caniff that the sword belonged to the Wizard SHAZAM and was responsible for turning the Seven Deadly Sins to Stone. The sword never appeared in the comics, but is made of art paper and balsa wood - and is illustrated and signed by the hand of CC BECK himself. Apparently, the sword was always under the robes of Shazam!
These two movies better play with the absurd and childlike wonder that CC BECK played. If this is anything other than a surrealistic carnival for the senses - they've screwed up.
Keep it cool,
Harry
