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The non-powered Marvel Family member Uncle Marvel gets an idea from Shazam and tricks Adam into saying 'Shazam,' reverting him to Teth-Adam. Uncle Marvel releases them while Mary battles Black Adam, enabling them to transform.Īdam does battle with the trio, known as the Marvel Family, but since all are equally invulnerable, the fight goes on and on without resolution. He then ties them up, planning to kill them later. Adam succeeds in gagging Billy and Freddy while they are talking to Shazam. Adam's attempts to take over the world cause the Marvels to seek counsel with Shazam, who tells them about Black Adam. By the time he makes it back, in 1945, Shazam has appointed three new champions to take his place: Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel Jr., and Mary Marvel. Angered by this betrayal, Shazam renames his errant champion Black Adam and-unable to revoke the powers he gave Adam-banishes him to the most distant star in the universe.īlack Adam spends the next 5,000 years flying back to Earth. Originally, the wizard Shazam grants Adam powers derived from ancient Greco-Roman deities later in the series, it was changed to ancient Egyptian deities.ĭeciding that he should rule the world, Mighty Adam overthrows and kills the pharaoh and assumes the Egyptian throne. When Teth-Adam says the magic word 'Shazam', he is transformed into Mighty Adam, a super-powered being possessing the same powers that Captain Marvel would later be granted however, Mighty Adam is soon corrupted by the vastness of his powers. This story is reprinted in DC's Shazam! #8 (1973), which is his first appearance in the Bronze Age.īlack Adam's origin, as seen in The Marvel Family #1 (1945). In The Marvel Family #1, Black Adam is an ancient Egyptian named Teth-Adam (i.e., 'Mighty Human'), who is chosen by the wizard Shazam to be his successor due to his presumed moral purity. The canon version of Black Adam appeared only once during Fawcett's initial publication run of Captain Marvel comics. 4.1 Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam!.2.1 The Power of Shazam!: revised origin.The character made his cinematic debut in 2022's DC League of Super-Pets, voiced by Dwayne Johnson, who subsequently is starring as the character in the live-action Black Adam, releasing later the same year, and set in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). In 2009, Black Adam was ranked as IGN's 16th-greatest comic book villain of all time.

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Featured roles in such comic book series as Justice Society of America (JSA), Villains United, Infinite Crisis, and 52 have elevated the character's prominence in the DC Universe. Goyer as a corrupted antihero attempting to clear his name and reputation. Since the turn of the 21st century, however, Black Adam has been redefined by DC Comics writers Jerry Ordway, Geoff Johns, and David S. Īs originally depicted, Black Adam was a corrupted, ancient Egyptian predecessor of Captain Marvel, who fought his way to modern times to challenge the hero and his Marvel Family associates.

However, Black Adam was revived as a recurring character after DC Comics first licensed and then acquired the Fawcett characters and began publishing Shazam (formerly Captain Marvel) Family stories under the title Shazam! in the 1970s. Black Adam first appeared as a one-time villain for the first issue of Fawcett Comics' The Marvel Family comic book (December 1945). Beck, the character is one of the archenemies of the superhero Captain Marvel and the nemesis of the Marvel Family.

The Courage of Mehen: immunity to despair, hopelessness, etcīlack Adam ( Teth/ Theo-Adam) is a supervillain/ antihero appearing in American comic books published by DCĬomics.

control and emission of magical lightning and thunder.The Strength of Amon: superhuman strength.The Swiftness of Horus: Superluminal speed.

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