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Billy Batson and SHAZAM! Return in a New 4-Issue Mini-Series This Summer!

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Lightning keeps striking as Captain Marvel, er, SHAZAM! returns in a new 4-issue mini-series this July! Written by Teen Titans Academy writer, Tim Sheridan, and drawn by Clayton Henry -- the four issue series takes Billy on a wild adventure without help from a missing Wizard or his adopted family (who can't change into their own Shazams)! Can anyone help Billy?!? And is he going through puberty?!? All will be revealed, we hope! Here's the main trade dress cover... SHAZAM! #1 (2021) -Cover A by Clayton Henry plus there will be two variant covers... the first by Gary Frank (the New 52 Shazam's original artist and costume designer)... SHAZAM! #1 (2021) - Cover B by Gary Frank ...as well as a third cover by Steve Lieber... SHAZAM! #1 (2021) - Cover C by Steve Lieber Keep checking back as the official solicitation becomes available! Sha-Boom!

THE POWER OF SHAZAM! Book 2 Hardcover Back on The Schedule! Happy Holidays 2021!

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Holy Moley, live bait is back in season as the Book 2 hardcover of The Power of Shazam! is back on the schedule! After the first volume of The Power of Shazam! rolled out packaging up Jerry Ordway's beautifully painted graphic novel from 1992, the first twelve issues of The Power of Shazam! comic book series and the Ordway/Mike Parobeck story from Superman/Batman Magazine, expectations were high that the second volume would be released soon after! In fact, the second volume's cover was released on various websites with solicitation text and a release date of April 20, 2021. For reasons unknown, it wasn't officially solicited by DC Comics and went into publishing limbo. However, it has resurfaced on Amazon  and other sites with a December 28, 2021 release date although it has not yet been solicited by DC Comics at this time. Here's the original solicitation: Painted cover by Jerry Ordway THE POWER OF SHAZAM! BOOK 2: THE WORM TURNS A word is spoken, lightning strikes, and

Man of Miracles - Action Figure - McFarlane Toys (2006)

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By Walt Grogan The Marvel Family, and particularly, Captain Marvel, produced some offshoots (sometimes unwittingly) -- one of which was Marvelman , who begot Miracleman, and who begot Man of Miracles. Man of Miracles is a character in Todd McFarlane's Spawn Universe. Man of Miracles is loosely based on the Miracleman character created by Alan Moore and Garry Leach (and shares the secret identity name of Mike Moran). Man of Miracles debuted in Spawn #150. Although it was marketed as an action figure, the Man of Miracles is best described as a painted statue with a few points of articulation. The is limited neck movement, his wrists move and there is movement at the waist and that's it. Man of Miracles - McFarlane Toys  - (2006) Solicitation Man of Miracles - McFarlane Toys  - Solicitation Image (2006) Man of Miracles - McFarlane Toys  - Solicitation Image (2006) Man of Miracles - McFarlane Toys  - Solicitation Image (2006) The following solicitation is from the Man of Miracles