Shazam! finally lets DC superheroes be joyous fun

3:01pm PDT - March 23rd, 2019    shazam! - The Verge

The superhero who used to be Captain Marvel is one of the first American comics heroes, created in the 1930s to compete with Superman. But DC Comics is only now giving him his first big-screen outing in Shazam!, a gleeful film about the thrill of superpowers …