I love how this is supposed to take place in Siam (present day Thailand), and later the location is near Khandapur in India, but the attributes of Captain Marvel are described as those of Greek gods and demigods (10:05). It's like the writers just figured, "Eh, it's not North America, and it's not western Europe. So it's all the same." It's also adorable how the script of that ancient language at 10:06 is actually stylized English letters. 🤣

I remember seeing this at least 50 or 60 years ago. I'm 80 now....remembering Whitey as one of the the Dead End Kids in the 40's with Slip and Satch. For that era these were great special effects.

I love Billy's "Golly, gee-whiz" voice and intonation.

The one, true, real Captain Marvel is one of the coolest superheroes ever.

@louiscario6798

Жыл бұрын

Captain Marvel is no Bibleman!

@johnnyskinwalker4095

Жыл бұрын

his comics would outsell Superman!

@chrisorrill7183

Жыл бұрын

@Johnny Skinwalker Actually that is why DC sued Fawcett. But they did not want to admit it so they used copyright infringement as an excuse.

@johnnyskinwalker4095

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisorrill7183 that is why they do not deserve this character lol

@13thwho

Жыл бұрын

@@johnnyskinwalker4095 Very true. In the 1940s, “Superman” was published bi-monthly, while “Captain Marvel Adventures” appeared bi-weekly, every other Friday. The covers even had a blurb stating “Largest Circulation of Any Comic Magazine”.

saw it back in 1963 i was 10 !! old black and white 12inch tv . also remember steve reves as superman, ah those were the days!

@garfieldsmith332

Жыл бұрын

Steve Reeves IS Superman.

@stevemarrs9329

22 күн бұрын

That was George Reeves. Steve Reeves played in the Hercules movies.

I first saw this at Chicago Comic-Con back in the 70's and was blown away by this serial. Love Tom Tyler as Captain Marvel. One of the best of the serials of that day, thanks for sharing such a treasure.

@elvinposey5251

Жыл бұрын

he played the mummy in one of the best Universal Mummy movies.

@ssherrierable

10 ай бұрын

What are serials?

I had to look up how they pulled off the flying effect - extremely clever practical effect.

@MATMANPRO

Жыл бұрын

where did you find it, thanks.

@code-chimp

Жыл бұрын

@@MATMANPRO Wikipedia had the details en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Captain_Marvel

They should release this as a series on the big screen! draw real movie fans and kids back to movies!

@ssherrierable

10 ай бұрын

Nah kids today have ant man they don’t need this 😂

This makes sense now. The scorpion king, was played by the Rock, then he played Black Adam , seems all tied in lol

Despite my criticisms, I enjoyed this silly flick. Thanks for putting it together, and for posting it!

One of the best serials ever made! The other was Spy Smasher! Both Fawcett heroes!

they filmed better flying shots than the original superman.... have to admit their actor and his stunt doubles were pretty darn athletic.. that backflip kick he did was awesome.

@alexnova2137

Жыл бұрын

Better flying shots than Superman 4 in the 80s

@tnbn55

Жыл бұрын

Well, even comics Superman wasn't flying until after Shazam became popular. 😏

@richardwilliams5387

Жыл бұрын

The original Superman had better take offs and landings. Although granted, these flying shots were great for their time.

@kenttm42

Жыл бұрын

​@@cambridge286 Actually, Superman originally did not fly, but could leap an eighth of a mile. When the Fleisher brothers were commissioned to produce the Superman cartoons, they found the constant leaping would be too labor intensive to animate. So they asked if they could show Superman flying instead to expedite the illustrations. DC comics agreed, and thus Superman gained the power of flight ever after.

@DigitAnimations

Жыл бұрын

Was it better because it was in black and white, or was it just better? I feel like it was just better.

In my head cannon this Shazam/Captain Marvel is Mentor from the 70s TV show. And I think he passed the torch on to a younger man.

I remember going to my local cinema every Saturday morning, Shazam was one of the main stories featured in weekly episodes.

Billy was at the correct age to help the story along. A sort of Jimmy Olsen who can be there but not necessarily take part. Very well done serial. Far better than today.

the only Shazam I saw was the cheesy Saturday Morning show in the 70's but this is fantastic! I love old classic film noir action sci fi movies and this is awesome! very good special effects. great story! I found another one before and I watch it all the time. a must see!

I feel like a kid again, watching this. Thanks for this.

Why does this look better than that 70's version I grew up with?

Tom Tyler was fantastic as Captain Marvel in these cliffhangers. Also check out him starring in the serial "The Phantom"

Great production values. So nice to see these well produced episodes again.

Billy Batson IS Captain Marvel. This serial has been released on blu-ray and it is excellent. Over 80 years old and this version far exceeds the crap Marvel put out.

My God Billy must have been slap jacked 10 times in this movie. I guess each time Billy transforms into Captain Marvel the concussions magically go away.

some of those flying scenes are better than the CW ones.

I love Shazam since I was an 80s kid👍🏻 ⚡ great character. I'm about to see the movie.

This is better than that Stupid Movie with Zachary Levi.

Great work! A true treat to watch!!!! :)

John Davidson (Tal Chotali) steals every scene he is in. The special effects are fantastic for 1941. They changed the origin from the comic book, in which Billy Batson was an orphan who earned money selling newspapers and encountered SHAZAM in the subway.

1:37:28 -- Wow, she sure gets knocked unconscious easily. He pushes her, she bumps into the wall, and she's out like a light.

Thanks for sharing it! I always enjoy watching Great Old Movies though. 👍👌👏 An of course, I'm a subscriber! Thanks Again Though.

muy bueno! esta mejor que la pelicula actual!

The acting and production budget is top notch compared to some of the shit I see in 2023

GREAT quality. Thank you!

I first saw this at the 'Wycliffe' cinema, Moss Side, Manchester (UK, of course). They also showed 'King of the Rocket Men' and the very early 'Batman' serials at the Saturday Matinée. I think it cost 3d in the currency of the time. Somewhere around 5¢.

Doctor Bentley! "Nice read, Velma." I was surprised, I thought it would turn out to be Betty.

Some of the effects are truly impressive for the time! And Billy Batson is a '40s era podcaster? =^[.]^=

The stuntmen sure earned their money

The live-action Filmation series, in COLOR, no less, which starred Michael Gray alongside Jackson Bostwick, and later alongside John Davey, with Les Tremayne as "Mentor," remained the best interpretation of what had by then become DC Comics characters, for my money.

Awesome! Thank you. Many happy memories.

Dr Scorpion properly is the most under power villain but yet he is somewhere scary because he could be anyone of us and smart. I watch this movie all the way to the end thx to him ;)

Awesome!! Thank you !!! Republic pictures!!

3-23-23 my lan lord was A FAN OF CAPTAIN Marvel, I had bought A reprint of the first captain marvel comic book,my landlord was Fan of captain marvel, my landlord had died A few years ago, I had laid the comic book on my former landlord’s front porch stairs so his spirit & the pets he had buried on his property spirits.

The only problem I see is that some one bright idea turned a good movie into a comedy which was never meant to be even by todays standard.

Muchas gracias por esta magnifica pelicula del verdadero Capitan Marvel Shazam, me hizo recordar mi linda niñez,que Dios los bendiga,atte Santiago Torrez V.

My only problem with this is the bolt on his shirt. Why does it look like that? Otherwise, the whole thing is amazing even the flying.

It's much more fun to watch with the cliff-hangers in place!

So this is where the Mejahil from the Mummy franchise was inspired from.

Fantastic production values. Captain Marvel Jr was Elvis Presley's favourite super hero too, it was nice to see the origin story. ⚡👌✌

Thank you sharing. Love it. This sure brings back many good memories for me….going to the movie theaters and watching old black and white series on tv. The cars are vintage 1930’s/40’s, love the coupes/sedans, and dig those convertibles. Today’s cars look like plastic throw arounds, same squarish style type no matter what brand name it is, and lacking in character appeal, let alone imagination, basically unable to distinguish one from the other. I’ll take the older cars with character designs anytime. 👍🙏🏼❤️

Hello, I first posted this video when the fan-edit was made in 2018. For a long time thereafter, it averaged less than 100 hits per day, but I've noticed that there's been a spike in hits over the last month or so. Last month, in early March, the number of hits began to go up quickly, peaking on March 31st at over 23,000 hits on that day alone. The hits have dropped since then to around 7,000 hits on April 2, and if the trend continues should be back to normal in a few more days. So what happened in March? Why the sudden spike to over 23,000 hits per day? In other words, how did you hear about this video? Were you just randomly searching Google or KZread for videos about Shazam or Captain Marvel, or did you see a link to the video on a specific website? I'd like to know. Thanks, and thanks for watching. Fan-editor Billy thanks you as well.

@chrisrodney79

Жыл бұрын

Maybe it's because of the interest in the Shazam movie sequel.

@cjh5801

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisrodney79 You may be right. There wasn't such a spike when the first movie came out in 2019, but this video hadn't been up for very long at that point, so maybe it just wasn't high enough up on the search engines at the time to gain any attention. Thanks for the reply.

@dennisswaim8210

Жыл бұрын

It popped up as a suggested video for me on U tube. Please do more of these, all of the serials from the 30s thru the 50s were great fun.

@cjh5801

Жыл бұрын

@@dennisswaim8210 Thanks.

When people knew what was real and what was not!!!!

Shazam spraying machine gun, that's badass 😉

@felipehernandez-pedroza8288

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, he went full Rambo on those Muslim. 😄😄😄

Those two films that starred Zachary Levi as DC's Captain Marvel were BOTH for the BIRDS!

Genau 👍👍👍👍👍 Als Kind liebte ich die kurze Fernsehserue ❤❤❤❤❤

How'd they do those flying sequences! Not the blue screen ones, or however, but flying over the hills, the road, you see his shadow. That is so neat

I remember watching flash Gordon on tv 1977 Is actually is very similar to that show

Thanks I really enjoyed

Fantastic!

Remind me of the old Superman movie’s awesome.

This Captain Marvel is better to watch than the new Shazam and new Captain Marvel movies put together.

The 1 guy reminds me of the Capt in King Kong. 1933

Excellent.

Why is this so damn cool?

A chair? He got knocked down by a CHAIR? And then shocked by... LIGHTNING? What the hell?

Best serial ever

Yeah it's true this Shazam or it's true name captain marvel is great to watch especially the flying 😂😂

Billy Batson’s head should have plenty of knots 😅😂

Very good, CAPTAIN MARVEL!!

It's Billy and Betty and Whitey! - Dialogue that tragically wouldn't be allowed today.

I like that the henchmen encounter a bulletproof, super strong obstacle and in the next meeting with the evil mastermind they don't think to mention it!

I bet if KZread existed at the time, someone would post: "The Comics is better".

I liked John Davidson as the turbaned Tal Chotali.

Does not make sense that electricity would knock Captain Marvel out. If anything it would transform him back to Billy. But this a great live action portrayal of the Shazam comic. Really enjoyed it.

Very good video👋 👍

One Of The Best ! Iconic Movie Serials Of All Time And Great Actors !

Still better than anything made by Warner and their soulless producers and directors.

To think that in The Movie Serials The Billy Batson is a grown up but I guess it was to make easier access for a # of reasons like so that he could drive an airplane and yell Shazam! to save himself should the plane give out like it does and to also have easier access to transport himself in any vehicle and w/o having to have any grown up to do so.

Love This! I am all about old school and camp in my superheroes! Ever since George Miller re-envisioned Batman, for me it's all been down hill. Reboots, rewrites, reimagining with all the dark and brooding characters facing inner demons. Hooey! Give me fun, adventurous, escapism every time! I'll take Adam West over Christian Bale ANY day. Not that I hate the newer stuff, it's ok. I just prefer the older stuff! Cheers!

@thenoirknight5729

3 жыл бұрын

Do you mean Frank Miller? I do wish aswell that Post-Crisis DC didn't take so much from TDKR for the main Batman

@coolnegative

3 жыл бұрын

@@thenoirknight5729 yes. Frank is what I meant. The older I get the more I will mix names up. I once called my favorite doctor who actor Peter Baker instead of Tom Baker 🤣. My prime comic book/cartoon stage was mid 70s to mid 80s. To me, that was the true golden age. After that it just kinda became like movies now......borrowing from the past or "re-imagining" origin stories or placing them in alternate realities. I want, pure, fun escapism. Good is good, bad is bad. I've had all of the "real" world i can stomach. I don't need my entertainment to be "dark and gritty" I have enough of that in my day to day. Anyway, sorry for the rant, thanx for the reply! Blessings my friend!

@thenoirknight5729

3 жыл бұрын

@@coolnegative Ha, cool. My favorite Doctor is actually David Tennant 👍. What would you say is one of your favorite pieces of "escapism" DC media?

@coolnegative

3 жыл бұрын

@@thenoirknight5729 Tennant is definitely my favorite "new" Doctor. I honestly don't equate classic Who with "new" Who. To me, they are more like 2 sides of the same coin. My favorite DC escapism (currently) is actually the 1966 Batman and the old 70s cartoons like SuperFriends. I know its cheesy and childish, but I can just ignore all my troubles for about 23 minutes. All my old comics and digests are all boxed away somewhere, and honestly, I just don't have money to buy ecomics. I will download some really old public domain stuff, but not too much appeals to me although there are some Plastic Man that are Public Domain, but not a lot else. How about you? What do you reach for when you need to tune it all out for awhile?

@thenoirknight5729

3 жыл бұрын

@@coolnegative For me? I just kinda do what I enjoy with whatever that may be. I might play one of my favorite videogames, watch some of my favorite episodes from a cartoon/show, watch a favorite movie ect. Just whatever I feel like is right for the moment I suppose One of my favorite pieces of DC escapism is probably Batman + Batman: The Movie and Fliesher's Superman

lol Around 31:20 the bad guys are about to explain how this dangerous blade setup works and one says. " Wait I will show you." This is fairly dark even for back then but at least he demonstrates the cutting device on a chair and not a person.

eu sou muito fã do capitão marvel adoro desde do gibi da marvel

To Clark Holloway, I hope you don't mind that I shortened this video down to 35 minutes showing only the Captain Marvel scenes. Here is a link to it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eJln19uKfs3Ih9I.html

Incrível as cenas de voo do cap. Marvel para a época

Really good print

As the bad guys follow the good guys at 56.03 see the traffic cop step into the scene, obviously there to keep the scene clear . oops.

I like the way the lightning-bolt effect was added to the transformation sequence. It was sadly missing from the serial.

@chrisorrill7183

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget they did not have the same technical equipment for special effects like we have today. The way I look at it, this is just a stepping stone to the special effects we have today

@13thwho

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisorrill7183 True, but they could have had Billy or Cap say ‘Shazam!”, then show a lightning bolt in the sky, followed by the smoke. In the original Fawcett comics, they never showed the lightning bolt actually striking Billy; just the drawing of one.

This was waaaaaaay better than the current Shazam movies!

@mikebrown6573

Жыл бұрын

Although yes it is - almost anything is better than the Shazam and ALL DC/Warner movies!!!!

@randychristopherchalmers1948

Жыл бұрын

Indeed

@rjsledz

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@kevingonzales5149

Жыл бұрын

Nope!

@gulamambiakhamaly6919

Жыл бұрын

Shazam 8/10 Shazam fury of the Gods 5/10 Shazam origin 7.9/10

It was campy, but it was fun! A great old timey movie!

Saludos desde Venezuela colócala en español esa película es un clasico

@capitaltrading24

Жыл бұрын

Deje la pereza y aprenda Inglés.

@joseruiz-ub3ts

Жыл бұрын

@@capitaltrading24 Muy directa y fácil su respuesta pero usted se debe a sus seguidores y somos de diferentes idiomas sr.

Lieutenant:= Left an Ant

The actual title is The Adventures Of Captain Marvel.. Shazam was the elder that gives Billy Batson the power to change to Captain Marvel..The corny Shazam of today is a rip-off of the Wings Comics Captain Marvel comic books and the 1941 serial you see here. Flying effects way ahead of their time..Yes, it would be nice to see it on the big screen.

Zachary Levi, you should have watched this version, and the TV 70s show , shazam was serious in both.

How can this one be so good, and the 70s one be so lame?

This is a better version than Doofus Zachary Levi's "Shazam". "Captain Marvel" at the time of the serial was more popular than Superman. I always thought DC screwed up the Re-Branding of Captain Marvel, in the 1990s, the character was finally getting some momentum after Mark Waid and Alex Ross "Kingdom Come" showing Captain Marvel as the one true rival of Superman- the classic splash page of grinning Captain Marvel standing over prostrate Superman. DC won the copyright against Fawcett and they threw in the towel selling off Captain Marvel to DC, who couldn't use the name "Captain Marvel" on the comics due to Marvel Comics trademark of the name, so used Wizard's name for the covers instead, along with that and cheesy Saturday Morning TV show , "Shazam" became the de-facto name of Captain Marvel. DC was not going to get the name "Marvel" back on the cover, in the 1980s they wanted to re-boot the character as "Captain Thunder" (which was Fawcett's original name- hence the Thunderbolt symbol- but seemed another company was using the name so last minute change to "Captain Marvel" ) but "Crisis on Infinite Earths" cancelled the plan. Captain Thunder was revived during the "Flashpoint" saga and there was a plan to finally Re-Boot the entire "Shazam" line-up as "Captain Thunder" but apparently, DC nixed the idea, gave-up and decided to take easy route and name him "Shazam" which was stupid and lazy. Could've gone back to the roots of the original, a young boy Billy Batson who is given the power of a God by Shazam and in his naive innocence calls himself "Captain Thunder"

yes shazam 1940-1950 s years . return .

I was shocked when I heard that they were calling him Shazam. Wouldn't Billy turn into Cap or back to himself each time he would introduce himself.

@DigitAnimations

Жыл бұрын

you would think. Also wouldn't it make more sense for shazam to say "billy!" ti turn back to billy and not just "shazam" again?

@chrisorrill7183

Жыл бұрын

@Dig it Animations The whole point in the original serial, comic book, and TV series was to have a magic word to transform from one form to another. It is like when a magician says abracadabra or hocus pocus.

@jamesoneill5070

Жыл бұрын

​@@DigitAnimationsShazam was a magic word invoking the spirits of Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury hence SHAZAM so Billy just wouldn't work.

@DigitAnimations

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesoneill5070 B for batman. I for itchy (from dick tracy) L for luke skywalker. L again for luigi (from mario) And lastly Y for yoda who is the greatest of all.

The Scorpion sounded nothing like who he really turned out to be

Good special effects for 1941.

Tom Tyler also played The Phantom.

Este Shazam,está melhor doque os dois de hoje 😂😂😂 eu gosto ,muito da DC e Marvel , porem ,está ,fazendo mau os filmes 😊

just good stuff. pass the pop corn.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 isso que é filme 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻