WMG / Shazam!

Note; this page is for guesses on the current comic run, unresolved matters from earlier incarnations, and guesses regarding the franchise in general. WMGs regarding the 2019 movie have their own page.

Hoppy will be left in the world of talking animals they'll be visiting later in the run.

His Golden Age adventures took place in such a universe and he seldom interacted with the human Marvels.

The Power of Shazam doesn't cure Freddy's leg permanently because it doesn't even do so temporarily.

What it does do is give him access to a different set of workarounds; basically, he puppets his bad leg around using magic superpowers as part of his disguise, and tends to hover/fly at very low altitudes in combat. The former might actually be harder than just using a crutch - maybe it wouldn't be if all things were equal, but he received extensive physical therapy with regards to one and had to figure the other out on his own.

The red-haired kid with glasses on the museum tour in *Shazam #1* is Sivana Jr.

Self-explanatory.

DC gave up on the Captain Marvel name because Disney bought Marvel Comics.

The latter happened in 2009, the New 52 reboot in 2012. In between not much happened on the Shazam front other than one or two issues of Tiny Titans.

The revised origin story of Freddy's disability will be closer to what it originally was than might have been intended at the time Geoff Johns planned out the New 52.

Sadly, the idea of him being the survivor of a right-wing terror attack is far more current than it was back in 2012.

Somebody had to retire before the DC/Fawcett licensing agreement that led to the 1973 revival could happen.

Rumors of it were swirling around the industry as early as 1966-67 which was what led Stan Lee and his team to come up with Captain Marvel as a rush job to stake a claim on the Captain Marvel trademark. Yet it took another five years at least until issue #1 hit the racks; clearly someone high up on something other than the creative side at either DC or Fawcett held a grudge for the other company, and collaboration couldn't go through until they left the scene.