EXCLUSIVE--The REAL Reason DC Changed His Name From Captain Marvel!!

Earth-S was really quite adorable.

There are a couple of new guests at Ma Potter's boarding house, and I think that maybe, just maybe, they're criminals. And the boss really, really doesn't like a certain hero...

Well, poor Ma Potter makes some fallacious inferences from what she's witnessed, and tells Pa...

Pa doesn't believe her, until he heads out on some errands, and sees Freddy Freeman...

And now it's time for the residents to play that classic children's game Telephone:

Oh, Earth-S, I just want to hug you so much....

You have to admit, that is some pretty impressive spreading of misinformation, especially when you consider that it was pre-internet!!

Eventually word reaches the media...

And when Capt errr The Big Red Cheese is out on patrol:

Doomsday?!?!?

Even Sivana is taken in by the somewhat insane idea:

So you see, that's why DC decided to change the big guy's name to SHAZAM--they were really just trying to save the entire universe! They were protecting us!!

Oh, you probably want to know how this silly situation was resolved, don't you? Well, let's go back to our original thieves:

Wait...what?!?

D'oh!!

Oh, Earth-S....

From SHAZAM! #7 (1973)