Five Cessations Of Publication

(i) Fawcett Comics Captain Marvel.

(ii) Mick Anglo's Marvelman.

(iii) Warrior magazine with Alan Moore's Marvelman and V.

(iv) Eclipse Comics where Marvelman had been renamed Miracleman and Alan Moore had completed his story but Neil Gaiman had not yet completed his sequel.

(v) Marvel Comics Miracleman reprints.

Still to be completed: Gaiman's Miracleman.

Alan Moore's Miracleman is complete. Miracleman remembers being Marvelman who was an imitation of Captain Marvel who was an imitation of Superman.

Moore wrote happy endings for Superman and Swamp Thing and ambiguous endings for Miracleman, Watchmen and V who is a masked avenger. The others are superheroes. (Moore super-powered a swamp monster.)

Captain Universe

The previous post was meant to be comprehensive. However, although it followed a main line of development from Captain Marvel to Captain Marvel, it omitted, because I had forgotten, Mick Anglo's Captain Universe, the Super Marvel, who says, "Galap," has also been adapted by Alan Moore and also has a similarly named Marvel Comics counterpart although this time by coincidence.

Since Marvelman is "The Mightiest Man in the Universe," nothing about Captain Universe is original:

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an empowering word

All The Captains And Men

Another Attempted Summary

Roy Thomas re-used Captain Marvel's original name, Captain Thunder.

Mick Anglo adapted Marvelman as both Miracle Man and Captain Miracle.

Alan Moore put a dead Miracleman in Captain Britain before he adapted Marvelman, then renamed him Miracleman.

The original Captain Marvel was revived but then lost his name to a Marvel Comics character.

Since Mick Anglo had used the word "Miracle" twice, this was an appropriate name change by Moore.

Captain Marvel/Shazam says, "Shazam!"
Marvelman and Miracleman say, "Kimota!"
Miracle Man says, "Sun Disc."
Captain Miracle says, "El Karim!"

Miracleman And Captain Marvel

Although I recognize Alan Moore's Miracleman as the ultimate culmination of a superheroic lineage from Superman through the original Captain Marvel and Mick Anglo's Marvelman, I now accept the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Captain Marvel as a spectacular addition to that tradition. Like MM, CM is a human being enhanced by alien technology.

Whereas Miracleman starts in Thatcher's Britain and changes the world, this Captain Marvel starts in 1995 and pivotally affects the MCU. She is not in the same league as Miracleman but no one is, not even Doctor Manhattan who is an adaptation of Captain Atom.

Captain Marvel And Blockbuster Video

It was appropriate that Captain Marvel fell to Earth through the roof of Blockbuster Video. Apart from the fact that videos of the film will be sold in such shops:

in the Ultimates (scroll down) comics, people watch videos of superhero fights;

in the movieverse, films might be made of real superheroes like CM;

in the Ultimates, the Ultimates (a better version of the Avengers) discuss who should act as them in films and Nick Fury says that he should be played by Samuel L. Jackson.

Two levels of fiction interact with reality.

Names And Origins

The name of the Fawcett/DC Captain Marvel was appropriated by a Marvel character who, after changing both identity and gender, has become the Marvel screen equivalent of Wonder Woman with a pivotal role in the movieverse.

Some Origins

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Superman
Alan Moore's Marvelman/Miracleman
Marvel Captain Marvel
Silver Age Geeen Lantern
Silver Age Hawkman
Martian Manhunter
Silver Surfer

Other Scientific Origins
Mick Anglo's Marvelman: "atomic"
Silver Age Atom: atomic
The Flash: chemical
Spider-Man: radioactive
Firestorm: nuclear
Captain Atom: atomic/quantum
Doctor Manhattan: the intrinsic field

Mythological
Wonder Woman: Amazon
Aquaman: Atlantean
The Submariner: Atlantean
The TV Man from Atlantis: Atlantean

Supernatural
Fawcett/DC Captain Marvel: magical
Golden Age Green Lantern: magical
The Spectre: a ghost
Deadman: a ghost
Golden Age Hawkman: reincarnation

Captains Marvel

I was warned that the Captain Marvel film was feminist propaganda but it's not. I was also told that Brie Larson said that she was not making the film for 40-year old white men (or something) but this is ok if she meant not only for 40-year old white men.

It is a quadruple origin story:

CM;
Nick Fury as we know him;
the idea of, and name for, the Avengers;
the Tesseract.

SHIELD already exists with Agent Fury still with two eyes.

Are the Skrulls and the Chitauri two different species in the movieverse?

Also shown was the Shazam trailer although I missed the beginning of it. The original CM keeps failing to say his name. Is the boy who is criticizing him Billy Batson, i.e., have they split?, or someone else?

Marvel Comics had a male Captain Marvel and a Ms. Marvel who became the Captain. In the film, CM is female from the start.

Captain Marvel has two credits scenes. CM will return in the next Avengers film.

Onward, Earthlings! And every other kind of beings!