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Marvel has to publish a Captain Marvel comic at least once every two years to not lose their trademark on the name, leading to several different characters using the name as an alias
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The rights to the original Captain Marvel have been owned by DC Comics since 1972. However, trademark conflicts with Marvel have resulted in DC marketing the hero under the name, "Shazam!"
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Stan Lee generally hates teenage sidekicks, which is why there are so few in the Marvel universe. Jack Kirby felt differently and kept Bucky Barns, who became a valuable sidekick to Captain America.
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Marvel comics was printing comics with Captain America fighting nazis before America had entered WW2 thus getting them accused as war provokers.
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When Marvel was attempting to create their own independent studio, they used their own IPs (Captain America, The Avengers, Nick Fury, Black Panther ect...) as collateral. If the MCU failed, Merrill Lynch would have ended up owning these characters.
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Jonathan "Commander Riker" Frakes played Captain America for Marvel in the 1970s
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There are two Captain Marvels. One is owned by Marvel, and is in Captain Marvel. The other one is owned by DC and is in an upcoming movie Shazam.
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In the Marvel Comics Universe, the first Captain America (also named Steve Rogers) was a soldier in the Revolutionary War
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In the Marvel Universe, rather than resign as U.S. President, Richard Nixon shot himself in the head in front of Captain America (issue 175, link to panel in comments)
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Marvel created a whole series of anthropomorphic parody characters, focused on Spider Ham (aka Peter Porker), and his friends Captain AmeriCat, Hulk-Bunny, and Goose Rider.
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The Russo Brothers, directors of "Avengers: Infinity War" and "Captain America: Civil War," have been dropping in "Arrested Development" easter eggs in their Marvel films, including Tobias Fünke and the Bluth family stair car.
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Jonathan Frakes started his career as the original Avenger, working for Marvel Comics as Captain America. Frakes also went to the White House to launch the "Captain America Youth Energy Conservation Program" during the Carter administration.
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Brie Larson (Captain Marvel) used to be a pop singer in the earlier 2000's
During the golden age of comics Captain Marvel (owned by Fawcett Publications) was out selling superman. In turn DC sued Fawcetts for copy-write infringements forcing them to settle. DC then re-launched him as Shazam - source
There was an actual hindsight hero in the marvel comics, which have the powers of captain hindsight, called Hindsight Lad
Alan Menken, the composer behind Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and other Disney classics, composed the patriotic 'Star Spangled Man' from Marvel Studios' 2011 film, Captain America: The First Avenger - source
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Marvel and Toei had an agreement in the 70s that allowed for the creation of a Japanese Spider-Man and Japanese Captain America
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The quick shot of a burning piano featured in Captain Marvel is a send off tradition for fighter pilots who have perished, or “flown west,” which some say dates back to WWII.
Elvis Presley based his haircut on Captain Marvel Jr's.
Superhero films have existed since as early as the 1940s. There was a series of Captain Marvel (now Shazam) movies that were released in 1941
Fawcett Pub. created a comic called Captain Marvel but stopped making them in the 50s giving Marvel the opportunity to trademark the title. So when DC Comics licensed the original they couldn't use the name in the title, so they decided to use Captain Marvel's transformation cry, "Shazam!"
There's a Captain Marvel in D.C. comics, aka Shazam, that was created much before the one in Marvel Universe but couldn't use the name as it got trademarked by Marvel.