It is my sad duty to report as
an old man with nothing left to cling to that not a single one of my
graduate students is familiar with Billy Batson (pictured earlier on the "blog" without an identifying caption,
unthinkingly accepting a soda fountain treat from his disguised nemesis Dr. Sivana) OR his alter ego
Captain Marvel. I explained that when young Billy Batson said the magic word (
"Shazam," of which they had also not heard) the magic lightning struck and he was transformed into the World's Mightiest Mortal. "He turns into a MAN?" one of them blurted. In all her years of graduate school she had never heard something so preposterous.