{"id":4059,"date":"2006-11-12T22:10:42","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T03:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2013-08-28T14:54:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T18:54:39","slug":"you-know-what-shazam-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2006\/11\/you-know-what-shazam-means\/","title":{"rendered":"You know what \"SHAZAM\" means?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Batson is granted mystical powers by the Wizard Shazam whenever he speaks his mentor's name, becoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/dcdkc2s.php\">Captain Marvel<\/a>, the World's Mightiest Mortal. You know what those powers are, right?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the wisdom of <b>S<\/b>olomon<\/li>\n<li>the strength of <b>H<\/b>ercules<\/li>\n<li>the stamina of <b>A<\/b>tlas<\/li>\n<li>the power of <b>Z<\/b>eus<\/li>\n<li>the courage of <b>A<\/b>chilles<\/li>\n<li>the speed of <b>M<\/b>ercury<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more-->But Billy wasn't Shazam's first champion - back in ancient Egypt, he empowered Teth Adam (today known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/dcdjlr4ba.php\">Black Adam<\/a>) by similarly calling his name. At the time of the character's creation, in the mid '40s, no one stopped to think that it was weird for an ancient Egyptian to call upon Greek and Roman figures. That's been rectified now - been done twice, in fact, with slightly different combos of gods each time. The pre-Crisis version, from <i>Shazam!<\/i> #28, was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the stamina of <b>S<\/b>hu<\/li>\n<li>the strength of <b>H<\/b>ershef<\/li>\n<li>the power of <b>A<\/b>mon<\/li>\n<li>the wisdom of <b>Z<\/b>ehuti (another name for Thoth)<\/li>\n<li>the speed of <b>A<\/b>npu<\/li>\n<li>the courage of <b>M<\/b>enthu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then, in 1995's <i>Power of Shazam!<\/i> #10, it was revealed as: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the stamina of <b>S<\/b>hu<\/li>\n<li>the swiftness of <b>H<\/b>eru<\/li>\n<li>the strength of <b>A<\/b>mon<\/li>\n<li>the wisdom of <b>Z<\/b>ehuti<\/li>\n<li>the power of <b>A<\/b>ton<\/li>\n<li>the courage of <b>M<\/b>ehen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Crisis<\/i> changed a lot of things, but that's a minor one, by comparison. 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You know what those powers are, right? the wisdom of Solomon the strength of Hercules the stamina &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2006\/11\/you-know-what-shazam-means\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,27,37],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-dc","category-lists","tag-shazam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4063,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions\/4063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}