Captain Miracle

**First Appearance** | OSC Facebook, 2022

**Captain Miracle** (originally titled Captain Magic) is an open source character created by Levi Atkins and published through OSC Facebook in November 2022, based on Fawcett's golden age hero Captain Marvel. Initially intended as a parody of super-heroic archetypes, *The Big Blue Banana* became a cult figure within hours of his debut, amassing more than 46 comments over the course of three days!!!

## Background

Mild-mannered Willy Watson is granted the ability to transform into Earth's Mightiest Hero by the omnipotent sorcerer, **Shazoom**. As his name suggests, The *Whiz*ard draws power from a pantheon of mixed deities including **SH**amash**, A**res, **Z**eus, **O**din, **O**siris and **M**imir. The acronym may also be interpreted in the following manner:

* **S**trength
* **H**ealth
* **A**ptitude
* **Z**eal
* **Ox** (power of)
* **Ox** (power of another)
* **M**otivation

## Creator's Statement

*Captain Magic is the strongest, fastest and most courageous hero on the block. This ain't your Dad's superhero by a country mile. That other guy might be able to pull a solar system along by a chain, but Captain Magic can flip the multiverse with one finger. That other guy may be vulnerable to sorcery, but Captain Magic...isn't. And while that other guy can be killed by radioactive green crystals, Captain Magic eats 'em for breakfast.*

*"Just a re-color," you might be thinking, but you'd be wrong! This guy is derived from the public domain original, NOT the cheap, half-assed knock-off that was stolen, mangled and repackaged by the plaintiffs. Captain Magic is destined to bring the classic hero back where he belongs - to the people.*

## Big Thrill Comics

Following extensive research, comic historians managed to reconstruct the ashcan edition of *Thrill Comics,* featuring Captain *Magic's* first published appearance. Cover dated January 1940, the issue had an extremely limited run to establish copyright precedents. The second issue reintroduced the character with some minor coloring adjustments, along with a cast of nameless second-stringers that nobody remembers today. Willy's "family" was eventually expanded to include three muscle-bound Lieutenants, two ersatz "siblings" and a bumbling con-man "uncle." By the end of the decade, practically everyone was leaping on the bandwagon, with Magical "relatives" climbing out of the wazoo every couple of months.

## Landmark Comics

   Following an injunction by a well-known publishing juggernaut, the entire Captain Magic franchise was sold off to Landmark Magazines in 1953. Realizing how valuable the property was, Landmark quickly relaunched the character under the name Captain Miracle, as featured on the cover of *Special Edition Comics* number 1. The rest, as they say, was history: aside from a few minor costume changes, the Captain is still considered **Earth's Mightiest Hero**, and the "Miracle Family" is seeing a massive resurgence on the interwebs.

## Notes

* In this continuity, Mary is Billy's *cousin* rather than his sister.
* Eddie Freemont (Junior) has undergone years of torment due to a crippling injury sustained during his early youth.
* Uncle Dudley is an actual blood relative to Willy and Mary. Despite being a swindling huckster, he's the first one to notice Junior's mental instabilities.

## See Also

* Black Miracle
* Excelsior
* Double Devil
* Moon Maiden
* Ms. Miracle
* Captain Marvel

## External Links

* Captain Magic on OSC Facebook
* Captain Miracle on Free Universe
* Captain Magic Jr on OSC Facebook