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Warning ! spoiler forShazam ! # 1 !
InDC Comics , Shazam!aka Billy Batson is a human dynamo superhero thatcan go toe - to - toe with Black Adamor even the Man of Steel himself , Superman , any day , and now he needs to literally travel to hell to get his failing powers back ! answer it to say , “ Highway to Hell ” would be a hugely appropriate root song for Billy ’s latest journey .
Shown at the fanny - end of the very first issue of theShazam!four issue limited series by Tim Sheridan and Clayton Henry , Billy Batson has been having a hard fourth dimension controlling and utilizing his top executive with any kind of consistency as of late , leading to a crestfallen hero who only does n’t empathize what ’s happening to him . Currently enrolled inTeen Titans Academyto further improve his skills as a hero , Billy is doing his best to help his fellow confrere and friends around him , all the while stupefy more and more frustrated at his strange predicament .
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bring out that one of his foster syndicate members , Freddy , has require a turn for the bad with his “ enfeeble neurological disorderliness ” , Billy is disordered over the fact that he ca n’t share the index of Shazam ! like he normally does to stave in off Freddy ’s sickness . Usually giving him the “ Stamina of Atlas ” , Billy agnize that he needs to do something drasticto get his powers back , or danger losing not only his good friend , but the intact idea of being a superhero .
Eavesdropping on a get together between the magically inclined magician known as Doctor Fate , and the Titans that oversee the Academy such as Nightwing , Starfire and Beast Boy , Billy overhears that a potential crisis - level event is brewing across the DC world , make odd happenings occur and unaccountable events take stead . Telling theTitansthat the Rock of Eternity , or the root of Shazam ! ’s powers , has been “ displaced ” to the Underrealm , or hell as it ’s referred to justly afterwards , Fate let out that , “ … unless eternity is truly restored , Shazam … Billy … and those with whom he shares power will certainly remain affected , ” giving Billy the information and inducement he ask to calculate out how toreclaim his power .
Met by a fellow Teen Titans Academy student and “ Ms. Raven ’s star pupil ” , Dane , directly afterwards , Billy is traumatize to find out that Dane can quite literally spread a portal to hell . have it off full well that this trip would be tough for even his alter self to handle , Billy is compulsive to see his journey through irrespective , and will no doubt do whatever he has to in rules of order to serve Freddy , restore his power full , and of course , give to full being the hero known as Shazam ! once again .
So even thoughShazam ! ’s powersaren’t precisely what they used to be , the power to turn into Billy ’s alter egotism has become a wildcard that he ca n’t exactly rely on but will need to utilize at some tip to successfully rectify what ’s rightfully his . Shazam!might be boxed out of being the hero he knows he can be at the instant , but if Billy gets his way , it ’s a problem that wo n’t be sticking around for long .
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