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Zergrinch wrote: B14 and B15 are Lieutenant and Sergeant Marvel. I am unfamiliar with both; one would expect Captain Marvel Jr. to be the more familiar sidekick. >

They're obviously meant to be Freddy and Mary, or vv.

The lower ranks actually make more sense than "Mary Marvel" ever did. I've seen it explained that she flubbed it when she introduced herself, "Hi, I'm Mary B... eh... Marvel" but that was over half a century after she first appeared.

But because I have this incessant need to show off: the name Lieutenant Marvel is not new. On some of his many trips, Billy Batson encountered three youngsters also named Billy Batson: Fat Billy in Brooklyn, Hill Billy in Tennessee, and Tall Billy in Texas. Through events I can't recall (and probably nobody bothered to work out) they got SHAZAM powers. They became the Lieutenant Marvels. Sort of a backup crew Billy called on occasionally, especially when dealing with the Monster Society of Evil.