WIP of the Mary Marvel interview page. Most people don’t realize that Captain Marvel (from DC, not Marvel) and Mary Marvel are public domain characters. But there is a difference between a copyright and a trademark, and I think DC still owns the trademark. So even though I can use Mary Marvel as a character, I can’t put Mary Marvel (or the word Shazam) on the cover of a printed comic. Or something like that. I’m not a copyright lawyer.
So we have the All-American Goody Two Shoes (Miss Victory), we have the Party Girl (Phantom Lady). Now we have the Naive Youngster, Mary Marvel. She is also one of the most powerful superheroines living in the house, combined with being young and innocent. I think for legal purposes I should write a disclaimer that even though Mary Batson is a thirteen-year-old, when she says her magic word her body is definitely that of a 21-ish year old, just in case there are some NSFW scenes. That will cover me, right? I don’t know I’m not a porn lawyer either.