Name: Captain Marvel, Jr.
Universe: Earth-S
Alter Ego: Freddie Freeman
Occupation: Newsdealer
Marital Status: Single
Group Affiliation: The Marvel Family
Base of Operations: Fawcett City
Known Relatives: David and Rebecca Freeman (parents, deceased), Christopher (brother, semi-deceased), Grandfather Freeman (deceased), Grandfather Troop (deceased)
Height: 5 ft. 10 in.
Weight: 164 lbs.
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Blue
First Appearance: Whiz Comics #25

History:
When his mother and fisherman father were accidentally killed during a hurrican, Freddy Freeman went to live with his fraternal grandfather, while his younger brother, Christopher, was taken in by their maternal grandfather, Grandpa Troop.

Years later, while Freddy and his grandpa were fishing in a local bay, they witnessed a weirdly garbed man falling from the sky into the placid waters. Unknown to the Freemans, this was the villainous Captain Nazi, who had just been prevented from destroying an experimental fighter plane by the heroic Captain Marvel.

When Grandpa Freeman tried to help Captain Nazi into their small boat, Nazi murdered him with a single blow. Hysterical, Freddy attacked Nazi with an oar, which Nazi turned back against him, knocking the boy into the water and leaving him for dead as Nazi made good his escape in the stolen boat.

Spotting the unconscious boy in the water, Captain Marvel flew him to a nearby hospital where doctors told Marvel the boy wasn't expected to live out the night. Calling down his magic lightning, Captain Marvel was transformed back to teenaged Billy Batson, who sneaked the dying Freddy out of the hospital and carried him to the abandoned subway tunnel Billy himself had entered months before. Traveling the same mysterious route, Billy arrived in the chambers of the ancient wizard Shazam, who had given Billy his Captain Marvel powers.

Summoning the spirit of the ancient wizard, Billy asked him to save Freddy's life. Shazam said he could not change what had already occurred, but that Billy could transfer some of his own super-power to Freddy merely by speaking the wizard's name. Shouting "Shazam!" Billy was transformed once more into Captain Marvel. The sound of the magic lightning awakened the dying Freddy, who called his hero by name and was suddenly transformed by a second bolt of magic lightning into a healthy young man clad in a costume identical to Captain Marvel's own, save for the colors.

His life saved by the sudden influx of power, Freddy listened as Cap explained that Freddy was now Captain Marvel Jr. and that he could summon power equal to Cap's own merely by speaking his hero's name. The only reminder of Captain Nazi's attempt on his life was a lame leg that Freddy would never be able to heal.

For months, Captain Marvel Jr. battled evil alone and beside the other members of the Marvel Family, until he was trapped along with his closest friends and companions in a globe of Suspendium, which put him into suspended animation for decades.

Freed from the Suspendium at long last, Freddy Freeman has opened his own newsstand and continues to fight crime as Captain Marvel Jr.

Powers:
By shouting the name of his idol, Captain Marvel, Freddy Freeman is transformed by a bolt of enchanted lightning into a young super-hero possessed of the powers of six legendary Elders. From Solomon, he gains wisdom; from Hercules, super-strength; from Atlas, stamina; from Zeus, power; from Achilles, courage; and from Mercury, super-speed. To transform himself back to Freddy Freeman, he has only to speak the name again to summon a second bolt of mystic lightning. Ironically, this makes Captain Marvel Jr. the only known super-hero incapable of speaking his own name, since that would summon the lightning that changes him back into Freddy.

Captain Marvel Jr. is a superb athlete and a master of hand-to-hand combat, having learned everything he could from Captain Marvel.