Comic Title: Shazam:The New Beginning #3
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: June 1987
On Sale Date: March 19, 1987 Newsstand Date March 19, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #37

Newsstand Date March 19, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #112
Misnumbered #2

Shipping Date February 24, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #37

Shipping Date February 24, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #112
Misnumbered #2

Copyright Date February 24, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Newsstand Date March 19, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #692, #694

Shipping Date February 24, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #692, #694

Shipping Date December 23, 1986
Source: Comics Journal, #114
Listing erroneously uses the date for #1

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Roy Thomas

Title: "'A' Is for Stamina... 'Z' Is for Power..."
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Captain Marvel (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Roy Thomas
Writer: Danette Thomas
Artist: Thomas Mandrake
Letterer: Agustin Mas
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted In:
Shazam:The New Beginning 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition HC (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Captain Marvel (last appearance in Shazam:The New Beginning #2; next appearance in Shazam:The New Beginning #4)

Supporting Character(s)

• Dudley Batson (last appearance in Shazam:The New Beginning #2; next appearance in Shazam:The New Beginning #4)
• Shazam (last appearance in Shazam:The New Beginning #1; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Black Adam (last appearance in Shazam:The New Beginning #2; next appearance in Shazam:The New Beginning #4)
• Sivana (last appearance in Shazam:The New Beginning #2; next appearance in Shazam:The New Beginning #4)

Other Character(s)

• Beautia Sivana (last appearance in Shazam:The New Beginning #2; no further appearances)
• Magnificus Sivana (last appearance in Shazam:The New Beginning #1; no further appearances)
• Emily A. Thickert (K-WHZ station manager; next appearance in Shazam:The New Beginning #4)
• Mrs. Peebles (Dudley's neighbor; next appearance in Shazam:The New Beginning #4)
• King Menes and his people (in flashback; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Black Adam (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Shazam:The New Beginning #1)
• Shazam (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Shazam:The New Beginning #1)

Comments:
This story is continued in part from Shazam:The New Beginning #2 and continues in Shazam:The New Beginning #4.

Synopsis:
Billy and Dudley return to Dudley's apartment in San Francisco. Billy hears the news about the stolen airplane and wants to report what he knows. He visits Emily Thickert, the station manager at K-WHZ to tell his story. She doesn't believe him and calls the Sivana's to take Billy.

Billy becomes Captain Marvel and returns to the subway tunnel to find Shazam. He meets the wizard's ghost who tells Billy the origin of Black Adam. Captain Marvel deduces that Sivana's machines pulled the villain from the dimension where he was exiled.

Captain Marvel heads for Sivana's home where he confronts the scientist. Black Adam interrupts and starts a fight. The two super-powered men are evenly matched, but Sivana knocks out Captain Marvel with a weapon he planned to use against Black Adam.