High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Black Adam is a fictional comic book character, created in 1945 by Otto Binder C. C. Beck for Fawcett Comics. Originally created as a one-shot villain for Fawcett Comics` Marvel Family team of superheroes, Black Adam was revived as a recurring supervillain after DC Comics began publishing Captain Marvel/Marvel Family stories under the title Shazam! in the 1970s. As originally depicted, Black Adam was a corrupted ancient Egyptian predecessor of Captain Marvel, who fought his way to modern times to challenge the hero and his DC Family associates.