10 Worst Things Black Adam Has Ever Done

10. He Spent Years Trying To Kill Children

Granted, they were all super-powered children and members of the Marvel Family throughout the history of the character, but in nearly every iteration of the character, Black Adam has known that Billy Batson and his family and friends were children and teenagers that were transformed by magic. In their first encounter with Adam, he bound and gagged both Billy and Freddy and threatened to kill them later. Mary marvel battled Black Adam while Uncle Marvel freed the boys.

In the “Bronze Age” first appearance of Black Adam, he is resurrected by Dr. Sivana’s reincarnation machine, and both he and Captain Marvel are thrust back in time to 1776. Adam forces the lightning to strike Marvel and transform him back into Billy. He binds and gags the boy and throws him into the sea. Billy swims to shore and is saved by one of the rebel colonists, a young metal-smith named Paul Revere.

A magically empowered Sivana had freed Black Adam from his tomb in Kahndaq and he immediately killed Sivana’s assistant because he didn’t speak his language. Adam wasted no time seeking out the Wizard’s new champion upon learning of him and threatened to kill his six foster siblings if Shazam did not relinquish his power. It was Billy’s other option to empower his siblings and create a Marvel Family that saved the day.