cloaked stranger

Don't know about all the histories but in the one right before the new 52 it was
Billy's father. As far as this show goes like Isis they didn't have a origin ep they were already had there powers when the show started.




repeat to yourself it's just a show you should really just relax.
ever story is neverending

In the Fawcett Comics stories, no. he's just some cloaked figure (not an uncommon plot device, for that era). In the Power of Shazam series, by Jerry Ordway (90s DC), it was revealed to be the spirit of his father, CC Batson (a tribute to artist CC Beck). That was to explainwhy Billy willingly goes, though he never directly sees that it is his father. We, as the audience, are the ones who get to see it. Ordway also came up with a way to incorporate Mr Tawky Tawny, by making him a Pookah spirit that appears to Dudley, though he first appears as Mary Batson's stuffed tiger. Ordway threw in more than a little bit of Calvin and Hobbes in his version. All in all, that was probably the best use of the character at DC, aside from Kingdom Come. Black Adam got a bit more mileage, in JSA and beyond. The Billy Batson and the Power of Shazam series, for the younger audience, was actually pretty darn good. The Jeff Smith Monster Society of Evil was a bit of a letdown, for me. It had moments, but I didn't think it fully gelled.

"Fortunately, Ah keep mah feathers numbered for just such an emergency!"