[1] The Lieutenants appeared periodically in the adventures of Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family through the early 1950s, and also when the characters were revived by DC Comics in the 1970s under the title Shazam!, although rarely.

Some people, such as Jonathan Woodward in his Annotated Crisis on Infinite Earths website, suggest that the Lieutenant Marvels died in the last battle of the Crisis on Infinite Earths,[2] although Who's Who in the DC Universe claims they survived but lost their powers.

Sivana's goons mistakenly find the other Billy Batsons instead and capture them.

With seconds to spare, Billy enlists the aid of his club members and they all shout "Shazam!"

They hear a noise in a shed, and find Sivana's daughter Beautia bound and gagged inside.

They fly away before Sivana detonates tons of dynamite under the house, then defeat him.

#30, when the whole Marvel Family is called upon to destroy Sivana's steel menagerie, which is threatening to wreck Pittsburgh.

Incongruously, the three are able to transform on their own, while in a later story, "Assault on the Rock of Eternity" in World's Finest Comics #267, Captain Marvel has to gather the three Billies together so they could simultaneously say the magic word in order to transform.

In the direct-to-video animated film Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, three superpowered henchmen with powers similar to the Marvels are employed by Superwoman, a criminal, parallel universe incarnation of Wonder Woman,[3] and referred to as her Lieutenants.

In the TV series Young Justice, Freddy Freeman and Mary Bromfield, under the names Lieutenant Marvel and Sergeant Marvel, joined the Team AND left the Team in between Seasons One and Two.