Not every individual on one Earth has a direct counterpart on the other. Such would be the case for Captain Marvel. Such would not be the case for the lads known as Billy Batson. Consider, the Billy Batson of three parallel planets. On Earth-S, he has an adult alter ego that is... essentially... a separate individual than that of the young lad himself. As Captain Marvel, he is his world's greatest hero. On Earth-One in the 1980's, that world's Billy is a school-aged lad raised by his Uncle Dudley. On Earth-Two in the 1940's, that world's Billy is simply a newsboy selling the Daily Star. While Earth-One's Superman met Billy while battling an unwelcome visitor from Cap's universe, Black Adam, Earth-Two's Superman as Clark Kent simply brushed past his own Billy... although the lad indirectly inspired Ken's decision to seek employment with the Star as a reporter!So while the two powerless Billy's are the counterparts of the boy Batson from Earth-S, that's Billy's Captain Marvel alter ego is the counterpart to the Supermen of Earths One and Two... since no Kal-El/Kal-L arrived from Krypton-S (it apparently blew up with no survivors). On one occasion, the Earth-Two Man of Steel did encounter Captain Marvel and Billy Batson of Earth-S... side-by-side... after they arrived on his world thanks to a teleportation device created by Gootsden, the chief scientist for that Earth's Hitler and his Nazi regime. So while on Earth-One, the separate Billy and Captain Marvel* teamed up with Superman to defeat Black Adam, on Earth-Two the separate Billy and Superman teamed up with other heroes to defeat Captain Marvel!
* The duplicate Captain Marvel which Gootsden split off from Billy Bateson that existed for a few weeks in 1942 Earth-Two mirrored the evil similarly powered Zha-Vam which was created by ancient Roman beings to battle the Earth-One Superman early in his career.
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