Doctor Fate
Doctor Fate is a fictional succession of DC Comics sorcerers who appear within the DC Universe. The original version was created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Howard Sherman, and first appeared in More Fun Comics #55 (May 1940). Beginning in the 1960’s, the character was also a member of Golden Age all-star group, the Justice Society of America.
Initially, Doctor Fate was Kent Nelson, the the son of an archaeologist who died discovering the tomb of the mystical being Nabu. The orphaned boy was trained by the ancient entity in the arts of magic. However, after the Crisis on Infinite Earths storyline, DC introduced several new versions of Doctor Fate. These included: Eric and Linda Strauss, a man and woman who could merge to form Doctor Fate; Inza Nelson, Kent Nelson’s reincarnated wife; a mercenary named Jared Stevens who used Nelson’s weapons but called himself simply Fate; a resurrected Hector Hall, the son of Justice Society of America members Hawkman and Hawkgirl, and Kent V. Nelson, grand-nephew of the original,[1] who begins his journey as Doctor Fate in Las Vegas, with no awareness of his family’s connection to mysticism.
The revivals prior to Kent V. Nelson were relatively short-lived. Doctor Fate’s appearances in other media and comics set outside the continuity of the DC Universe (for instance, in the DC animated universe) tend to be of the original Golden Age Kent Nelson incarnation
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