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 Dr. Fate
Doctor Fate is a comic book superhero and wizard in the DC Comics universe, and a member of the Justice Society of America.
In the late 1990s, the Fate character was retired in the new JSA series, and Doctor Fate returned in the person of Hector Hall, the former Silver Scarab, and the son of the Golden Age Hawkman and Hawkgirl.
As a female Doctor Fate, she spent a couple of years striving to improve the lot of humanity, later aided by Kent once he was able to regain his Superman-esque powers of earlier years.
www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Dr_Fate.php   (2452 words)

  
 Doctor Fate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Doctor Fate was a member of DC’s Golden Age all-star group the Justice Society of America and was an essential part of the group during its 1970s revival.
Doctor Fate was a regular member of the JSA during the All Star Comics revival of the 1970s, as well as appearing in First Issue Special #9 (1975), drawn by Walt Simonson.
Doctor Strangefate is the Amalgam Comics equivalent of Doctor Fate combined with Doctor Strange and Charles Xavier of Marvel Comics.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doctor_Fate   (4215 words)

  
 www.justicesociety.org - The Book of Fate - All Things Dr. Fate & Beyond
The tower of Doctor Fate was created as a safe haven for the host(s) of the Fate persona.
If Doctor Fate was ever in trouble, he would flee to the tower by a "spell of detection" that reaches beyond the multiverse.
The majority of the tower was destroyed by Kingdom's hordes for the possession of the artifacts of Doctor Fate, the Helmet of Nabu, the Amulet of Anubis and the cloak of destiny.
www.impulsegamer.com /fate/tower.htm   (868 words)

  
 Chaos - Fate - Order
In time the Helm of Nabu was recovered and the full power Doctor Fate returned to the world unlike many of his colleges in the disbanded JSA Kent did not age (and neither did Inza due to a magical spell) so remained relatively active as Doctor Fate.
The original Doctor Fate would have remained as he was if it had not been for the start of the fourth and final age, the Kali Yuga during the late twentieth century.
At his/her height Doctor Fate was one of the three most powerful sorcerers on the planet and perhaps one of the ten most powerful beings on the planet.
captain.custard.org /classic/drfate.html   (3665 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Doctor Fate
Occult … The Spectre …; and of course, this one, Doctor Fate.
Doctor Fate started out with a half-dozen pages in the less prominent parts of More Fun Comics, but made an appearance on the cover, fighting his arch-enemy, Wotan, as early as his second outing.
It's pretty clear, tho, that Doctor Fate, in one form or another, has become a permanent fixture of the DC Universe.
www.toonopedia.com /fate.htm   (817 words)

  
 www.justicesociety.org - The Book of Fate - All Things Dr. Fate & Beyond
However, the Dark Lord's victory was short lived as the artifacts of Fate crushed Mordru and banished him to the netherworlds of the Amulet of Anubis.
As Hector Hall collects the artifacts of Fate, Nuklon recognizes his old friend from Infinity Inc. Their reunion is brief as Kent Nelson appears and congratulates Hector on the task he performed.
The New Doctor Fate recently played a role in the Day of Judgement crisis where he and the rest of the magical heroes of Earth grouped together for a final battle with Azmodel for control of the Spectre.
www.impulsegamer.com /fate/drfate4.htm   (1812 words)

  
 Dr. Fate
Early in his career, Dr. Fate met the Spectre (Spectre v.3 Annual #1) and both of them were founding members of Justice Society of America, in 1941.
Doctor Fate was active with the Justice Society and its wartime incarnation, the All-Star Squadron through the early 1940s.
Soon after Jared's death, Dr. Fate was reborn in the body of the child of Hawk and Dove (Hank Hall and Dawn Granger) — a child of Chaos and Order.
www.mykey3000.com /cosmicteams/profiles/drfate.html   (1270 words)

  
 JSA Members: Doctor Fate
Fate's first encounter upon his debut was with the sorcerer Wotan, an ancient wizard who had battled Nabu in a previous physical incarnation (All-Star Squadron #47).
Fate set up a base of operations in Salem, Massachusetts, residing in a doorless, windowless tower that only he could enter or leave.
Nabu, or Fate, resided in the Helm of Nabu.
my.execpc.com /~icicle/DRFATE.html   (1680 words)

  
 Fate (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fate (Jared Stevens) was a fictional character in the DC Comics universe, who first appeared in Fate #0, the start of his own series.
Fate would go on to star in the series Book of Fate (1997), which ended up lasting only 12 issues before it too was cancelled.
During the events of Zero Hour, Extant aged the original Doctor Fate (Kent and Inza Nelson) to their chronological ages and scattered their artifacts throughout various dimensions, where they eventually appeared in Egypt.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fate_(comics)   (490 words)

  
 KryptonSite Message Forums - Freeze - Part 11 - Clark vs. Fate
Doctor Fate, hovering in mid-air, his arm’s outstretched, glides through the light, his yellow cape flowing fantastically behind him.
Doctor Fate ignores him and lifts his hands in the air.
Fate continues flying higher to avoid his pursuer, clapping his hands together to bring more and more stones into Clark’s path, but Clark manages to use them instead, leaping off of them, climbing them like steps, chasing Fate higher and higher up the tower.
www.kryptonsite.com /forums/showthread.php?postid=158351   (3258 words)

  
 Dr. Fate
Tools & Weapons: When wearing his original helmet, Doctor Fate is one of the most powerful of all known sorcerors, capable of virtually any kind of magical feat.
A couple of years after he first assumed the Dr. Fate identity, Kent Nelson learned that he was actually losing control of his body whenever he donned Nabu's mystical helmet and that Nabu himself was controlling Fate's actions.
Fate has participated only sporadically in All-Star Squadron adventures, as his attention is usually devoted to pursuing a variety of mystical threats.
blaklion.best.vwh.net /fate.html   (768 words)

  
 The religion of Doctor Fate (Eric Strauss)
Linda Strauss, the wife of Eric Strauss, was a "co-host body" of the Doctor Fate entity, along with her husband.
In most of Doctor Fate's appearances, the character had no connection to Eric Strauss, and even when Strauss was a co-host of Doctor Fate, his own consciousness had only a limited impact on the Doctor Fate persona.
Fate [comic] somewhere where he was fighting some demonic entity and having a hard time.
www.adherents.com /lit/comics/DoctorFate.html   (532 words)

  
 Showcase #55: The Glory of Murphy Anderson Review - Silver Bullet Comics
When Gardner Fox was once interviewed about the 1940 creation of DOCTOR FATE, he made a point of emphasizing that although the rest of the costume was the artist's conception, it was Fox who had suggested the helmet which is modified after headgear worn by ancient Greek warriors.
And concerning the definitiveness of DOCTOR FATE's appearance, panels from later issues of his More Fun stories and his All-Star chapters included some of the exact same poses that appeared in earlier issues of both titles indicating that the original images were probably traced and then inserted in later stories.
Keep in mind that back in the 1940's, DOCTOR FATE's popularity began to wane not only with a change of writers, but with the replacement of artist Howard Sherman (this parallels the waning of the Silver Age Hawkman and Spectre; Anderson was just too tough an act to follow).
www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /reviews/106806498169926.htm   (2766 words)

  
 Doctor Fate (Hector Hall) - DC Database - A Wikia wiki
See also Doctor Fate and Sandman for a complete list of references to clarify differences between these closely named or closely related articles.
Formerly the Silver Scarab and a fill-in for Morpheus, Hector Hall has been reborn to be the newest Doctor Fate.
Mordru had killed Fate and was attempting to use the artifacts entitled to Doctor Fate and kill Hector while he was still a child.
www.dcdatabaseproject.com /Doctor_Fate_(Hector_Hall)   (682 words)

  
 Comic Book Resources - CBR News: The 52 Steps: Week Eighteen
Fate is one of those legacy characters that Marvel fans generally hate and DC fans generally love.
In the 1960's with the revival of the Justice Society as the "Heroes of Earth-2," Doctor Fate was brought back along side his cohorts in a chain of annual team-ups with the silver-age Justice League of America.
After this run, DC retired Doctor Fate and passed his mystic artifacts on to a mercenary soldier who carried the transformed Helmet and Amulet in the form of darts and a dagger.
www.comicbookresources.com /news/newsitem.cgi?id=8325   (1618 words)

  
 Batman/Warlock: Soul Brothers #4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The doctor hung on the Ahnke and over head the moon grew more like blood and the gathering then waited soon, it would be their turn.
Fate could hear strange things like, "c’mon Hal and Barry, how much longer can you keep this up?" But either Fate was disorientated or mad because Hal Jordan and Barry Allen were dead and that was the only names he could place.
The gathering fled and then the new Doctor Fate took of the Helmut of Nabu to reveal the golden warrior Adam Warlock who was recognized from his ordeal in the Shards’ conflict (see shard for more details) his empty gaze nearly as unsettling as anything the dark gathering could conjure.
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 FATE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
During Zero Hour, Extant stripped the original Doctor Fate (Kent and Inza Nelson) of their power while aging them beyond their years.
The items of Doctor Fate, Helmet of Nabu, Cloak of Destiny and Amulet of Anubis were scattered throughout the dimensions and eventually appeared in Egypt, a nexus of power.
While arriving in the US, Jared was summoned by Kent and Inza Nelson (the original Doctor Fate) to their tower in Salem so that they could claim the items.
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 Wizard Entertainment
DC Comics’ Doctor Fate has always had the ingredients to be a hit—great name, striking design, one of the best accessories in comics with the Helm of Nabu—but this doc has often called in sick.
Doctor Fate has wandered through several solo series, only to be met with early cancellation.
Doctor Fate has long been a “Lord of Order” in the DCU…and that’s about all readers knew about him.
www.wizarduniverse.com /magazine/wizard/002578766.cfm   (878 words)

  
 Superhero Encyclopedia: Dr. Fate
As Doctor Fate, the Nelson's merged to form one being that was controlled by Nabu's will power.
When the JSA reunited, Fate was killed by their first adversary Mordru.
The Fate powers were passed on to a child who will become the new Dr. Fate.
members.tripod.com /~rikmertens/dc/drfate.html   (205 words)

  
 stevegerblog » Doctor Fate, etc.
DC has officially announced the new Doctor Fate series on Newsarama, so I’m free to discuss it now — and I will, after the weekend.
Fate has been retconned sufficient times that you have a pretty open hand with the character.
Doctor Fate hasn’t ever been a favorite of mine, but I’ll check it out if you’re writing.
www.stevegerber.com /sgblog/2006/10/13/doctor-fate-etc   (2028 words)

  
 COURT TV ONLINE - Mass. v. Sharpe
Balliro said Karen Sharpe, the defendant's high school sweetheart and the mother of their three children, kept him from falling apart, but when she left the marriage, he began to crumble mentally.
Many potential jurors were excused because they said they had read news accounts of Sharpe's habit of dressing in wigs and stockings and disapproved.
During the trial, Sharpe testified that cross-dressing relaxed him, and his psychiatric expert, Dr. Keith Ablow, said that, along with Sharpe's various plastic surgeries, his cross-dressing was proof the doctor suffered an identity disorder, one of several diagnosed by Ablow.
www.courttv.com /trials/sharpe/112601_ctv.html   (822 words)

  
 scans_daily: DC First Issue Special #9: Doctor Fate
Issue 9 was devoted to Doctor Fate, with writing by Martin Pasko and art by Walt Simonson.
Doctor Fate is unable to gain ground against Khalis' power until Inza (the wife of the archaeologist he possesses) discovers that a fragment of Khalis' sarcophagus has his secret magical name written on it.
Armed with this, the Doctor is able to unleash an equally stylish counterattack.
community.livejournal.com /scans_daily/1709317.html   (400 words)

  
 Dr. Fate
With Fate downed, and possibly dead, the forces of Chaos would be running wild.
He wore a fl and gold uniform patterned after Dr. Fate's, though the helmet he wore was of a dull, blood-red color.
Fate series that saw Eric and Linda give way to Inza and, of course, the current JSA series published by DC.
www.aric-dacia.com /pendragons/fate01.htm   (3126 words)

  
 SHOWCASE #55: The Glory of Murphy Anderson
When Gardner Fox was once interviewed about the 1940 creation of DOCTOR FATE, he made a point of emphasizing that although the rest of the costume was the artist's conception, it was Fox who had suggested the helmet which is modeled after headgear worn by ancient Greek warriors.
And concerning the impact of DOCTOR FATE's appearance, panels from later issues of his More Fun stories and his All-Star chapters included some of the exact same poses that appeared in earlier issues of both titles indicating that the original images were probably traced and then inserted in later stories.
Sherman put FATE into a world of light and shadow which was not unlike the eerie mysterious atmosphere of the early Golden Age Batman.
comicbookbin.com /showcase055.html   (2906 words)

  
 Dr Fate (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Thus, he became Doctor Fate to fight evil wherever it appeared.
Fate also cofounded the new Justice League and lined with them until they fought the Gray Man. Then, the Kali Yuga, the final age of man in which Chaos would engulf itself to create the new Golden Age, started.
Now, Inza Nelson became the new Doctor Fate until she leanrt to merge with Kent.
pc59te.dte.uma.es /cdb/series/dc/drfate1.htm   (857 words)

  
 Dr. Fate II
During the modern heroic age, Inza would become jealous of Doctor Fate as she would lose her husband to him for unknown amounts of time.
However, after she, Kent, and Nabu joined together to become Fate, she came to realize what it meant to be Doctor Fate.
Originally the Lords of Order meant for Doctor Fate to be man and woman, and sent Nabu to find a female and male host for Doctor Fate, but Nabu craved power and control.
members.fortunecity.com /mjstauffer/Characters/Members/DrFateII.htm   (591 words)

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