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SUPER-HERO 014 UPDATE: DOCTOR FATE 1940

SUPER-HERO 014 UPDATE: DOCTOR FATE 1940

Doctor Fate plays his cards very close to his vest in his first year of operation. We don’t get a whole lot more information about him than we started out with: magic guy, cool helmet. We do however learn where he lives: Doctor Fate’s fourth appearance marks the first appearance of his iconic headquarters, the mysterious ancient tower with no doors that stands outside of Salem, Massachusetts (and it is as always pretty gauche to link Salem to actual magical…

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SUPER HERO FILE 014: DOCTOR FATE

SUPER HERO FILE 014: DOCTOR FATE

(More Fun Comics 055, 1940) There are several major ways to introduce a super-hero: you can lay out their whole deal right away and make their first adventure an origin story, or have them relate their origin in a quick flashback, or leave their origin mysterious and only sprinkle in the odd clue now and again. Or, as in the case of Doctor Fate, you can just kind of handwave it. “Yeah, yeah, he’s a magic man. He knows a…

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