Doctor Fate: His History Before Black Adam

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Written By Chris Well

Doctor Fate is a DC Comics character from their Golden Age—created only two years after Superman and one year after Batman.

In the upcoming Black Adam movie, DC Comics’ legendery magic character Doctor Fate promises to be an important figure in the film. While Fate has long been an established character in the comics, he’s not as well known as his other DC peers. However, Doctor Fate has quite an interesting history, and has played an important role over the years in the DC Comics universe. Watch the video below from Variant Comics for more info about this intriguing character…

History Of Doctor Fate

Doctor Fate is a Lord of Order who has been hosted by several different sorcerers that have appeared in DC Comics. The original version of the character was created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Howard Sherman, and first appeared in More Fun Comics #55 (May 1940). Watch the video below from Top 10 Nerd outlining info about the character before Black Adam.

Top 10 Doctor Fate Facts You Need To Know…

About Black Adam: Hailed as the slave who became Champion, the mortal slave Teth-Adam was bestowed the powers of the gods. When he used his powers for vengeance, he was entombed, becoming Black Adam. Nearly 5,000 years later, Black Adam is freed from his imprisonment and finds his unique form of justice challenged by modern day heroes in the form of the Justice Society. Watch the trailer below for Black Adam, including glimpses at some of the superheroes involved in the film’s story…

Black Adam - Official Trailer 2

Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

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