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For a long time, the main impetus for DC reprinting any its voluminous back catalog was some promotional or licensing tie-in: a movie, a TV show, some merchandise they were trying to push, or just a popular ongoing book. Given how prominently Dr. Fate was featured in the recent BLACK ADAM movie, therefore, it's surprising and somewhat disheartening that DC didn't take the opportunity to do some kind of greatest hits compilation for the character, who was certainly the best thing about that mostly terrible film.

This is especially unfortunate because you could fit quite a bit of Dr. Fate's Silver Age and Bronze Age non-JSA appearances in a single volume, starting with the two 1965 SHOWCASE team-ups with Hourman shown above, by Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson. There are also a number of later team-ups with Superman and Batman:

Fate then got a couple of solo features in the '70s:

Kubert cover notwithstanding, the 1ST ISSUE SPECIAL story, which is written by Marty Pasko, has some really outstanding early Walt Simonson art, while the SECRET ORIGINS OF SUPER-HEROES story has an eight-page retelling of Fate's origin, narrated by Kent Nelson's wife Inza, by the ALL-STAR team of Paul Levitz and Joe Staton.

In 1982, Doctor Fate got his own eight-page backup feature in, weirdly enough, THE FLASH #306–313. Despite what a couple of the covers imply, there wasn't a team-up between the Flash and Fate (who in those days still existed on separate parallel Earths); the Fate strip was just an unrelated second feature.

This strip, written by Marty Pasko and Steve Gerber with spectacular art by Keith Giffen and Larry Mahlstedt, presents an array of interesting ideas (some of which obviously paved the way for Giffen's 1987 revamp). Pasko had already established (in the 1975 1ST ISSUE SPECIAL story) that Doctor Fate wasn't exactly Kent Nelson: He was really the ancient Lord of Order Nabu, the entity who trained Nelson in the magical arts, who possessed Nelson's body whenever he put on the Helm of Fate. In other words, the Dr. Fate of these stories isn't so much a man wearing a magical helmet as a magical helmet wearing a man. Nabu has made both Kent and Inza ageless — they both appear about 25, but by this time, they're really in their 60s — but allows them little real control of their lives. Kent has more or less resigned himself to it, but Inza is feeling the strain of being trapped in a magical menage à trois with her husband and an inhuman entity that has little regard for Kent's welfare and even less for hers. Nabu, for his part, seems to exist in a state of constant mystical urgency in which human frailties are an unaffordable distraction.

This could have been really compelling, and it's both graphically interesting and quite strange, but all that is a lot to squeeze into eight-page installments, and having them crammed in the back of one of DC's most conventional superhero books was obviously not optimal. It was also having to compete for Giffen and Mahlstedt's attention with LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES, which I assume was why the Fate strip was dropped after only eight installments.

To everyone's surprise, there was even a Doctor Fate action figure in 1984 as part of the Kenner Super Powers line. This came with a little minicomic, which to my knowledge has never been reprinted:

All of this stuff would add up to something in the realm of 230 pages, which would easily fit into a single trade paperback collection with a digestible price point. Maddeningly, DC has already done the color remastering for roughly three-fifths of this material, so even that probably wouldn't be a huge chore (although the Giffen/Mahlstedt stuff, which has a lot of color holds and graphic effects, really calls for more care in remastering than DC has tended to give its older material of late.)

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Original Art - Super Spider-Man With The Super-Heroes #172 Pg 01 (1976) by Mike Nasser (Marvel UK)

#Comics #Marvel Comics #Marvel UK #Super Spider-Man With The Super-Heroes #Thing #Mike Nasser #The Thing #Vintage #Art #Original Art #UK #Alicia Masters

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(1977)

#Challengers Of The Unknown #comic book #1977 #Swamp Thing #Mike Nasser #cover art #Joe Rubinstein

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BHOC: MARVEL TALES #100

Despite the fact that it was a reprint title, MARVEL TALES didn’t miss the opportunity to go oversized for its 100th issue, a trend that had started with the centennial issues that Marvel and DC were putting out. It’s kind of a mixed bag, in that one of the secondary features doesn’t have any relation to the lead character, Spider-Man. But it was still entertaining, even if it cost more coin than…

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#Amazing Spider-Man #Gerry Conway #Gil Kane #Hawkeye #John Romita #Luke Cage #Marvel #Marvel Tales #Mike Nasser #Scott Edelman #Stan Lee #Steve Ditko #Terry Austin #Two-Gun Kid

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(via Amazing World of DC Comics #15 - Neal Adams art - Pencil Ink)

Front cover by Mike Nasser - 1976

#Mike Nasser #comics #cover art #fanzine #Amazing World of DC Comics #1976 #vintage #wonder woman #lynda carter

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The Thing gets zapped in Marvel Two-in-One #70 by Mike Nasser

#marvel comics #marvel #ben grimm #the thing #thing #marvel two in one #mike nasser

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Marvel Two-in-One #70 (Gruenwald & Macchio/Nasser, Dec 1980). Thieves steal Alicia’s statues as she’s moving into the Baxter Building. The Yancy Street Gang is on the case!

#marvel #marvel 616 #marvel two in one #ben grimm #the thing #mark gruenwald #ralph macchio #mike nasser

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Mike Nasser and Al Milgrom - Marvel-Con '76 cover (1976) Source

#mike nasser #al milgrom #Marvel-Con #Marvel-Con '76 #original art #incredible hulk #iron man #captain america #spider man #the thing #howard the duck

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“The leer on his face”

#princess projectra #Universo #Bob Layton #Mike Nasser

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What if we made her dream a nightmare?

#legion of super heroes #dream girl #nura nal #dream #nightmare #the future #30th century #paul levitz #mike nasser #dc comics #comics #70s comics #bronze age comics #dat rack #superboy and the legion of super heroes

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Challengers of the Unknown 6 Issue Lot (1962-1977) by DC Comics

Written and drawn by various.

#Challengers of the Unknown #Comic Book Lot #Comic Books #DC Comics #Vintage Comics #Etsy #Bob Brown #Volcano Man #Arnold Drake #Mike Nasser #Michael Netzer #Joe Rubinstein #Gerry Conway #Gaylord Clayburne #France Herron #Quadruple Man #Flying Fishermen #Moon-Beast

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Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes No.236 - Feb 1978, cover by Mike Grell & Joe Rubinstein.

Interior art by James Sherman + Bob McLeod, Mike Nasser + Joe Rubinstein, Rick Bryant.

#comic books #bronze age #dc comics #mike grell #joe rubinstein #superboy and the legion of superheroes #superboy #legion of super heroes #rick bryant #mike nasser #bob mcleod #james sherman

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When did Ben Stokes turn from cricketer to cameraman? Mark Wood supported, seeing the VIDEO you will also say wow!

When did Ben Stokes turn from cricketer to cameraman? Mark Wood supported, seeing the VIDEO you will also say wow!

highlights The England team is performing brilliantly under the captaincy of Ben Stokes. England won the 3-match Test series 3-0 on Pakistan tour new Delhi. England Test team captain Ben Stokes appeared in the role of cameraman on the ground after cleaning the host team in the 3-match Test series against Pakistan. During this, Stokes was not alone, but he was supported by fellow player Mark…

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#all rounder ben stokes #Ben #Ben Stokes #cameraman #cricketer #eng vs pak #england cricket team #england tour of pakistan #Mark #Mark Wood #mike artherton #nasser hussain #pacer mark wood #Stokes #supported #turn #video #Wood #wow..

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One of a number of new (and generally underwhelming) DC titles of the mid-seventies, KOBRA ran seven issues, and featured six different art teams.

The book was based on an original concept by Jack Kirby (who drew an unused first issue). Martin Pasko reworked the unused Kirby issue with Pablo Marcos, and went from there.

KOBRA 1: Art by Jack Kirby, Pablo Marcos and D. Bruce Berry.

KOBRA 2: Art by Chic Stone and Pablo Marcos.

KOBRA 3: Art by Keith Giffen, Terry Austin and Dick Giordano.

KOBRA 4: Art by Pat Gabriele and Lowell Anderson

KOBRA 5: Art by Rich Buckler and Frank McLaughlin.

KOBRA 6: Art by Mike Nasser and Joe Rubinstein

KOBRA 7: Art by Mike Nasser and Joe Rubinstein.

#Kobra #Jack Kirby #DC Comics #70s #Keith Giffen

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The FBI in Miami has warned of an Iranian assassin that is wanted in connection to assassination targets against former and current public officials, such as those involved in former President Donald Trump's administration.

The FBI field office in Miami shared a wanted notice for Majid Dastjani Farahani on Friday.

"Majid Dastjani Farahani, an Iranian intelligence officer, is wanted for questioning in connection with the recruitment of individuals for various operations in the United States, to include lethal targeting of current and former United States Government officials as revenge for the killing of IRGC-QF Commander Qasem Soleimani," the FBI stated.

"Farahani also reportedly recruited individuals for surveillance activities focused on religious sites, businesses, and other facilities in the United States," the FBI said. "Farahani acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security."

The announcement by the FBI comes amid heightened tensions between Iran and the U.S. Earlier this year, three U.S. Service members were killed at a military base in Jordan. President Joe Biden announced that "radical, Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq," were responsible, prompting speculation on Iran's role in the incident.

According to the BBC, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaan denied Tehran was behind the attacks, saying that Iran is "not involved in the decision-making of resistance groups."

However, in 2022, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi made a speech in which he blamed Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for the killing of Soleimani.

"If Trump and Pompeo are not tried in a fair court for the criminal act of assassinating General Soleimani, Muslims will take our martyr's revenge," Raisi said, according to Reuters. "The aggressor, murderer and main culprit—the then-President of the United States—must be tried and judged under the (Islamic) law of retribution, and God's ruling must be carried out against him."

In December 2023, the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against Farahani and another Iranian intelligence officer Mohammad Mahdi Khanpour Ardestani.

"Both Farahani and Ardestani have recruited individuals for various operations in the United States, to include lethal targeting of current and former U.S. Government officials as revenge for the death of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force Commander Qasem Soleimani," the Treasury Department said. "Farahani and Ardestani also recruited individuals for surveillance activities focused on religious sites, businesses, and other facilities in the United States,"

#nunyas news #yikes much

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