Doctor Fate
Forgotten Justice League members:
The cinematic debut of The Justice League is in 30 days, and to countdown let's take a look at members of the Justice League most have forgotten or never knew about.
Doctor Fate, in 1920, archaeologist Sven Nelson and his son Kent go on an expedition to the Valley of Ur. While exploring a temple discovered by his father, Kent opens the tomb of Nabu the Wise and revives him from suspended animation, accidentally releasing a poisonous gas which kills Sven. Nabu takes pity on Kent and teaches him the skills of a sorcerer over the next twenty years before giving him a mystical helmet, amulet & cloak. In 1940, Kent meets Inza Cramer and Wotan in Alexandria, Egypt on his way back to America. After arriving back in the United States, Kent begins a career fighting crime and supernatural evil as the sorcerer and superhero Doctor Fate and sets up a base in a tower in Salem, Massachusetts.
He is a founding member of the Justice Society and later, after Crisis on Infinite Earths in 1985, a member of the Justice League. Since his creation by Gardner Fox in 1940, there have been several incarnations of Doctor Fate, most of which share genetics with Kent Nelson, the original Doctor Fate, as either grandnephews or other relatives.
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