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[trucywright]

A random assortment of DC Halloween icons.

Top row, JSA: Jade, Cyclone, Liberty Belle

2nd row, magic: Xanadu, Amethyst, Heather After

3rd row, Titans: Miss Martian, Duela Dent, Stitch

4th row, random: Gotham Girl, Bleez, Lia Nelson/Lightray

5th row, JSA-adjacent: Judy Garrick, Salem the Witch Girl, Inza Nelson

Feel free to use. Credit appreciated but not required.

[webshootersandwingdings]

DC Comics Presents (1978) #23

[evilhorse]

If there is something to be done darling, Fate will attend to it…

(All-Star Comics #71)

[splooosh]

Inza

Vince Giarrano

[aboutzatanna]

can we get a summary of Zatanna’s interactions with Swamp Thing? And/or Madame Xanadu?

(Sorry it took a while to answer to this. Not being able to answer this has been bugging me for a while)

Outside of JLD, the most notable interactions I can think are:

-For Swamp Thing:

Although her Dad died as a guest star in a Swamp Thing, Zatanna and Swamp Thing never really interacted in that specific arc.

There was a Swamp Thing mini series in 2011 by Len Wein (Swamp Thing's other Dad) and artist Kelly Jones (perfect fit for the title) which revolved around Swamp Thing/Alec Holland looking for a cure for his condition with his friend, Matt Cable which leads the two of them to Zatanna's place.

Continuity wise, it a bit of a mess. What with Matthew Cable being...well....alive...human and...not one one of Morpheus's crows. Plus references to Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run but ST is a human turned to swamp creature instead of a swamp creature who thought it was human. That said, Alec Holland was brought back to life thanks to the events of Brightest Day so that's not as egregious as Matthew Cable.

Zatanna is the magician who gets the biggest focus. Her characterization is the same as her preNu52, same goes for Phantom Stranger and Etrigan. But this mini fits neither the Pre Nu52 continuity nor the Post Nu52 continuity. I think it can be enjoyed and read on it's own. It's just stuck in a weird middle ground continuity wise because it was published in a time when nobody at DC was sure if the Nu52 was a full, clean slate reboot or partial reboot and no one could decided what should remain in continuity and what shouldn't.

-For Madame Xanadu:

The first major story to have Zatanna and Xanadu interact with each other was Spectre Vol 2 #7-8 titled 'Pieces of Zatanna'. It's a rare body horror story involving Zatanna where she finds her limbs and other parts of her body disappearing and returning but she knows they are not her original limbs.

So Zatanna quickly runs to Madame Xanadu for help. Although this is the first time readers see Zatanna and Xanadu interact, the two are already aware of each other.

The story is meant to resolve loose ends from Zatanna's final appearance in Justice League of America Vol 1 #257 as well as give Zatanna some closure for her fathers death in Swamp Thing #50.

Zatanna later appeared in Spectre Vol 2 #11, this time, of all things, the limo driver who chaueffer's Xanadu, Bronze Tiger and June Moon to a meeting arranged by the Spectre involving all the magical beings so they can discuss their roles in the human world. Not sure why Zee couldn't have just teleported them there, but then again, maybe they just wanted to enjoy a nice drive and limo is implied to be Zatanna's.

Years later, in Madame Xanadu's own series Madame Xanadu #9 we learn that Xanadu and John Zatara had dated in the past which goes a long way towards explaining how Zatanna knows her.

In Spectre Vol 3, around #16, there was a story arc where an Eclipso possessed Spectre went on a rampage. Zatanna appeared in the story arc but didn't get to interact with Xanadu as she was recruited to by Phantom Stranger to be on his team alongside Etrigan and the Inza Nelson Doctor Fate. Xanadu made her own team with Father Creamer and Ramban. Notably it's Xanadu's team that ends up succeeding at stopping the Spectre's rampage but cutting to the heart of the issue and confronting Corrigan's spiritual crisis directly.

Aside from that, Xanadu and Zatanna often appear together in ensembles during events like Obsidian Age and Day of Vengeance but they are not always notable.

I always thought that Xanadu could be a cool step mom figure for Zee since the latter operates in a male dominated world.

I haven't read Bendis Justice League in full yet but around the time the JLD back up feature was getting cancelled we did get to see Zatanna and Xanadu team up to fight a possessed Black Adam in Justice League Vol 4 #73:

[momachan]

"Michael... But I'm no innocent! In my hubris, I drove an innocent man-- Michael Landau-- to hang himself in his cell. In my grief and rage, I destroyed an entire country! I killed innocent beings! What sins did the children commit who died that day?! How am I better than those I was sent to judge?!.. I have failed to understand. Amy tried to teach me and I wouldn't hear. Without mercy, there is no justice-- only vengeance. I must confront evil and understand better the darkness, the evil, within my own soul."

The Spectre (1992-1998) Vol. 2: Wrath Of God. "Final Judgements."

*This comic is a work of fiction. If you need help please call your local crisis lifeline. They will give you free and confidential support. Remember: Your life matters.

[somewherefornow]

KENT NELSON & INZA NELSON in DOCTOR FATE (1988)

[cgbcomics]

[sebeth]

Dr. Fate

[ufonaut]

I was cursed by the witches of Limbo Town when I left. Anyone gets too close to me, they get hurt. Doctor Fate was in the middle of trying to free me from my curse. And now he's dead.

Justice Society of America (2022) #6

(Geoff Johns, Marco Santucci)

[macoygreco]

The Fangs of Fear, Part Two

Following a mysterious murder in Park City, The Black Canary is in over her head, facing occult forces beyond her expertise. Her only ally: Doctor Fate, who’s recently abandoned the helmet of Nabu, and the power that comes with it. Will our superheroes be able to overcome the supernatural? Or will they fall to… The Fangs of Fear!

Part Two, Written and Lettered by myself, with Art and Sound Effects by @punktmmaing. Special thanks to Cass (@cassiecomics on twitter) for reading over the script!

Also available on:

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Read Our Frightening First Installment Here: https://www.tumblr.com/macoygreco/701693258885201920/written-by-me-macoygreco-and-drawn-by?source=share

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[trucywright]

Can you imagine how fun it would be to have Khalid (the actual Helmet of Fate user), Kent (grumpy old mentor figure), Inza (chaos helmet variant), Salem (chaos child), and Stitch (fun chaos child) all in one comic? Please I need a family sitcom with them.

[cantsayidont]

July 1987. They can't all be winners: The success of the Keith Giffen/J.M. DeMatteis JUSTICE LEAGUE spawned a variety of spinoffs, some of which worked better than others. Some, like this four-issue DR. FATE miniseries in 1987, were so odd as to defy easy analysis. The mini begins with Nabu, the bodiless, immortal entity who gives Dr. Fate his power, learning that his fellow Lords of Order have decided to abandon the mortal plane to the forces of Chaos, as the body of Fate's human host, Kent Nelson, whom Nabu has kept ageless for almost 50 years, begins to fail. Unwilling to admit defeat or relinquish control, Nabu attempts to groom a new host: a 10-year-old boy named Eric Strauss, magically aged to adulthood and caught between Nabu's manipulations and the sanity-destroying threat of Typhon, a Lord of Chaos who has taken control of Arkham Asylum. However, Nabu hasn't figured on Eric's attachment to his stepmother Linda, who has a role in the destiny of Dr. Fate that neither Nabu nor Typhon has anticipated.

This is primarily a supernatural horror story, and a surreal and sometimes disturbing one — it's not always clear what you're looking at, and there's enough gore, grue, and body horror that you're probably better off not asking! How much of the action is real or hallucinatory is often left ambiguous, including a pointless appearance by Fate's now-former Justice League comrades in #3. The plot, which builds on ideas from an earlier Dr. Fate backup series in THE FLASH in 1982 (which Giffen pencilled, although it was written by Marty Pasko and Steve Gerber), is also disturbing in another way: It hinges on the fact that Linda Strauss is in love with her stepson, and is destined to mystically join with him to form a new, bi-gender Dr. Fate — which might have been a cooler idea if not for the age-gap incest overtones.

Astonishingly, given all that, the miniseries was successful enough to spawn an ongoing series, written for its first two years by DeMatteis with irritatingly cutesy art by Shawn McManus, that played these elements for schticky comedy rather than cosmic horror, infused with a heavy dose of DeMatteis's woolliest mysticism. A subsequent change of direction by William Messner-Loebs (returning Kent and Inza Nelson) was less divisive, but also less interesting, and the book struggled along for another year and a half before expiring. DC had been trying to make Dr. Fate a headliner for a surprisingly long time — even including him in the last round of Super Powers action figures in 1984 — but the ongoing series ended up basically wrecking the character's commercial prospects for a good while, prompting the otherwise inexplicable Jared Stevens big-gold-knife era of the 1990s.

[evilhorse]

Why, gentle Inza—do you doubt Fate?

(All-Star Comics #70)

[splooosh]

Inza

Peter Gross

[dailyjsa]

JSA All-Stars v1 #3

Writer/Artist/Inker: Darwyn Cooke

Colors: Mark Chiarello