Comic Title: Doctor Fate #4
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: October 1987
On Sale Date: July 14, 1987 Newsstand Date July 14, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #41

Shipping Date June 23, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #41

Shipping Date June 23, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #121

Shipping Date June 23, 1987
Source: Focus, #1, Page BC

Shipping Date June 23, 1987
Source: Capital City Distributors, Orderpack June 1987

Copyright Date June 23, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Incarnations"
Pages: 27

Feature(s):
Doctor Fate (Eric/Linda Strauss Post-Crisis)

Writer: J. Mark DeMatteis
Penciller: Keith Giffen
Inker: David Hunt
Letterer: Agustin Mas
Colorist: Anthony Tollin

Feature Character(s)

• Doctor Fate (Eric Strauss; last appearance in Doctor Fate #3; next appearance in Booster Gold #22)

Supporting Character(s)

• Kent Nelson (dies in this story; last appearance in Doctor Fate #3; next appearance in Millennium #6)
• Linda Strauss (merges into Doctor Fate with Eric; last appearance in Doctor Fate #3; next appearance in Doctor Fate Annual #1)
• Nabu (last appearance in Doctor Fate #3; next appearance in Millennium #6)
• Lords of Order (last appearance in Doctor Fate #2; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #2)

Villain(s)

• Typhon (last appearance in Doctor Fate #3; next appearance in Doctor Fate #3)
• Doctor Benjamin Stoner (last appearance in Doctor Fate #3; next appearance in Doctor Fate #18)

Comments:
This story is continued from Doctor Fate #3.

Synopsis:
Eric Strauss and Nabu confront Stoner who has gained control of Doctor Fate's helmet and amulet. Strauss is nearly killed, but Linda's presence sustains him. Kent Nelson has realized that Doctor Fate must be two people working together and instructs Linda to merge with Eric. When she does so, they form a new Doctor Fate.

After Typhon, the Lord of Chaos possessing Stone, admits defeat, Fate and Kent Nelson return to the Salem tower. Kent asks Nabu to abandon his body and he dies. Nabu returns to face the Lords of Order, but he will not return to them. Instead he inhabits Kent Nelson's corpse and returns to Earth to advise Eric and Linda. Upon his return the Salem tower is demolished.