Comic Title: Doctor Fate #4
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: February 1989
On Sale Date: January 10, 1989 Shipping Date January 10, 1989
Source: Direct Currents, #12

Shipping Date January 12, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #155

Direct Market Date January 12, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #82

Copyright Date February 7, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger

Title: "Nightfall"
Pages: 24

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

Writer: J. Mark DeMatteis
Penciller: Shawn McManus
Inker: Mark McKenna
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Lovern Kindzierski

Feature Character(s)

• Doctor Fate (last appearance in Doctor Fate #3; next appearance in Doctor Fate #5)
• Linda Strauss (last appearance in Doctor Fate #3; next appearance in Doctor Fate #5)

Guest Star(s)

• Andrew Bennett (last appearance in Doctor Fate #3; next appearance in Doctor Fate #5)

Supporting Character(s)

• Nabu (last appearance in Doctor Fate #3; next appearance in Doctor Fate #5)
• Petey (last appearance in Doctor Fate #3; next appearance in Doctor Fate #5)
• Jack C. Small (last appearance in Doctor Fate #3; next appearance in Doctor Fate #5)

Villain(s)

• Lords of Order (last appearance in Doctor Fate #3; next appearance in Doctor Fate #6)
• Typhon (last appearance in Doctor Fate #3; next appearance in Doctor Fate #5)

Other Character(s)

• Azzarene (caretaker of the Grail; next appearance in Doctor Fate #5)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Doctor Stoner (in a nightmare)

Comments:
"The Night of Brahma Part Three"

This story is continued from Doctor Fate #3 and continues in Doctor Fate #5.

Synopsis:
The Lords of Order guide their new agent Andrew Bennett to Europe. He arrives in London, then is directed to the tiny nation of Eustania. In the form of a bat, Bennett enters a decaying castle guarded by an ancient man on a throne. The man is named Azzarene, and he guards the Holy Grail. Bennett senses that the Grail is a part of the plan to bring about Mahapralaya. Azzarene directs him to drink blood from the Grail.

Meanwhile Doctor Fate, Nabu, and Typhon in possession of the body of Jack Small are on Bennett's trail. However, Typhon is secretly driving Eric insane with memories of Arkham Asylum. When Eric is finally overcome by his nightmares, Linda takes over control of Fate causing Doctor Fate's physical form to take a female shape.