Comic Title: Doctor Fate #19
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: July 1990
On Sale Date: June 5, 1990 Shipping Date June 5, 1990
Source: Previews, #15

Shipping Date June 5, 1990
Source: Amazing Heroes, #179

Shipping Date June 7, 1990
Source: Advance Comics, #17

Direct Market Date June 7, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #153

Copyright Date June 19, 1990
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1990

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Art Young

Title: "Chaos Descending"
Pages: 24

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

Writer: J. Mark DeMatteis
Artist: Shawn McManus
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Lovern Kindzierski

Feature Character(s)

• Doctor Fate (last appearance in Doctor Fate #18; next appearance in Doctor Fate #20)
• Eric Strauss (in possession of Eugene Di Bella; last appearance in Doctor Fate #18; next appearance in Doctor Fate #20)

Guest Star(s)

• Phantom Stranger (last appearance in Captain Atom #42; next appearance in Doctor Fate #20)

Supporting Character(s)

• Nabu (last appearance in Doctor Fate #18; next appearance in Doctor Fate #20)
• Jack C. Small (last appearance in Doctor Fate #18; next appearance in Doctor Fate #20)
• Petey (last appearance in Doctor Fate #18; next appearance in Doctor Fate #20)

Villain(s)

• Doctor Benjamin Stoner (becomes Anti-Fate in this story; last appearance in Doctor Fate #18; next appearance in Doctor Fate #20)
• Lords of Chaos (last appearance in Doctor Fate #18; next appearance in Doctor Fate #20)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Two-Face (last appearance in Black Orchid #2; no further appearances)
• Professor Ivo (last appearance in Justice League of America #261; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Wendy and Raina (last appearance in Doctor Fate #18; next appearance in Doctor Fate #20)
• Inmates at Arkham Asylum (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Doctor Fate #18 and continues in Doctor Fate #20.

Synopsis:
Nabu, Jack Small, and Petey worry when Linda does not return from her search for Eric. Eventually, she does return. She explains that her power as Doctor Fate is disappearing. Nabu explains that Fate was meant to be two people. With Eric gone, her power is fading. He then gathers the group and takes them on a trip to Fate's tower which has been reconstructed.

Elsewhere, the Phantom Stranger visits Eric Strauss whose soul is trapped in the body of Eugene Di Bella. He attempts to restore Eric's memory of his true self.

Meanwhile, the Lords of Chaos transform Dr. Stoner into a chaos warrior, the Anti-Fate. Stoner travels to the place of his former employment and proceeds to stage a break out at Arkham Asylum.