Khalid would also appear in several title crossovers such as Superman, Teen Titans Academy, and The Flash. While the original 2018 series was cancelled in 2020, the Justice League Dark series was instead re-purposed as a backup issue to the mainstream Justice League title, the backup issue written by award-winning author Ram V featuring a new storyline with Khalid remaining a reoccurring member of the Justice League Dark subdivision. The character also was redesigned with a new Doctor Fate costume. In this roster, Khalid was revealed to be an eventual new member of the Justice League as the lead Doctor Fate instead of Kent Nelson. In 2018, DC launched a second Justice League Dark series written by James Tynion IV starring a new roster lead by Wonder Woman. It is also revealed his mother, Elizabeth Nassour, to be the niece of Kent Nelson, who he becomes an apprentice under. The series also featured stories involving Khalid using his powers to defusing riots at the United Nations while balancing his life as a medical student. Thrusted into conflict with Anubis, Khalid eventually embraces his destiny and pharaoh ancestry, defeating Anubis in the process and becoming the new Doctor Fate. In the series, Khalid's origin story revolves around him coming to terms with his destiny to oppose the dark god Anubis, having been chosen by the Egyptian gods (Bastet notably) and Nabu himself as the next sorcerer in line to bear the mantle "Doctor Fate". The series ran for 18 issues from June 2015 to November 2016. And I've watched his work and stayed aware of it in the years since." I liked Sonny Liew's work years ago on My Faith in Frankie, and ran into him in Singapore a few years ago when I got the chance to be the guest of honor at a convention there. "And for a visual look, the guys really wanted something fresh - not the standard superhero approach that's been going on for the last few years. "So looking at the kinds of diversity we have today, and remembering a bunch of my conversations with Egyptian Americans, I just thought, what if a person who gets the helmet this time, in this world, is an Egyptian American young man?" Levitz said the Egyptian connection of the original is what fascinated him the most. According to Levitz, Dan Didio and Jim Lee wanted a different feel from the original incarnation when Gardner Fox created him during the Golden Age of Comic Books. The title focused on the newest Doctor Fate, an Egyptian-American medical student named Khalid Nassour. The character would make his first media appearance in Young Justice, voiced by Usman Ally.Īfter the conclusion of the Convergence limited series in June 2015 and the start of the " DC Rebirth" line, DC launched a new Doctor Fate ongoing series, written by Paul Levitz and drawn by Sonny Liew. In more recent times, the character is portrayed as a member of the Justice Society of America and a medical school graduate. Later, the character is portrayed as a reoccurring member of the Justice League Dark roster, officially succeeds Kent Nelson as the main incarnation of Doctor Fate before he is killed off. While guided by Nabu, ancient Egyptian deities, his great-uncle Kent Nelson, and Archangels, the character is portrayed as struggling with the dual life of a superhero as Nelson teaches and acts as Doctor Fate alongside his grand-nephew concurrently. īorn of Egyptian and White American descent, the character starts out as a medical student whose pharaoh lineage and contact with ancient Egyptian deities designates him as the next successor of Doctor Fate, a sorcerous legacy hero who defends Earth from supernatural threats. He is notably DC Comics' first Muslim character to headline a solo series. Created by writer Paul Levtiz and artist Sonny Liew to emphasize diversity and revitalize Doctor Fate's character in a new direction, Khalid originally debuted in Aquaman: Convergence #2 (July 2015) before headlining his own Doctor Fate series. Khalid Nassour is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, being the eighth character to adopt the Doctor Fate codename in mainstream comics. Expertise in magic, spell-casting, and occult Mystic artifacts (Helmet of Fate, Cloak of Destiny, Amulet of Anubis) bolsters and grants various additional magical powers dependent on patronage.ĭr.
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