The world of Lovecraft and weird fiction is a rather untapped resource for film with ALIEN and THE THING most successfully mining the ground of bizarre, inhuman creatures utterly indifferent to humanity. With the outbreak of World War II, Doctor Fate turned to fighting Nazis and other more traditional supervillains for the rest of his Golden Age run, but arguably the most notable comic stories featuring Doctor Fate are from the first year or so of his publishing history. Lovecraft battling evil sorcerers, fish men, and other assorted supernatural menaces out of a tower in Salem, from which Lovecraft based his Arkham. But, Doctor Fate’s roots are home to weird fiction and horror as much as superheroics.ĭoctor Fate was created in 1940 by artist Gardner Fox and artist Howard Sherman as pretty much a pastiche of H.P. Doctor Strange certainly has embraced the cosmic and extradimensional over the years. What’s more, there’s a distinct difference in the themes and stories of the two characters. I’d argue that the ankh is a distinctive symbol that won’t be confused with any spell cast by Doctor Strange or Harry Potter. Doctor Fate, on the other hand, draws his influences primarily from an Egyptian theme, drawing from the Egyptian archeological expeditions of the years proceeding his creation. It’s some of the most distinctive and imaginative art that ever graced a comic book page. The late, great Steve Ditko drew from Eastern influences and 1960s psychedelia for his magical realms and spells. In addition, the two sorcerers draw from different visual influences.
Then again, there are teachers at Hogwarts that can probably say the same and nobody seems confused.
And they both inhabit structures with various portals and other magical paraphernalia. In some incarnations, they are both medical professionals. Or Black Panther looks like Batman.Ĭertainly there are similarities between Doctor Strange and Doctor Fate. Certainly they look less alike than Captain Marvel/Shazam looks like Superman. To that end, I’ll throw my hat in the ring and offer DC’s sorcerer hero Doctor Fate as a feature to be developed.īut, “What about Doctor Strange?” I expect is the first question. Right now it seems that the plan is to move in the direction of standalone features that aren’t reliant on a shared universe and which preferably play in genres that Marvel isn’t playing with either. By all accounts, the direction of DC on film is undergoing much discussion.
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