“Gonna Change My Way of Thinking” is a feature spotlighting notable examples of retcons that don’t fit into the framework of Abandoned an’ Forsaked, which is specifically about stories that outright “overturn” older stories. There are many examples of “retroactive continuity” that do not actively abandon the works of the past (especially cases where the overall continuity was rebooted). Some of them are minor, some of them are major. Today, we look at how a Doctor Fate tryout issue retconned the character’s entire Golden Age history.First Issue Special (with the title designed as 1st Issue Special) was a novel concept that DC Publisher Carmine Infantino came up in the mid-1970s based on the idea that, by the 1970s, the first issues of comic book series always sold the best, so why not a whole SERIES of first issues? That, of course, doesn’t really make a lot of sense (since people tend to prefer to pick up the first issue of ONGOING books, not just one-shot stories), but whatever, the order was put down to then-new DC editor Gerry Conway, so he worked on getting features for the series, which would work like a new version of DC’s Showcase, where characters would get a shot with a “first issue” and then, if people liked it, then they could turn the idea into an actual ongoing series.In March 1940, Gardner Fox and Howard Sherman introduced Doctor Fate in the pages of More Fun Comics #55. This was very early in the Golden Age of superheroes, and superheroes very often were introduced to features just sort of in media res, as Doctor Fate is already an established superhero with a love interest who needs saving and everything. However, one thing that is clear about Doctor Fate is that he DID have magical powers…
“Gonna Change My Way of Thinking” is a feature spotlighting notable examples of retcons that don’t fit into the framework of Abandoned an’ Forsaked, which is specifically about stories that outright “overturn” older stories. There are many examples of “retroactive continuity” that do not actively abandon the works of the past (especially cases where the overall continuity was rebooted). Some of them are minor, some of them are major. Today, we look at how a Doctor Fate tryout issue retconned the character’s entire Golden Age history.
First Issue Special (with the title designed as 1st Issue Special) was a novel concept that DC Publisher Carmine Infantino came up in the mid-1970s based on the idea that, by the 1970s, the first issues of comic book series always sold the best, so why not a whole SERIES of first issues? That, of course, doesn’t really make a lot of sense (since people tend to prefer to pick up the first issue of ONGOING books, not just one-shot stories), but whatever, the order was put down to then-new DC editor Gerry Conway, so he worked on getting features for the series, which would work like a new version of DC’s Showcase, where characters would get a shot with a “first issue” and then, if people liked it, then they could turn the idea into an actual ongoing series.
In March 1940, Gardner Fox and Howard Sherman introduced Doctor Fate in the pages of More Fun Comics #55. This was very early in the Golden Age of superheroes, and superheroes very often were introduced to features just sort of in media res, as Doctor Fate is already an established superhero with a love interest who needs saving and everything. However, one thing that is clear about Doctor Fate is that he DID have magical powers…
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