Comic Title: Doctor Fate #10
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: September 1989
On Sale Date: August 8, 1989 Shipping Date August 8, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #169
Misnumbered #19

Shipping Date August 8, 1989
Source: Previews, #5

Direct Market Date August 10, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #110

Copyright Date August 8, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

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

Title: "Denial"
Pages: 23

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

Writer: J. Mark DeMatteis
Artist: Shawn McManus
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Lovern Kindzierski

Feature Character(s)

• Eric Strauss (last appearance in Doctor Fate #9; next appearance in Doctor Fate #11)
• Linda Strauss (last appearance in Doctor Fate #9; next appearance in Doctor Fate #11)

Supporting Character(s)

• Nabu (last appearance in Doctor Fate #9; next appearance in Doctor Fate #11)
• Petey (last appearance in Doctor Fate #9; next appearance in Doctor Fate #11)
• Jack C. Small (last appearance in Doctor Fate #9; next appearance in Doctor Fate #11)

Villain(s)

• Darkseid (last appearance in Doctor Fate #9; next appearance in Doctor Fate #11)
• Lords of Chaos (last appearance in Doctor Fate #9; next appearance in Justice League Europe #8)
• Lords of Order (last appearance in Doctor Fate #9; next appearance in Justice League America #32)

Comments:
"The Death of Innocence Part One"

This story is continued in part from Doctor Fate #9 and continues in Doctor Fate #11.

Synopsis:
Linda returns home after her first task as Doctor Fate and is informed by Nabu that Eric is dead. Linda checks on Eric to confirm it. She finds his lifeless body, but Eric is soon restored to health when his soul leaves Linda and returns to his body. After sorting things out, Linda leaves town with Petey and Jack to get away.

Elsewhere, Darkseid meets with the Lords of Order and Chaos. He explains to them that the new Doctor Fate is a prototype for the new evolution of humanity which will one day supplant them. Darkseid offers to kill Fate in exchange for a piece of creation once the war between Chaos and Order is resolved. After the Lords agree to Darkseid's terms, the ruler of Apokolips pays a visit to Eric and Nabu.