Comic Title: Golden Age Doctor Fate Archives Vol. 1 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: July 5, 2007 Direct Market Date June 27, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #2 (#218)

Direct Market Date July 5, 2007
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Thursday, July 5, 2007

Cover Price: $75.00
Page Count: 396

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: (The Shadow Killers)
Pages: 10

Feature(s):
Doctor Fate (Kent Nelson of Earth-2)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Howard Sherman

Reprinted From:
More Fun Comics #69 (1941)

Feature Character(s)

• Doctor Fate (last appearance in All-Star Comics #5; next appearance in More Fun Comics #70)

Supporting Character(s)

• Inza Cramer (last appearance in All-Star Comics #5; next appearance in More Fun Comics #70)

Villain(s)

• Ian Karkull (next appearance in More Fun Comics #70)
• Slick, Hart, and an unnamed gangster (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Everett Dahlen (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Kent Nelson and Inza attend a society party. Kent finds explorer Everett Dahlen dead. A shadow man flees the scene. Kent pursues, but he is unable to touch the shadow man.

Later as Doctor Fate, Kent uses his mystic powers to track the shadow man to Ian Karkull, Dahlen's former partner. Karkull has invented a machine that can turn men into shadows and back. He is using the machine for crime, so Doctor Fate step in to stops the scientist. Karkull turns himself into an intangible shadow to escape, but when Doctor Fate destroys his machine, Karkull is unable to resume human form. Karkull is left to wander the world trapped in shadow form.