Comic Title: Doctor Fate Annual #1
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1989
On Sale Date: July 25, 1989 Shipping Date July 27, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #168

Shipping Date July 25, 1989
Source: Previews, #5

Direct Market Date July 27, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #106, #108

Copyright Date July 25, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Cover Price: $2.95
Page Count: 64
Editor: Art Young

Title: "...and Forget..."
Pages: 30

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

Writer: J. Mark DeMatteis
Artist: Thomas F. Sutton
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Lovern Kindzierski

Feature Character(s)

• Doctor Fate (last appearance in Blasters Special #1; next appearance in Doctor Fate #7)
• Linda Strauss (last appearance in Doctor Fate #6; next appearance in Doctor Fate #7)

Villain(s)

• Henry Strauss (as a spirit; first appearance; last appearance in Doctor Fate #17; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Rebecca Strauss (in flashback)

Comments:
This story must take place before Eric Strauss takes ill in Doctor Fate #7.

Synopsis:
Eric and Linda are both haunted by nightmare visions, but neither is willing to tell the other what they see. They decide to combine into Doctor Fate, so they can communicate without words. Eric has been seeing visions of his dead mother that he adored. She killed herself to escape her husband Henry, who later married Linda, before he too died. Linda is haunted by Henry's ghost.

To end the visions, Doctor Fate travels to the underworld where they find Henry's spirit. He explains that he needs Eric's hatred in order to pass on to the next world. Eric has long denied his father and blocked him out, so Henry sent both Eric and Linda the visions. Henry provokes Eric into releasing his feelings of hatred and love. This allows Henry to move forward. Eric and Linda are also able to resolve some of their own feelings about their past.