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| Nabu | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | More Fun Comics # 67 (May 1941) |
| Created by | Gardner Fox & Howard Sherman |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Nabu |
| Species | Cosmic being |
| Place of origin | Cilia |
| Team affiliations | Lords of Chaos and Order |
| Partnerships | Doctor Fate (various) Ancient Egyptian deities |
| Notable aliases | Nabu the Wise Doctor Fate |
| Abilities |
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Nabu (also known as Nabu the Wise) is a fictional deity in American comic books published by DC Comics. An adaptation of the eponymous Mesopotamian patron god, the character was adapted by Gardner Fox and Howard Sherman, first appearing in More Fun Comics #67 (May, 1941). Featuring various departures from Babylonian mythology, Nabu is a major supporting and recurring character in Doctor Fate stories and comics.
Within the DC Universe, Nabu is a cosmic entity among the Lords of Chaos and Order, embodying order. While his exact origins depend on continuity, he is depicted as a dissident and fierce personality among his brethren with an obsession with defeating chaos at any costs,[1] he is the creator of the Helmet of Fate and progenitor of the sorcerous Doctor Fate line in the 20th century after tiring his human form fighting evil and aiding ancient Egyptian deities. His first agent was archaeologist Kent Nelson whom he manipulated, often supplanting his agency and will with his own.[1][2] Nabu would continue being a significant presence among several incarnations of Doctor Fate such as Eric and Linda Strauss, Hector Hall, and Khalid Nassour,[3] later replaced during Nassour's reign as Doctor Fate by Egyptian goddess Hauhet, a colleague of Nabu.[4]
Publication history
[edit]Nabu first appeared in More Fun Comics # 67 (May 1941) and was created by Gardner Fox and Howard Sherman.
Fictional character biography
[edit]Origin and early history
[edit]Nabu was born long ago shortly after the formation of the universe, in which the Lords of Chaos and Order were born as elemental, cosmic forces in constant opposition with one another for supremacy by the ultimate creator of the DC Universe, the Presence.[5] During the dawn of human civilization, Nabu takes an active role in guiding them by adopting a human form and assisting heroes from ancient Egypt such as Black Adam and Prince Khufu, an early incarnation of the eventual Hawkman hero, and aids the ancient Egyptian deities.[1][2]
Nabu once guarded powerful talisman such as Khaji-Da, the Blue Beetle scarab, during the rule of Vandal Savage, who assumed the identity of Pharaoh Khafe. During a time travel incident, he helps Time Master Bonnie Baxter defeat Savage but loses the scarab in the process until it is eventually found by Dan Garrett in the 20th century.[6] Nabu would encounter threats such as the Spectre, whom utterly defeated the lord and unleashed what was later known as the Plagues of Egypt detailed in the Books of Exodus despite his best efforts.[5][7] Wounded from centuries of combat in his human form, Nabu eventually places himself in suspended animation to heal in a ancient tom and sleeps for thousands of years.[8][2]
Doctor Fate
[edit]In 1920, archaeologist Sven Nelson and his son Kent go on an expedition to the Valley of Ur. While exploring a temple discovered by his father, Kent opens the tomb of Nabu the Wise and revives him from suspended animation, accidentally releasing a poisonous gas which kills Sven. Nabu takes pity on Kent and teaches him the skills of a sorcerer over the next twenty years before giving him a mystical helmet, amulet, and cloak. In 1940, Kent meets Inza Cramer and Wotan in Alexandria, Egypt on his way back to America. After arriving back in the United States, Kent begins a career fighting crime and supernatural evil as the sorcerer and superhero Doctor Fate and sets up a base in a tower in Salem, Massachusetts. Due to Nabu occasionally possessing him, he converted to half of the helm to regain control but at the cost of halving the power.
After Kent's death, Nabu chooses Eric Strauss and his stepmother Linda to be the next Doctor Fate, with Eric and Linda having to merge into one being in order to become Fate.[9] Nabu goes on to possess Kent's corpse in order to personally advise them.[9] The three of them are soon joined by a friendly demon called Petey and lawyer Jack C. Small.[10] Eric is killed on Apokolips during a battle with Desaad, forcing Linda to become Doctor Fate on her own.[11] Linda is killed soon afterwards by the Lords of Chaos. Despite their grim fates, Eric and Linda's souls are reincarnated in the bodies of Eugene and Wendy DiBellia while Nabu reincarnates in Eugene and Wendy's unborn child.[12]
Death
[edit]Eventually, Nabu came into conflict with the Spectre when he began hunting down and killing other Lords of Chaos and Order. In Infinite Crisis, Alexander Luthor, Jr. revealed that he had sent Superboy-Prime to recover the black diamond and that the Psycho-Pirate delivered it to Loring on Alex's orders and had Eclipso-Loring manipulated the Spectre by convincing him magic was an abomination to God and into breaking down magic into it's more raw energy form, in which doing so killed the Lords of Chaos and Order in the process. In doing so, Alexander could use them for his own ends. After killing other Lords of Order including the Wizard Shazam, Nabu was the last one to face him. Nabu put up a valiant fight against the Spectre but knew he would lose this battle and instead, opted to fight at a level for the Presence to take notice. Fatally injured but ultimately stopping the Spectre. Nabu, in his final act, passed his Helm of Fate to Detective Chimp and tasked him to find one worthy of the mantle. With his death, the 9th Age of Magic had ended and the 10th Age of Magic begun.
New 52 onward
[edit]Revised origin and early history
[edit]In Nabu's revised history, there are two conflicting origins; one states that Nabu and the Lords of Order were early humans and sorcerer-kings who ascended their existence with the power to govern magic as the Lords of Order by siphoning magic power from the goddess Hecate, a divine native from the Dark Multiverse. Due to the immense power they possess, their human body could not contain their body and thus created magical objects to bound their essence into.[13][14][15] This conflicts with an earlier origin more akin to his previous depictions as a Lord of Order[16] with the addition of being a disciple of Thoth (credited as the creator of the Helmet of Fate) bound by Nabu into it to act as a it's guiding spirit.[17]
In the early history of ancient Egypt, champions were chosen by Egyptian deities to act as supernatural defenders and were gifted the Helmet of Fate, whom Nabu possessed as a human host body. Overtime, however, Nabu's power were eventually consolidated into the helm itself.^A
Powers and abilities
[edit]A cosmic being and power entity, Nabu is considered both of the most powerful entities on Earth and also one of the most powerful Lords of Order, rivaled only by fellow Lords such as Arion[18] and wields power considered incalculable.[19] A immensely powered and accomplished magic wielder, Nabu is capable of employing a wide array of super powers such as telepathy, projecting mystical bolts of energy, teleportation, immortality, and more when he is in physical form. Much of his magic manifests in an Egyptian ankh.[19] Even in the form of the Helm of Fate, Nabu can communicate with those whom bear him and others, produce visions, levitate, flight, and can use his powers to access computers. He can also possess others at will to use their bodies.[19][20]
Notes
[edit]^ The DC Comics Encyclopedia: New Edition states that the champions were known as "Doctor Fate". However, the DC Universe Infinite Encyclopedia also states that those whom possess the helm during the times of ancient Egypt were merely hosts and centuries later, they're named Doctor Fate. This coincides with the 2022 Justice Society of America series with Kent Nelson stating he is the first Doctor Fate although the helm's responsibilities existed for centuries.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Wiacek, Stephen (2021-11-30). The DC Book: A Vast and Vibrant Multiverse Simply Explained. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-7440-5856-7.
- ^ a b c "DC Universe Infinite Encyclopedia: Doctor Fate". 2021-03-07. Archived from the original on 2021-03-07. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
- ^ Levitz, Paul (2016). Blood price. Sonny Liew, Lee Loughridge, Nick Napolitano, Steve Wands. Burbank, CA. ISBN 978-1-4012-6121-4. OCLC 933580456.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ V, Ram (2022). Justice League Dark: The Great Wickedness. [S.l.]: DC Comics. ISBN 978-1-77951-551-3. OCLC 1269618795.
- ^ a b The Spectre Vol. 2: Wrath of God. DC Comics. 2014-12-23. ISBN 978-1-4012-5729-3.
- ^ Wayne, Bob; Shiner, Lewis; Jr, Jose Marzan; Roy, Adrienne (2008-02-13). Time Masters. DC Comics. ISBN 978-1-4012-1659-7.
- ^ "DC Infinite Encyclopedia: Spectre". 2021-12-03. Archived from the original on 2021-12-03. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
- ^ Garnder, Fox (w); Sherman, Howard (i) (1941). More Fun Comics #67. DC Comics.
- ^ a b Doctor Fate #1–4 (July–October 1987)
- ^ Doctor Fate (vol. 2) #2 (December 1988)
- ^ Doctor Fate (vol. 2) #12 (December 1989)
- ^ Doctor Fate (vol. 2) #24 (January 1991)
- ^ IV, James Tynion (2019-03-12). Justice League Dark Vol. 1: The Last Age of Magic. DC Comics. ISBN 978-1-4012-8812-9.
- ^ IV, James Tynion; V, Ram (2019-10-22). Justice League Dark Vol. 2: Lords of Order. DC Comics. ISBN 978-1-77950-374-9.
- ^ Manning, Matthew K.; Wiacek, Stephen; Scott, Melanie; Jones, Nick; Walker, Landry Q. (2021-07-06). The DC Comics Encyclopedia New Edition. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-7440-5301-2.
- ^ Thorne, Geoffery (2021). Green Lantern (2021-) #8. DC Comics.
- ^ Levitz, Paul (2016). Blood price. Sonny Liew, Lee Loughridge, Nick Napolitano, Steve Wands. Burbank, CA. ISBN 978-1-4012-6121-4. OCLC 933580456.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Giffen, Keith (2017). Hard choices. J. M. DeMatteis, Scott Kolins, Romulo Fajardo, Josh Reed. Burbank, CA. ISBN 978-1-4012-7507-5. OCLC 837140933.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b c The DC comics encyclopedia : the definitive guide to the characters of the DC universe. Scott Beatty, Daniel Wallace (Updated and expanded ed.). New York: DK Pub. 2008. ISBN 978-0-7566-4119-1. OCLC 213309017.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ The DC comics encyclopedia : the definitive guide to the characters of the DC universe. Matthew K. Manning, Stephen Wiacek, Melanie Scott, Nick Jones, Landry Q. Walker, Alan Cowsill (New ed.). New York, New York. 2021. ISBN 978-0-7440-2056-4. OCLC 1253363543.
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