>>107058042Why, yes, I can. MAI NIGGA Doctor Fate is my favorite character and yes, whenever he has threads, I usually give recommendations. I haven't read everything that's been written with him, but I have read most and even for those that I haven't fully read, I've read a bit and have the gist.
1)Now, even if it's not THE best Dr Fate story, a great starting point is the Immortal Doctor Fate miniseries. It does something rare, it shows us the main Fate doing his job as Fate. Like, a classical
>this is who I am and what I do run. You read that, you get what Fate is about. Mostly.
2.)Now, we move on to the best Doctor Fate run, the one by DeMatteis. It has an intro and a main part, the intro is important to the story so read that too.
The DeMatteis run is collected in Doctor Fate vol 1 and in the first half of Doctor Fate vol 2.
3)Also great is the second half of Doctor Fate vol 2. It continues the story, but it's not written by DeMatteis, it's written by Messner-Loebs. Still good. Here you see the first seeds of Doctor Fate as an agent of Balance.
4)Doctor Fate volume 3. I think here is where he calls himself an agent of Balance fully. Self contained story. Not exceptional, but a very good read.
1 through 4 are all solid.
Now, if you want to expand, some extra stuff.
5)Countdown to mystery is an origin of a new Fate but it is an interesting read. Mostly because it's trippy, psychedelic, with multiple endings.
6)Also, 90s edgy Fate has two books Fate and Book of Fate. I forget which came first. I think the first one is better. While these two suffer from 90s-itis, they're not as bad as you think from looking at the cover, but they're not the peak obviously. However, the first one features Alan Scott too and who doesn't like Alan?
7)He appears a lot on side stuff, like JLI (good) and Johns' JSA (not that bad, imo. Regardless of what you think of Johns, his Fate in his JSA wasn't horrible.)
As for the bad stuff, like nu52 Fate. I am not fond of that.