Doctor Fate #23 was published by DC Comics on December 1, 1990, as part of a series that began in 1988. J.M. DeMatteis writes, and art comes from Lovern Kindzierski, Richard Ory and Shawn McManus. This 36-page issue features Kent Nelson, Phantom Stranger, Inza Nelson, Nabu the Wise and Eric Strauss, among 14 characters cataloged on VerseDB.