A key issue noted for First appearance of Famine. The Book of Fate #9 was published by DC Comics on October 1, 1997, as part of a series that began in 1997. Alan Grant and Keith Giffen write, and art comes from Bill Reinhold, Mike Danza and Ron Wagner. This 36-page issue features Death, Doctor Occult, Fate, Pestilence and Famine, among 7 characters cataloged on VerseDB.