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More Fun Comics #55 (May 1940):
“The Menace of Wotan”
by Gardner F. Fox, Howard Sherman

More Fun Comics #55

Title: “The Menace of Wotan”

Feature: Doctor Fate

Medium: comic

Cover date: May 1940

Publisher: DC
Written by: Gardner F. Fox
Art by: Howard Sherman


5 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Doctor Fate Doctor Fate (Kent Nelson)
(lead character)
hero
CBR Scale: M occult
All-Star Squadron; The Justice Society of America DC 114
Wotan villain
CBR Scale: M Norse-Teutonic paganism; sorcerer; worshipped as goddess; Judeo-Christian (convert)
[saw light of God (Yahweh), reformed; lives in a monastery] DC 19
Inza Nelson supporting character
CBR Scale: S occult
[Kent Nelson's wife] DC 79
Nabu the Wise Nabu the Wise
(behind the scenes)
supporting character deity
CBR Scale: D Lord of Order
The Lords of Order DC 43
The Lords of Order The Lords of Order
(behind the scenes) 
supporting character group deity
CBR Scale: M cosmic entity
[1st app: DC Special Series #10 (Apr. 1978)] DC 44