The Question Returns

(DC, 1997)
™ and © DC Comics

This one-shot title brings Vic Sage back to the institutionalized corruption that is Hub City. By the end of his regular series, Sage’s life had become so intertwined in the affairs of this den of iniquity that he left to discover if he really existed apart from its influence. When he receives information that his former love, Myra Connelly has vanished, The Question’s self-imposed exile ends.

With the possible exception of Shade, the Changing Man, no other character from the mind of Steve Ditko during his Charleton days, underwent such a drastic alteration when translated to the DC universe. Formerly, an adherent to a simplistic black and white code of ethics, The Question became much more introspective under the pen of Denny O’Neil. So much so in fact, that it is said that “The Question series did for transcendentalism what The X-Files did for the macabre: humanized it.” Quite a change for a character who was the template for Rorschach of the Watchmen.

— George Haberberger

Jump to issue:

Notes

Writer

Artist

#1

February, 1997
Cover Price: $3.50
2 copies available from $5.25

Dennis O’Neil

Eduardo Barreto