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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published October 1986
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages 36
Editing Karen Berger

Cover Details - "The Question is Back--And the Answer is Murder!"

Characters Blue Beetle [Ted Kord]; The Question [Vic Sage]
Genre superhero
Pencils Paris Cullins
Inks Bruce Patterson

22 page Blue Beetle story "Ask The Right Question!"

Characters Blue Beetle [Ted Kord]; The Question [Vic Sage]; Lou Crocker; The Wild Ones [Brandon; Cisco; Twitch; Pony; Fringe; Slab] (street gang); Jerry (cop); Brent (cop); Vincent Perignon (gangster); Hugo (gangster); The Muse [Richard Perignon]; Rodent (informant for Vic Sage); Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett] (Flashback; Cameo; not in costume); Lt. Max Fisher; Detective Frank Holt; Police Captain Hernandez; Melody Case; Thomas Kord (Cameo; photo)
Synopsis Blue Beetle and the Question are both tracking down a street gang called The Wild Ones. When they realize they are both after the same gang they decide to team up.
Genre superhero
Script Len Wein
Pencils Paris Cullins
Inks Bruce Patterson
Colors Gene D'Angelo
Letters John Costanza
Notes Featuring the DC debut of The Question, the hero who shared the Charlton Blue Beetle Book (He had a 1 panel cameo in Crisis on Infinite Earths #6). Here, the Question is a somewhat standard masked character, as opposed to the off-beat character in the Question's own DC book.

2 page The Beetle's Nest letters page

Script Len Wein
Letters Typeset

1 page Meanwhile... promo (ad from the publisher)

Synopsis Dick Giordano answers a readers questions.
Script Dick Giordano
Letters Typeset