Alter Ego: Charles Victor "Vic" Sage
Occupation: Newscaster/reporter for WWB, later KBEL-TV, sometime professional poker player, bodyguard.
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Orphaned at birth.
Group Affiliation: Sentinels of Justice (formerly)
Base of Operations: Crown City (formerly); Hub City
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 185 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Reddish-blonde
First Appearance (Historical): Charlton Comic's Blue Beetle #1

Vic Sage, a.k.a. Charles Victor Szasz was raised in a Catholic orphanage unaware of his parentage or birthrights. This may have been one of the contributing factors behind Vic's lack of satisfaction with his later life. Most of Vic's teenage/early 20s were spent trying to find that satisfaction in his moving from city to city. He found satisfaction for awhile in Crown City where he was a hardnosed journalist with TV station WWB. Here, he reformed a friendship with Professor Aristotle "Tot" Rodor, who helped him form the identity of the Question. He fought for 4 years in Crown City against crime with his own brand of black-and-white justice, taking down wrongdoers with a bit more objectiveness that he put into his newscasts. Myths spread like wildfire through the streets of Crown City, and just mention of the Question, the man-with-no-face, with his dedicated crimefighting and mysterious calling cards was enough to strike fear into the hearts of any corrupt criminal.

However, after transferring to KBEL-TV in Hub City, and being almost killed in a retaliation by the corrupt government of Hub City, Vic was forced to re-think his life, and with the assistance of Lady Shiva, found a year-long spiritual rejuvenation under the Taoist tutelage of wheelchair-ridden(?) martial arts master Richard Dragon. Returning to Hub City almost a year later, Vic was a different man, and destroyed the government run by drunken Mayor Wesley Fermin and his puppetmaster Rev. Jeremiah Hatch. Sage's former girlfriend Myra Conelly had been duped into marrying Fermin in the year that Vic had dissapeared, and when Hatch threatened to kill Myra's daughter Jackie (who was, at the time, growing up in the same orphanage that Vic grew up in), Myra ran him through with a nearby knife. A fire that burned down the mayor's mansion destroyed the evidence, but Myra was still bound to her marriage to Fermin. Vowing to help her clean up the city, and still sticking by his pledge against crime, Vic decided to stay on in Hub City.

In his term as the city's protector, Vic witnessed the possible effects of a father's negativity, a saint-like doctor living by the term "an eye for an eye," a renegade squadron of special force agents, and various gang wars and drug cartels. As Mayor Fermin's term dwindled, Myra decided to run for mayor herself, and later won. However, as she gave her acceptance speech, her husband attacked her and near-fatally wounded her. She entered a coma, and Fermin, charging in drunken rage into a hostage situation later that day, died a hero. Myra later recovered, and Vic helped her more than ever to keep Hub City clean. The odds just seemed stacked against them though, and Vic, Myra, and Myra's young daughter decided to leave Hub City behind them. Even as she approached the helicopter though, Myra realized that she couldn't leave behind her mayorial duties, so she entrusted care of her daughter Jackie to Vic. Sage continued his excursions as the Question in the depths of the Amazon while at the same time raising the young girl. With Jackie, he found more happiness than ever before, but it was short lived as she died of natural conditions related to her retarded mental growth. Vic went back to Hub City, but now moves from burg to burg, wherever crime rears it's ugly head, wherever inustices threaten the common man, wherever there is a need for The Question!

A mask (which he keeps in his belt buckle), and chemically-coated clothing that bond to his face, and change colors respectively when a special gas is released (also from his buckle). The gas itself can be used as a smokescreen, or even a scare tactic.

LIST OF APPEARANCES Vic Sage appeared in the following issues: Blue Beetle #1-5 (Charlton, 1967-1968) Mysterious Suspense #1 (Charlton, 1968) Charlton Bullseye #5 (Charlton, 1976) Charlton Bullseye Vol. 2 #1 (Charlton, 1981) Americomics Special #1 (Americomics, 198?) Crisis on Infinite Earths mini-series (1986) History of the DC Universe Book 2 (1986) Blue Beetle #5-7 (DC, 1986) The Question #1-36 (1986-1990) The Question Annuals #1-2 (1989-1990) Green Arrow Annuals #1-3 (1989-1991) The Question Quarterly #1-5 (1991-1992) Detective Comics Annual #1 (1989) Brave and the Bold mini-series #1-6 (1991) Showcase '95 #4 (1995) The Question Returns (1995) Kingdom Come #2 (1996) Azrael Plus The Question #1 (1996) Adventures in the DC Universe #8 (1997) Steel #38 (1997) The Batman Chronicles #15 (1998)