Adventures in the DCU #8
"Well, Here's Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Us Into!"
"Face-Off"
stories by Steve Vance
art by Steve Vance, John Delaney and Ron Boyd
"Another Fine Mess:"
Blue Beetle and Booster Gold travel to Hub City to resurface a research submarine for an unnamed zillionaire. When they get there though, they find a swarm of evil robots terrorizing the city (as if the citizens of Hub didn't have enough to worry about). The villain Cipher seems to be behind everything, and Beetle and Booster barely get away with their lives. When they get to the submarine site, they find that Superman has already stopped by...

"Face-Off:"
Shortly after turning down a job offer from a "media mogul corporate titan slimeball," Vic Sage takes his frustrations out by investigating a crimescene. When two and two add up to make something other than four, Vic tails a suspicious maintenance man right into an attempted terrorist bombing at D.I.T.Co. (Diversified Industrial Toxins), after stopping the badguy's(revealed to be the shape-changing Cipher again) henchmen, The Question has to decide whether to satisfy his curiousity about Cipher's identity or save Hub City from imminent destruction. He of course chooses the latter, and Cipher gets away.