Twilight of the Superheroes

Also of note should be the proposed Alan Moore DC mini-series "Twilight of the Superheroes," reported to be the basis for some of the ideas behind Kingdom Come. Regardless of the project's scrapped status, it should be mentioned that Vic Sage had a small role in Moore's outlined story.

As taken from Jerry Straton's Twilight page:

"The Question is investigating a murder mystery: a midget went to a brothel room with a very tall, beautiful call girl that nobody had ever seen before. When the door was broken down several hours later, the midget was found bound and gagged, his neck broken by a single clean blow. The room was locked with no other exit. The call girl was gone. There was no murder weapon. The Question takes on the part of a nice Rorschach, attempting to solve a murder mystery that holds the key to the unfolding dangers of Twilight."

Vic Sage appeared in the critically-acclaimed DC Elseworlds mini-series Kingdom Come (W: Mark Waid, A: Alex Ross), in issues 1 and 2, very very briefly.

From Sean McQuaid's Kingdom Come #2 Annotations:

"Apart from Blue Beetle, the Question (crusading reporter Vic Sage in his eerie "faceless" Question disguise) is the most significant surviving Charlton character we've seen yet, but he seems to be used only as a background character in this story. His pairing with Rorschach is significant since Rorschach was created as a substitute for the Question in Alan Moore's critically acclaimed Watchmen series, which was originally intended to star the Charlton characters that DC had then just purchased. Rather than waste the characters on the one-shot Watchmen project, DC had Moore create duplicates (like Rorschach) for his Watchmen series. Rorschach is much like the Question, but more violent and mentally unstable."

In Kingdom Come, Vic was a former member of the Justice Battalion whose members inadverdently caused the disaster in Kansas. Other members of the Battalion included Captain Atom, Peacemaker, Judomaster, Nightshade, Katana, and now-leader Magog. Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) was also once a member.