Comic Title: Question #1
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: February 1987
On Sale Date: November 27, 1986 Newsstand Date November 27, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #33

Shipping Date November 4, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #33

Shipping Date November 4, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #104

Shipping Date November 4, 1986
Source: Comics Journal, #111

Copyright Date November 4, 1986
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1986
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike Gold

Title: "The Bad News"
Pages: 28

Feature(s):
Question (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Dennis J. O'Neil
Penciller: Denys B. Cowan
Inker: Rick Magyar
Letterer: Gaspar Saladino
Colorist: Tatjana Wood

Reprinted In:
Question:Zen and Violence TPB (2007)
Question by Dennis O'Neil and Denys Cowan Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2022)

Feature Character(s)

• Question (first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in Question Annual #2; next appearance in Question #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Aristotle Rodor (aka Tot; first appearance; last appearance in Question Annual #2; next appearance in Question #2)
• Myra Fermin (a news anchorwoman; first appearance; next appearance in Question #2)
• Finch (a producer; first appearance; next appearance in Question #6)

Villain(s)

• Lady Shiva (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Question #2)
• Wesley Fermin (mayor of Hub City; next appearance in Question #2)
• Jeremiah Hatch (a reverend; next appearance in Question #2)
• Jake (Hatch's henchman; next appearance in Question #2)
• Donny (next appearance in Question #4)
• Baby Gun (one of Hatch's men; next appearance in Question #12)
• Hatch's men (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Mickey and Ed (a weatherman and a director; no further appearances)
• Moe Fredericks (an informant; no further appearances)
• Milty Cohen (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in Question #2.

Synopsis:
The Question retrieves a video tape that implicates Hub City Mayor Wesley Fermin in a scandal. He airs the tape on television during his newscast as investigative reporter Vic Sage. Fermin and his men try to have Sage killed, but the crimefighter avoids a killer's bullet.

Fermin's advisor Reverend Hatch hires Lady Shiva to deal with Sage. The crooks bait a trap for him at the pier. Sage shows up as the Question and is defeated by Lady Shiva. Fermin's men then beat Sage and shoot him in the head. They dump the body into the water, leaving the Question for dead.