Comic Title: Question #21
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1988
Approx. On Sale Date: August 2, 1988 Copyright Date August 16, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date July 5, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #6

Shipping Date July 5, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760, #762

Shipping Date July 7, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #142

Newsstand Date July 19, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760, #762

Cover Price: $1.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike Gold

Title: "Rejects"
Pages: 27

Feature(s):
Question (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Dennis J. O'Neil
Penciller: Denys B. Cowan
Inker: Dick Giordano
Letterer: Willie Schubert
Colorist: Tatjana Wood

Reprinted In:
Question:Welcome to Oz TPB (2009)
Question by Dennis O'Neil and Denys Cowan Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2022)

Feature Character(s)

• Question (last appearance in Question #20; next appearance in Question #22)

Supporting Character(s)

• Aristotle Rodor (last appearance in Question #20; next appearance in Question #22)
• Finch (last appearance in Question #19; next appearance in Question #23)
• Isadore O'Toole (last appearance in Question #16; next appearance in Question #23)

Villain(s)

• Benno Musto (dies in this story; last appearance in Question #6; no further appearances)
• Junior Musto (last appearance in Question #6; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Ian Angus McVey (in flashback; last appearance in Question #6; no further appearances)
• Cornelius Oiler (a surgeon; no further appearances)
• Several unnamed doctors and nurses (no further appearances)
• Several unnamed police officers (no further appearances)
• Joan Tweakly and members of Vic's high school class (no further appearances)
• A production assistant (last appearance in Question #15; next appearance in Question #25)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Question (last appearance in Question #6; next appearance in Question #7)
• Aristotle Rodor (last appearance in Question #6; next appearance in Question #7)

Synopsis:
While Vic Sage attends his high school reunion, Junior Musto breaks into a hospital and steals a human heart. He takes the heart to his father who is dying in the prison wing of the hospital. Junior forces the doctors to implant the heart in his father, then he asks for the Question.

The police release information to the media which eventually makes its way to Sage. The Question meets with Junior in the hospital. When Benno Musto dies from complications involved with the surgery, Junior plans to kill everyone. The Question tries to talk him out of it. When talking fails, he uses force to subdue Junior.