Comic Title: Question #17
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: June 1988
On Sale Date: March 8, 1988 Shipping Date March 8, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #2

Shipping Date March 8, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #136

Copyright Date March 8, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date February 9, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #1
Listing dates were out of sequence

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

Title: "A Dream of Rorschach"
Pages: 28

Feature(s):
Question (Post-Crisis)

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

Reprinted In:
Question:Epitaph for a Hero TPB (2009)
Watchmen Companion HC (2020)
Question by Dennis O'Neil and Denys Cowan Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2022)

Feature Character(s)

• Question (last appearance in Question #16; next appearance in Question #18)

Supporting Character(s)

• Aristotle Rodor (last appearance in Question #15; next appearance in Question #19)

Villain(s)

• Butch Cassidy and Sundance (Butch uses the alias Robert Leroy Parker in this story; last appearance in Question #16; next appearance in Question #18)
• Eddie and Skinny (next appearance in Question #18)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Green Arrow (last appearance in Green Arrow #4; next appearance in Question #18)

Other Character(s)

• Mr. Hilkey (a senior citizen; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• A nurse (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Loomis McCarthy (in Vic Sage's dream)
• Rorschach (in Vic's dream)

Comments:
Vic Sage reads the Watchmen graphic novel in this story. He identifies with Rorschach whose character is based on the Question.

This story is continued from Question #16 and continues in Question #18.

Synopsis:
Vic Sage visits the city correctional facility when he learns that a lawyer from Seattle has come to defend the assassin who tried to kill Izzy O'Toole. While Vic is waiting, the lawyer breaks Sundance, the assassin, out of jail using plastic guns he smuggled past security. Vic pursues the crooks who make their escape in a helicopter. Vic clings to the landing gear, but eventually he falls off. His fall is broken by an old man who is killed when Vic lands on him.

Following the incident, Vic pieces together clues about the crooks. The phony lawyer used the name Robert Leroy Parker which was the real name of Butch Cassidy. Vic then flies to Seattle to find Butch and Sundance. After questioning an informant in a Seattle bar, Vic is assaulted by the man. Vic barely survives the fight.

The next day Vic becomes the Question and finds the man who attacked him. He demands answers about Parker's whereabouts. However, a second man takes him from behind. The two men, Eddie and Skinny, then take the Question into the mountains to dispose of him. Vic escapes and leads them on a chase in the snow. He is rescued by the Green Arrow.