Comic Title: Question:Epitaph for a Hero TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2009
On Sale Date: November 5, 2008 Direct Market Date October 22, 2008
Source: Previews, #238

Direct Market Date November 5, 2008
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Cover Price: $19.99
Page Count: 176
Editor: Anton Kawasaki

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Epitaph for a Hero"
Pages: 27

Feature(s):
Question (Post-Crisis)

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

Reprinted From:
Question #15 (1988)

Feature Character(s)

• Question (last appearance in Question #14; next appearance in Question #16)

Supporting Character(s)

• Myra Fermin (last appearance in Question #14; next appearance in Question #16)
• Aristotle Rodor (last appearance in Question #13; next appearance in Question #17)

Villain(s)

• Jack Figlia (no further appearances)
• Bernard Havins (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Loomis McCarthy (a private investigator; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Royal Dinsmore (a mayoral candidate; next appearance in Question #19)
• Lou (a police officer; no further appearances)
• Several murder victims (Marcus Aintree, William Glotter, Rudolph Carter, and Andrew Cale named; no further appearances)
• A production assistant (last appearance in Question #13; next appearance in Question #21)

Synopsis:
Vic Sage begins investigating a series of murders. All the victims are black. When a racist private investigator, Loomis McCarthy, shows up in town, Vic is suspicious. When he searches McCarthy's room as the Question, Vic is attacked by a black man. He escapes, but not before linking McCarthy to a white supremacist organization.

Vic traces the gun used against him to Jack Figlia. After another murder, the Question follows McCarthy to Figlia. The P.I. was hired by Caleb Philips, the leader of the white supremacist, to determine if the killings were connected to their group. Instead he determines that Figlia is using the killings to discredit his former business partner and mayoral candidate Royal Dinsmore.

Figlia sends Bernard Havins, the killer in his employee, to kill McCarthy. Instead, the P.I. kills Havins. Figlia escapes before the Question can stop him. Vic Sage gives his report on the local news. McCarthy comes to congratulate Vic, but Sage wants nothing to do with the racist. Figlia then breaks in to shoot Sage. McCarthy steps in front of the bullet and is killed. Some call the P.I. a hero for saving Vic, but the reporter is upset that his life was saved by a racist.