Comic Title: Question #8
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: September 1987
On Sale Date: June 23, 1987 Newsstand Date June 23, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #40

Shipping Date June 2, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #119

Copyright Date June 2, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
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: "Mikado"
Pages: 27

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:Poisoned Ground TPB (2008)
DC's Greatest Detective Stories Ever Told TPB (2021)
Question by Dennis O'Neil and Denys Cowan Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2022)

Feature Character(s)

• Question (last appearance in Question #7; next appearance in Question #9)

Supporting Character(s)

• Aristotle Rodor (last appearance in Question #7; next appearance in Question #9)
• Myra Fermin (last appearance in Question #7; next appearance in Question #12)
• Wesley Fermin (last appearance in Question #7; next appearance in Question #12)

Villain(s)

• Mikado (aka Doctor Spaulding; no further appearances)
• Two street punks (no further appearances)
• Dukus (a drug dealer; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Chester Franey (a negligent parent; no further appearances)
• Gordon and his family (no further appearances)
• Doctor Wendel (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
The Question investigates a series of attacks in which the victims were mutilated. He links the victims to Central Medical Hospital. Believing a drug angle is involved he questions the local supplier. He determines that the drug dealers were not responsible for the attacks.

Spaulding, a doctor at the hospital, is the real attacker. He has been punishing people who have hurt others. The Question confronts the doctor and is drugged. While paralyzed the Question admits to harmful acts in his own past and to helping people. The doctor who had planned to kill him, instead injects himself with poison. However, when the Question recovers, Spaulding's body is gone.