Comic Title: Question #25
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: February 1989
On Sale Date: January 10, 1989 Copyright Date January 10, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Shipping Date December 6, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #11

Shipping Date December 8, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #153

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

Title: "Skells"
Pages: 27

Feature(s):
Question (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Dennis J. O'Neil
Penciller: Denys B. Cowan
Inker: Malcolm Jones III
Letterer: Willie Schubert
Colorist: Tatjana Wood

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

Feature Character(s)

• Question (last appearance in Question #24; next appearance in Invasion #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Aristotle Rodor (last appearance in Question #24; next appearance in Question #26)
• Myra Fermin (last appearance in Question #24; next appearance in Question #26)
• Finch (last appearance in Question #24; no further appearances)
• Isadore O'Toole (last appearance in Question #23; next appearance in Question #26)

Villain(s)

• Wesley Fermin (dies in this story; last appearance in Question #24; no further appearances)
• Several muggers and small-time crooks (no further appearances)
• Willy Sundert (Fermin's supporter; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Jerry Thatcher (a reporter; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• A mugging victim and Louie (her husband; no further appearances)
• A production assistant (last appearance in Question #21; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Question #24.

Synopsis:
After shooting his wife Myra at a press conference, Wesley Fermin also kills a reporter, then escapes. The shooting triggers a wave of chaos across the city which include riots. The police have a hostage situation in which they've cornered a looter who shot a cop.

Vic Sage is upset and blames himself for the death of reporter Jerry Thatcher. Jerry only attended the press conference because he didn't want to go. Myra is taken to the hospital and lies in critical condition. Technically, if she dies, Fermin becomes mayor again, though this is obviously complicated by the fact that he shot her.

The Question takes to the streets and begins fighting random battles while searching for Fermin. He tracks the drunken mayor to Willy Sundert, but a leg wound slows him down. Fermin, in his stupor, heads to the scene of the hostage crisis. He crosses the police line and is shot, but in doing so he also ends the standoff.