Comic Title: Question #26
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: March 1989
On Sale Date: February 7, 1989 Shipping Date February 7, 1989
Source: Direct Currents, #13

Direct Market Date February 9, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #85

Shipping Date January 10, 1989
Source: Direct Currents, #12

Direct Market Date January 12, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #82

Shipping Date January 5, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #155

Copyright Date February 26, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

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

Title: "Riddles"
Pages: 27

Feature(s):
Question (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Dennis J. O'Neil
Penciller: Bill Wray
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 Invasion #2; next appearance in Question #27)

Supporting Character(s)

• Aristotle Rodor (last appearance in Question #25; next appearance in Question #27)
• Myra Fermin (last appearance in Question #25; next appearance in Question #27)
• Isadore O'Toole (last appearance in Question #25; next appearance in Green Arrow Annual #2)

Villain(s)

• Riddler (last appearance in Batman #415; next appearance in Secret Origins Special #1)
• A department store Santa (no further appearances)
• A mugger (no further appearances)
• Sphinx Scromulski (an ex-stripper; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Detective Comics #600; next appearance in Batman #432)

Other Character(s)

• A group of bus passengers (some die in this story; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
The Riddler is released from prison. Commissioner Gordon urges him to go straight. He boards a bus, where he meets Sphinx, an ex-stripper turned criminal. They share stories, then decide to rob the bus passengers.

Before the crooks can make their move, the bus stops to pick up the Question and Tot. Their car broke down on the way out of Hub City. Then Sphinx pulls out a gun and shoots a passenger. The rest of the passengers are told to answer a riddle. If they successfully answer it, they will be set free. One man who doesn't is shot.

The Question then confronts the criminals. He poses more philosophical riddles, rather than the juvenile puns of the Riddler. His talking distracts the crooks and allows him to get close. He disarms Sphinx. She runs and falls to her death in a frozen river. The Question then decides if he should turn the Riddler over to the police.