Comic Title: Question #18
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: July 1988
On Sale Date: April 5, 1988 Shipping Date April 5, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #2

Copyright Date April 5, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date April 5, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #752

Shipping Date March 8, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #137
Listing erroneously uses the date for #17

Newsstand Date April 19, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #752

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

Title: "Desperate Ground"
Pages: 27

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)
Question by Dennis O'Neil and Denys Cowan Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2022)

Feature Character(s)

• Question (last appearance in Question #17; next appearance in Question #19)

Guest Star(s)

• Green Arrow (last appearance in Question #17; next appearance in Green Arrow #5)

Villain(s)

• Butch Cassidy and Sundance (last appearance in Question #17; no further appearances)
• Eddie and Skinny (last appearance in Question #17; no further appearances)
• Three unnamed henchmen (no further appearances)
• An unnamed terrorist (in flashback; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A helicopter pilot (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Question #17.

Synopsis:
In the mountains near Seattle, the Question is rescued by Green Arrow who has stowed away in the truck that Eddie and Skinny used to take the Question up the mountain. The crooks are wounded and forced to lead the heroes to the camp where Butch and Sundance are expecting an arms shipment.

During the drive to the camp, Green Arrow refuses to untie the Question because he fears that Vic is another crook. Eventually the Question earns Ollie's trust and together they assault the camp. Ollie and Sundance are involved in a draw. Green Arrow outshoots the killer with his bow and arrow, while the Question dispatches of Butch. The heroes then take their prisoners to shelter to wait out a snowstorm before taking them to the authorities.