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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 1743618" data-attributes="member: 505">Steve Ditko created The Question.  I'm not an expert on the character, but, from what I remember, he was Vic Sage, host of an investigative news show.  The Question was his way of bringing to justice those whom he couldn't expose on the show.Ditko was known for weird and surreal stuff (like Dr. Strange), and I think The Question followed that mold.  I don't think he was a full-on X-Files conspiracy theorist, though.  Of course, the character's been around since, I think, the '60s, so it's possible he moved in that direction at some point.Another possiblity is that they modeled him on Ditko, himself.  I've heard vague, strange stories about Ditko.  I've read interviews with pros who've made passing comments about Ditko making "wild accusations" about other comic pros.  It's sad to see, but such things do happen.  Chester Gould, the creator of Dick Tracy, became strange and paranoid in his later years.  At one point in the series, Gould had Tracy become a space cop in a series of Flash Gordon-like adventures.  It was a terrible idea and it bombed badly and several papers dropped the strip.What's strange about it is that Gould anticipated several real life inventions in his strip.  In the space stories, he came up with the idea of having ships being powered by magnetism.  When the space program didn't follow suit, he declared that they government knew about magnetic powered vehicles and was covering it up.  I think he even blamed the dropping of Dick tracy from certain papers to some sort of conspiracy.</blockquote>

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