View Full Version : Did The Question and Blue Beetle meet at Charleton?
samnoir
02-20-2007, 09:27 AM
I know the two characters shared the Ted Kord Blue Beetle's title for five issue, but did the two characters actually ever team-up at any point during the Charleton days?
I always associate the two together because of their first appearances on "Earth 4" in Crisis, The Questions subsequent debut in Blue Beetle's DC title and of course the team of Nite-Owl and Rorscach. I'm starting to suspect that other than sharing Ditko as a creator, did they really have all that much in common in the earliest days of their careers in the sixties?
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Fazhoul
02-20-2007, 09:39 AM
I don't remember the exact issues but I do seem to remember them meeting. I used to have some of the old Charlton Blue Beetle & Captain Atom books. Is anyone else out there old enough to back me up on this?
Garden Gnome
02-20-2007, 10:38 AM
There was an issue of Charleton Bullseye (I believe the title was) that came out in the 70s where they met. It wasn't by Ditko, I think Giordano had a hand in it though I could be mistaken. I remember it not being nearly as cool as I'd wanted it to be though I read this back when I was 10 years old or so (the Wein BB series had me buying all the old stuff that I could find in the 40 cent box).
samnoir
02-20-2007, 03:01 PM
Charleton Bullseye was a fanzine right?
So Beetle and Question never actually teamed up together in the original five issue Ditko run published by Charleton in the sixties?
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NoFace
02-20-2007, 03:15 PM
Vic Sage helped out the Blue Beetle in #5, though not in his identity as the Question:
http://www.vicsage.com/charlton/bb5.php
They actually teamed up in Charlton Bullseye v.2 #1:
http://www.vicsage.com/charlton/bullseye1.php
And they were part of a super-team with the other action heroes in AC Comics' Americomics Special #1:
http://www.vicsage.com/charlton/americomics.php
In the Ditko Blue Beetle books, Blue Beetle was from Hub City, and The Question patrolled nearby Crown City.
Fazhoul
02-20-2007, 04:46 PM
Vic Sage helped out the Blue Beetle in #5, though not in his identity as the Question:
http://www.vicsage.com/charlton/bb5.php
They actually teamed up in Charlton Bullseye v.2 #1:
http://www.vicsage.com/charlton/bullseye1.php
And they were part of a super-team with the other action heroes in AC Comics' Americomics Special #1:
http://www.vicsage.com/charlton/americomics.php
In the Ditko Blue Beetle books, Blue Beetle was from Hub City, and The Question patrolled nearby Crown City.
Wow, detailed sources and everything. Thanks for the info.
NoFace
02-20-2007, 06:03 PM
Wow, detailed sources and everything. Thanks for the info.
You're welcome. Hope you enjoy the site, I spent a lot of time putting it together! If you're a Question fan at all, stop by the forums there and say hello.
And if you're a Blue Beetle fan, stick around for our summer project: A Blue Beetle fansite (http://www.vicsage.com/bluebeetle/).
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