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SUPER HEROES, THE QUESTION VICTOR SAGE?!?! A FREE VERSE POEM
by
Mark Meredith
I bet that there is somebody out in the audience who doesn't think that there could be a crime fighter like the Batman that's had cancer right?
Do you want to hear about a WatchMen-type super hero that is like the detective-hero Rorschach?
Of course you do!
Rorschach Walter Joseph Kovacs was a copy created in the tradition of Vic the Question Sage.
_This very story begins in the following paragraph.
This story begins in the 1940's:
In the 40's there started a third tier comic book company named Charlton, Incorporated.
Charlton, Inc had created comics about vigilantes named the first Blue Beetle, Captain Atom, the Question, Peter Cannon: the Thunderbolt, Nightshade, and the Peacemaker.
Charlton, Inc was kind of a small company: but people still liked their super heroes all the same.
In 1982 Charlton,Inc folded under but by then their heroes were classic super heroes and Superman, Incorporated bought the super heroes off of the bankrupt Charlton, Inc because it would be an injustice if such classic characters had their adventures ended.
The writer of From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: when Moore's comic book company bought the Charlton, Inc characters: Moore wanted to tell a 12 issue series.
It was about these characters: a story about what happened to Charlton,Inc.'s super heroes in the 50's when superheroes were out and people only created Tales from the Crypt-like comic books, westerns comics and World War II war story comic books.
During the 50's every super hero comic book was cancelled save for Clark Superman Kent's, Bruce Wayne The Batman's, Diana Prince's the Wonder Woman's, Arthur Curry's Orin's Aquaman's and William Batson's Shazam's: plus the only super villain that survived the 40's was Edward Nigma the Riddler.
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In the 50's after the Atomic Bomb was created, the U.S. was scared stiff that the seemingly robotically logical, perfect at Olympic sports and space programs: Soviet Union would use communist spies to get the secrets of the Atomic Bomb.
On the Tales from the Crypt-like comic book covers, many Atomic Bomb covers are worth a lot of money now being a sign of the times.
_ The soon-to-be Justice League of America faced Atomic Bombs too.
The Atom Bomb was a big influence on comics.
From then on most super heroes would not get their powers from being from another planet but because of radiation exposure.
_Superman would work for the government: taking photographs of American nuclear testings without being affected by the radiation because of Kent's powers.
_ Kent's origin would be changed so that Krypton wasn't destroyed by, just planet-quakes, but because the center of Krypton was made of uranium and exploded.
The United States of America went on hundreds of witch-hunts.
U.S.-citizen-communists could be spies and even after two United States of America citizens were given the electric chair literally live on radio for saying that it didn't matter what government system they believed in because this is the United States of America: it turned out that U.S.S.R. spies did take the bomb.
The United States of America was even more afraid of global nuclear exchange then.
The U.S. was scared spit-less of a nuclear war.
One Tales from the Crypt company comic book had a science fiction story about how if a human being faked a Martian Atomic Bomb and killed a whole city with the Martian Atomic Bomb that was created on Earth then the Earth's governments would form one government to bomb Mars: creating world peace.
The writer of MiracleMan wanted to do a story: something like that the above before-said: about World War II Charlton, Inc characters dealing with Atomic Bomb age problems of the nineteen-fifty's.
_ Detective Comics Company said that Moore couldn't make such sweeping changes to the Superman Universe or else if the many other comic book series' wanted to be topical and do comic-book issues about the arms race then: the other comic books couldn't do that.
_ D.C. Comics said that Moore could make Moore's own super-heroes based on the Charlton, Inc. characters in Moore's own universe that were owned by Superman Comics Corporation that no other D.C. Comics characters could visit this universe with no name: to this very day: for twelve issues only.
Moore created Dr. Manhattan: a walking hydrogen bomb that was really Captain Atom the living atom bomb.
_ Then Moore created Rorschach who was really Question who was a detective crimefighter that would wear a suit and wear a plastic pink flexible mask that made it look like Question had no mouth, nose, nor eyes.
Moore then made Nightshade the female super hero into Silk Spectre 2, a woman who knew many martial arts.
Moore then made Nite-Owl 2 out of Teddy Kord Blue Beetle who had also replaced an older: first Blue Beetle-type character who wore a mask that only covered the first Blue Beetle's hair, head, edges of Blue Beetle's face and also wore a Robin -type mask to cover Blue Beetle the first's eyes.
Rorschach always wore a white flexible plastic full-facemask over Kovac's head and neck making Rorschach's head and neck look like Rorschach's skin is blank white with no ears, eyes, nose, nor mouth: but Rorschach instead has an inkblot where Rorschach's facial features should be.
More appropriately than Question who is also a detective super hero: Rorschach: wears a trench coat instead of a suit jacket but also wears a fedora hat and slacks.
_ Question like Rorschach also has an encyclopedic knowledge of conspiracy theories but unlike Rorschach: Question is a Democrat wherein Rorschach is not.
That means Question thinks that Republican candidates will only cause more conspiracies and that we the people should govern ourselves.
Meanwhile Rorschach believes that Republicans will help stop conspiracies from happening to us all.
Back in the 60's Question was established as a smoker back when smoking wasn't considered so harmful.
It was strange that such a character that was later established to have a wealth of knowledge about conspiracy theories and yet never knew any conspiracies about cigarette companies.
There was another detective character in Batman's comic books named Renee Montoya (reh-nay).
Montoya was even in the Batman cartoon series inspired by the first Batman movie series.
In comics, Montoya lost her way and was fired from the Gotham Police.
Montoya was drinking a lot every night and having different sexual partners each night.
Someone was watching over Montoya though.
Someone was watching Montoya that knew that Montoya needed a purpose in life and knew that Montoya had the most potential to become a new superhero.
One night a man in a trench coat kicked down Montoya's apartment door and asked one Riddler-like question, "Who are you?!" and left.
Then the man was gone.
The man in the trench coat had no eyes, nose, nor mouth.
Later the man gave Montoya a note with a clue to a crime that he also had.
The note said to watch an abandoned building on Kane Rd.
Montoya found that there was a high tech illegal gun-smuggling operation in the building for the mob.
When Montoya picked the front door lock and stealthily sneaked inside closing and locking the door to see what was going on inside: two criminals happened to see Montoya and she was in a fight with them.
The man with no eyes fought alongside Montoya to beat and defeat the grunts.
_ Question and Montoya found illegal high tech guns smuggling operations going to Kandaq: where in our world Egypt was.
Moreover, when Question and Montoya got to the high mountains Question began Question's coughing.
Montoya was still smoking a pack each day of cigarettes but Question was using the lame excuse: that [he was] having trouble acclimating.
Question had begun coughing a little when Montoya was learning martial arts from Richard Dragon.
Montoya saw Question coughing more while Montoya saw Question talking with Mr. Dragon, but soon while Montoya and Mr. Dragon were sparring, Question was being wracked with coughing attacks that caused Question to double over and lean one hand on one side of the cabins Dr. Tot Aristotle Rodor and Mr. Dragon lived in.
The SPASM-ing cough attack was so extreme that Montoya gave Mr. Dragon a look that said for sure that Montoya knew Question was sick.
Mr. Dragon would make hot tea to help Question and acupuncture treatments to help Question.
Dr. Tot Aristotle Rodor would give him (Question) a-lot of pills and Mr. Dragon would give Question Pressure-point massages but Question was sick and Question wasn't getting any better.
Montoya asked Question if he was dying of cancer because of how Question used to smoke cigarettes and when he answered "Yes," Montoya crumpled up her pack of cigarettes and never smoked again:
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