Vic Sage

Vic Sage: 1974 - 1999
Vic Sage was born Charles Victor Zsasz in Gotham City, the first son of Victor Charles Zsasz, a man who left Charles and his mother in the middle of the night. Charles’ mother would succumb to a sickness and Charles was placed in the care of an orphanage when authorities could not track down his father. Charles would go on to grow up into a teen orphan with a reputation as a troublemaker, priding himself in defiantly enduring the physical abuse of the orphanage’s overseers. When he was fifteen, Charles’ father would track him down and bring him home. Though pleased to find his father still among the living, Charles would struggle to find a place in his father’s new family with a stepmother that doted on Charles’ troubled half-brother (confusingly named Victor Charles Zsasz, Jr.- their father was not a creative man apparently) while having no interest in Charles’ own accomplishments.

Despite lacking his parents’ encouragements, Charles managed to get into college, but higher learning did not mellow his violent tendencies, In his first summer reprieve from college, Charles brutally beat a drug dealer for giving his younger brother LSD, which would forever cause a rift between the brothers. This ultimately would fester over the next couple of years until the two threw down on their parent’s front lawn during their father’s birthday. Ashamed that he put his brother in the hospital, Charles exiled himself from his own family.

Cut off from his family, Charles almost had to drop out of college but a professor named Aristotle Rodor believed in Charles and helped Charles apply for student loans and grants that would help him finish his education. Rodor would even let Charles live in a spare room of his own home. After graduating from Metropolis University (where he nursed an unrequited crush on fellow student Lois Lane), Charles made his mark as a highly outspoken and aggressive reporter for the Daily Planet. In 1999, Charles was offered a position as host of an investigative television series for GBS News. While awaiting the debut of his series, Charles received word that his parents had been murdered.

The Question: 1999 -
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Trivia and Quotes

 * The Question joined the Justice League in 2004 nominated by Batman. Her position was later given in 2012 to Renee Montoya.
 * This version of the character is unique to Earth-27 as Roy has taken certain liberties with the character, particularly in his relation to a certain tally-loving serial killer. In the comics, his actual surname is spelled "Szasz".

Links and References

 * Appearances of Vic Sage
 * Character Gallery: Vic Sage