10 Subtle Changes That SAVED Iconic Comic Book Characters

10. Discovering Philosophy - The Question

Steve Ditko, as revolutionary as he was throughout the silver age, was one of those writers who was best kept on a leash. You take him off that leash, and you get stuff like his original run on The Question, which debuted in Charlton Comics alongside his other creation, his reboot of Blue Beetle.

The main problem with his original Question series was the same problem that cropped up in certain issues of Spider-Man and even Blue Beetle - that being that Ditko was a sucker for Randian Objectivist philosophy. And if you've ever read a single sentence written by Rand, you'll know why it's almost impossible to get through an issue of that original run without your eyes rolling out of your skull.

The solution to this was as simple as just changing writers. So when The Question came to DC Comics post-crisis, the reins were handed to writer Dennis O'Neil.

Overnight, O'Neil metaphysically killed off the original Vic Sage and started anew. And thus, the Question became more of a philosophical figure instead of just a paragon of objectivist philosophy.