On 1996's Azrael Plus #1

I hope you guys aren't sick of me talking about DC's 1996-1997 Plus specials just yet. That's because, when taking a closer look at them for last week's post, I discovered Azrael Plus #1, a title that wouldn't have been on my radar at the time, which featured what struck me as an intriguing pairing of character and creator.Now, for most readers, particularly in 1996, I think that character and creator pairing would have been The Question Vic Sage and writer Denny O'Neil. O'Neil was then writing the Azrael ongoing monthly, which would have just finished its second year of publication. It starred a character that O'Neil himself had co-created with artist Joe Quesada, a character who played a major role in the Knightfall/Knightquest/Knightsend cycle of stories in the Batman line of books. But in the late 1980s, O'Neil had written The Question for three years, and that well-regarded title remains the only monthly to star the character (or his successor, Renee Montoya). And here he would…