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Josie
 

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Name: Josie

Classification: supporting character supporting character  

Publisher(s): DC Milestone Media

First Appearance: Icon #12 (Apr. 1994): "Sanctimony"

Creators: Jackie Ching, Wilfred Santiago, Mike Gustovich

Number of Appearances: 1

Ally: Rocket
Ally: Bilbo

Location: Dakota, USA

Gender: female

Note: teen pregnant at same time as her close friend, Rocket

Josie was a good friend of Raquel Ervin, who was secretly the super-heroine Rocket.

Josie's boyfriend Bilbo was a member of a radical pro-life organization known as the Society of the Cross. Bilbo was with this group when they attacked an abortion clinic Josie was at. Rocket had come along as Josie's friend. Rocket was able to put a stop to the group's attack on the abortion clinic.

Josie and Rocket were both teenagers who became pregnant out of wedlock at the same time. Rocket was continuing with the pregnancy, while Josie decided to have an abortion.

Summary of Icon #12 (Apr. 1994), from now-defunct website at http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=196&:

Rocket saves a pro-choice activist from a groups of terrorists. Raquel meets her friend Josie. Josie is also pregnant but has decided to have an abortion. Augustus is deciding whether to act as Gideon's Cord's (prolife organization) attorney. Raquel decides to help Josie. Icon and Rocket stop a terrorist attack, backed by Gideon's Cord, on a hospital. Raquel and Josie are in the clinic the next day when the terrorists attack again, including Josies's boyfriend. Both are stopped.


This character is in the following story which has been indexed by this website:
Icon #12 (Apr. 1994): "Sanctimony"


Suggested links for further research about this character:
  - http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Icon_Vol_1_12