Blood Syndicate #1 (Apr. 1993):
“America Eats Her Young”
by Dwayne McDuffie, Ivan Velez Jr., Trevor Von Eeden, Andrew Pepoy

Blood Syndicate #1

Title: “America Eats Her Young”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Apr. 1993

Publisher:
Written by: Dwayne McDuffie, Ivan Velez Jr.
Art by: Trevor Von Eeden, Andrew Pepoy

14 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Brickhouse (Marta)		black; Blood Syndicate...  League of Superteens		40
Third Rail (Pui Chung)		Asian; Blood Syndicate...  Korean; League of Superteens		44
drug dealers		[occupation]	, etc.	2
Wise Son (Hannibal White)	Black Muslim (Nation of Islam)	black; Blood Syndicate		59
Holocaust (Leonard Smalls)		black; Blood Syndicate...  The Star Chamber		43
Rob Chaplik		Blood Syndicate (ally)		10
DMZ		black; Blood Syndicate		57
Fade (Carlos Quinones Jr.)	LGBT	black; Blood Syndicate...  Force Syndicate		56
Flashback (Sara Quinones)		Blood Syndicate; Force Syndicate...  League of Superteens		53
Masquerade		black; Blood Syndicate		31
Tech-9 (Rolando Texador)		black; Blood Syndicate...  Force Syndicate		22
Blood Syndicate		[gang]		61
Dakota Chronicle		[newspaper]		2
Boogieman (Martin Berger) (cameo)  Sources differ as to whether Boogieman actually appears in this issue (#1), or first appears in the next issue (#2). Most cite #2 as his 1st appearance. If he appears here, it is only a small cameo.	Jewish	Blood Syndicate		44

Text on cover:
"First Issue Collector's Item!
America Eats Its Young"

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=57&):

Reporter Rob Chaplik goes to Paris Island to interview the street gang Blood Syndicate. We are introduced to Brickhouse, Wise Son, Flashback, DMZ, Tech-9, Fade, Holocaust and Masquerade as Rob follows the Syndicate on a raid of a crack house. We see Flashback steal some crack to smoke.

This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. Webpage for Blood Syndicate #1 (Apr. 1993) created 22 November 2012. Last modified 26 December 2013.

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