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Icon #4 (Aug. 1993):
“Great Expectations”
by Dwayne McDuffie, M. D. Bright, Mike Gustovich

Icon #4

Title: “Great Expectations”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Aug. 1993

Publisher: DC Milestone Media
Written by: Dwayne McDuffie
Art by: M. D. Bright, Mike Gustovich


18 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.
Icon Icon (Augustus Freeman)
(lead character)
hero
CBR Scale: I alien
The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 73
Rocket Rocket (Raquel Ervin) hero
  black; The Shadow Cabinet... 
[Icon's partner]
DC Milestone Media 58
Brickhouse Brickhouse (Marta) hero
  black; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 40
Third Rail Third Rail (Pui Chung) hero
  Asian; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 44
Payback Payback (Kevin Franklin) hero
  Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet
[man-mountain]
DC Milestone Media 30
Boogieman Boogieman (Martin Berger) hero
CBR Scale: S Jewish
Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 44
Wise Son Wise Son (Hannibal White) hero
CBR Scale: S Black Muslim (Nation of Islam)
black; Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 59
Saul Katz supporting character
CBR Scale: U Jewish
[attorney] DC Milestone Media 4
Rocket Darnice supporting character
  [Rocket's close friend; temporarily replaced her as "Rocket"] DC Milestone Media 10
Rob Chaplik Rob Chaplik supporting character
  Blood Syndicate (ally) DC Milestone Media 10
DMZ DMZ hero
  black; Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 57
Fade Fade (Carlos Quinones Jr.) hero
CBR Scale: S LGBT
black; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 56
Flashback Flashback (Sara Quinones) hero
  Blood Syndicate; Force Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 53
Blood Syndicate Blood Syndicate hero group
  [gang] DC Milestone Media 61
Dakota Chronicle supporting character group
  [newspaper] DC Milestone Media 2
Josh Thompson supporting character
  G.R.I.N.D. DC Milestone Media 2
G.R.I.N.D. supporting character group
  [1st app: Blood Syndicate #3 (June 1993)] DC Milestone Media 2
Amistad Augustus Ervin Amistad Augustus Ervin
(mentioned) 
supporting character
  black
[child of teenage mom super-heroine Rocket]
DC Milestone Media 6

Reprints of this comic:
Icon: A Hero's Welcome (Jan. 1996): "Great Expectations"

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=188&):

Raquel agonizes over the thought of being pregnant. Augustus considers the problem of the Big Bang and investigates the problem of that evening. Augustus tries to talk to Rob Chaplik, but she is too scared of the Syndicate. Raquel confirms that she is pregnant. Icon searches for the Syndicate and confronts Wise Son. The Blood Syndicate follows.