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Blood Syndicate #3 (June 1993):
“Blood Battle”
by Ivan Velez Jr., Dwayne McDuffie, ChrisCross, Mike Gustovich

Blood Syndicate #3

Title: “Blood Battle”

Medium: comic

Cover date: June 1993

Publisher: DC Milestone Media
Written by: Ivan Velez Jr., Dwayne McDuffie
Art by: ChrisCross, Mike Gustovich


19 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 Brickhouse (Marta) hero
  black; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 40
Edwin Alva Edwin Alva villain scientist
CBR Scale: M obsessed with power
System DC Milestone Media 39
Third Rail Third Rail (Pui Chung) hero
  Asian; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 44
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
Alva Technologies Alva Technologies villain group
  [corrupt company run by Hardware arch-foe Edwin Alva] DC Milestone Media 25
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
Masquerade Masquerade hero
  black; Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 31
Tech-9 Tech-9 (Rolando Texador) hero
  black; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 22
Blood Syndicate Blood Syndicate hero group
  [gang] DC Milestone Media 61
Dogg Dogg hero
CBR Scale: M uplifted animal
Blood Syndicate; dog
[normal dog made intelligent by Big Bang Q-Juice]
DC Milestone Media 37
System System villain group
  [international conspiracy; controls most of civilized world] DC Milestone Media 25
SYSTEMatics SYSTEMatics villain group
  System
[operatives in massive exo-skeletons]
DC Milestone Media 11
Rats of Undertown Rats of Undertown villain group
CBR Scale: D uplifted animals
rat
[members: Black Rat, Scratch, Stripe Rat]
DC Milestone Media 12
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

Text on cover: "The Boogieman'll get you if you don't watch out!"

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=58&):

Rob Chaplik learns that police blew up the Paris Island bridge. We are fully introduced to Mom and the Cross Station System. The Syndicate comes to the rescue of BoogieMan and Brickhouse. The BoogieMan joins the Syndicate as thet get ready to attack the Cross System headquarters which is a hospital.