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Icon #7 (Nov. 1993):
“The Moment of Truth”
by Dwayne McDuffie, Erica Helene, M. D. Bright, Mike Gustovich

Icon #7

Title: “The Moment of Truth”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Nov. 1993

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


6 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
Estelle Freeman Estelle Freeman
(flashback)
supporting character
  black
[Icon's late wife; circa WWII to 1977]
DC Milestone Media 2
unnamed mugger villain
  [mugger] DC Milestone Media 1
Doctor Sidhani supporting character
  [doctor] DC Milestone Media 1
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): "The Moment of Truth"

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=191&):

Icon tries to tell Raquel the truth of his origin. She doesn't believe him. Augustus and Raquel discuss the problem of her pregnancy. Raquel decides to keep her baby. She still doesn't believe that the Icon is an alien.