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Icon #10 (Feb. 1994):
“The Fire This Time”
by Dwayne McDuffie, M. D. Bright, Mike Gustovich

Icon #10

Title: “The Fire This Time”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Feb. 1994

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


27 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
Static Static (Virgil Hawkins) hero
  black; Heroes...  DC Milestone Media 148
Dharma Dharma (Harry Chawney) villain hero
CBR Scale: M prophet
The Shadow Cabinet (leader) DC Milestone Media 32
Xombi Xombi (David Kim) hero scientist
  Asian; Organitek... 
[Korean-American]
DC Milestone Media 35
Hardware Hardware (Curtis Metcalf) hero
  black; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 97
Plus Plus (Bina and Apurna Chawney) hero
  Asian; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 15
Ash Ash villain
  The Shadow Cabinet; The Star Chamber DC Milestone Media 5
Rainsaw Rainsaw villain
  The Star Chamber DC Milestone Media 2
Donner Donner (Gerri Brauer) hero
  Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 35
Sideshow Sideshow (Ramon Rand) hero
  The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 16
Slag villain
  The Star Chamber DC Milestone Media 4
Twilight Twilight hero
  The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 10
Blitzen Blitzen (Valerie Kameya) hero
  Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 36
Wytch villain
  The Shadow Cabinet; The Star Chamber DC Milestone Media 2
Iron Butterfly Iron Butterfly (Kahina Eskandari) hero
  The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 28
Holocaust Holocaust (Leonard Smalls) villain
  black; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 43
Headmaster villain
  The Shadow Cabinet; The Star Chamber (leader) DC Milestone Media 4
Sergeant Elliot supporting character
  S.H.R.E.D. (leader) DC Milestone Media 3
Sandra Ervin Sandra Ervin supporting character
  black
[mother of Rocket (Raquel Ervin)]
DC Milestone Media 10
S.H.R.E.D. S.H.R.E.D. supporting character group
  [Dakota City's elite tactical police force] DC Milestone Media 8
Sharon Hawkins Sharon Hawkins supporting character
  black
[Static's sister]
DC Milestone Media 61
The Star Chamber The Star Chamber
(flashback)
villain group
  [operative] DC Milestone Media 7
The Shadow Cabinet The Shadow Cabinet
(flashback)
hero group
  [1st app: Hardware #11 (Jan. 1994)] DC Milestone Media 33
Harm Harm (Nick Pugleise) hero
  The Coalition; The Shadow Cabinet... 
[govt. agent undercover posing as enforcer]
DC Milestone Media 15
Mafia Mafia
(mentioned) 
villain group real/historical person
  [crime syndicate] Marvel DC 118
Amistad Augustus Ervin Amistad Augustus Ervin
(mentioned) 
supporting character
  black
[child of teenage mom super-heroine Rocket]
DC Milestone Media 6

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=194&):

We learn of Rocket and Icon's role in the Shadow War. Icon is upset with Holocaust. Icon investigates the power base that Holocaust has built within the Dakota mafia. Raquel meets Virgil Hawkins (Static) as her mom confronts her on her pregnancy. Icon confronts Holocaust at the Hot Spot. Holocaust is pummeled by Icon. Holocaust takes more of the Quantum Juice to gain more power after the beating.