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Icon #17 (Sep. 1994):
“Dues and Don’ts”
by M. D. Bright, Dwayne McDuffie, Mike Gustovich

Icon #17

Title: “Dues and Don’ts”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Sep. 1994

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


9 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
Hardware Hardware (Curtis Metcalf) hero
  black; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 97
Sandra Ervin Sandra Ervin supporting character
  black
[mother of Rocket (Raquel Ervin)]
DC Milestone Media 10
Kelsohn Styvens villain
  [race baiter; accused Icon of being racist] DC Milestone Media 1
Tetras Tetras supporting character
CBR Scale: S alien
D'amsi DC Milestone Media 2
Evane Evane supporting character
CBR Scale: S alien
D'amsi DC Milestone Media 2
D'amsi D'amsi supporting character villain group
CBR Scale: S alien
D'amsi
[interstellar police force]
DC Milestone Media 3
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=201&):

Icon tries to tell Rocket about her baby. Kelsohn Styvens, proclaims that Icon is a racist. He begins and anti-Icon campaign centered on the criminals Icon arrests. Icon retreats from a confrontation with Styvens. Icon diffuses a riot situation and then Hardware shows up with Icon's alien rescue team.