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Icon #19 (Nov. 1994):
“Swing Down Sweet Chariot, Stop and Let Me Ride”
by Dwayne McDuffie, M. D. Bright, Mike Gustovich, Hector Collazo, etc.

Icon #19

Title: “Swing Down Sweet Chariot, Stop and Let Me Ride”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Nov. 1994

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


12 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
Hardware Hardware (Curtis Metcalf) hero
  black; The Shadow Cabinet DC Milestone Media 97
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
D'amsi D'amsi supporting character villain group
CBR Scale: S alien
D'amsi
[interstellar police force]
DC Milestone Media 3
Nebraska MacCullum supporting character
  [police] DC Milestone Media 2
Bulletproof Bulletproof villain
  black DC Milestone Media 2
Christina supporting character
  [1st app: Icon #19 (Nov. 1994)] DC Milestone Media 3
Joe Homily supporting character
  [1st app: Icon #19 (Nov. 1994)] 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: Mothership Connection (May 2010): "Swing Down Sweet Chariot, Stop and Let Me Ride"

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=203&):

Icon is excited to be going home. Bulletproof is starting a crime spree but is confronted by Rocket. Augustus reveals his secret to Saul Katz (fellow lawyer) and begins to set up some trust funds. Lt. Nebraska MacCullum has revealed the Big Bang. Icon tells Katz why he is going home. Static helps Icon catch Bulletproof. MacCullum decides to confront Augustus with the task of uncovering the truths behind the Big Bang.