Icon: A Hero's Welcome
Title: “By Their Own Bootstraps”
Medium: comic
Cover date: Jan. 1996
Publisher:
11 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. |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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The Shadow Cabinet | |
73 | |||||
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black; The Shadow Cabinet...  [Icon's partner] |
|
58 | ||||||
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[1st app: Icon #1 (May 1993)] | |
2 | ||||||
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S.H.R.E.D. (leader) | |
3 | ||||||
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black [mother of Rocket (Raquel Ervin)] |
|
10 | ||||||
|
[1st app: Icon #1 (May 1993)] | |
3 | ||||||
|
|
[attorney] | |
4 | |||||
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[1st app: Icon #1 (May 1993)] | |
3 | ||||||
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[Dakota City's elite tactical police force] | |
8 | ||||||
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[with Raquel (who became Rocket), tried to rob Icon's house] | |
8 | ||||||
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black [Icon's adoptive mother (in 1839)] |
|
8 |
This comic was reprinted from: Icon #1 (May 1993): "By Their Own Bootstraps".
This trade paperback collects the first eight issues of the original Icon series. For more information please see those descriptions. This book contains a foreword by Reginald Hudlin. A new printing volume was published in September 2009.
Notes from original source:
Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=9&):
We see the crash landing of an alien in 1839. Augustus Freeman (alien) is introduced. Raquel and Noble are introduced as they attempt a burglary of Freeman's house. The abilities of Freeman are shown as he captures Raquel and her friends. Raquel convinces Freeman to become the hero Icon and the characters Rocket and Icon are born.
