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Icon: A Hero’s Welcome (Jan. 1996):
“Payback”
by Dwayne McDuffie, M. D. Bright, Mike Gustovich

Icon: A Hero's Welcome

Title: “Payback”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Jan. 1996

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


5 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
Payback Payback (Kevin Franklin) hero
  Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet
[man-mountain]
DC Milestone Media 30
S.H.R.E.D. S.H.R.E.D. supporting character group
  [Dakota City's elite tactical police force] DC Milestone Media 8
Thomasina Jefferson Thomasina Jefferson supporting character
  black DC Milestone Media 14

This comic was reprinted from: Icon #3 (July 1993): "Payback".

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=187&):

Payback faces off with Icon and Rocket. Rocket chases after Payback as Icon saves the mayor from terrorists. Payback drops some hints that the Big Bang was a set up (implicates the Mayor). Icon arrests Payback and promises to investigate the Big Bang. Icon tells Raquel that she is pregnant.