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

Icon: A Hero's Welcome

Title: “Illumination”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Jan. 1996

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


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
Brickhouse Brickhouse (Marta) hero
  black; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 40
Third Rail Third Rail (Pui Chung) hero
  Asian; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 44
Boogieman Boogieman (Martin Berger) hero
CBR Scale: S Jewish
Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 44
Wise Son Wise Son (Hannibal White) hero
CBR Scale: S Black Muslim (Nation of Islam)
black; Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 59
DMZ DMZ hero
  black; Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 57
Fade Fade (Carlos Quinones Jr.) hero
CBR Scale: S LGBT
black; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 56
Flashback Flashback (Sara Quinones) hero
  Blood Syndicate; Force Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 53
Masquerade Masquerade hero
  black; Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 31
Blood Syndicate Blood Syndicate hero group
  [gang] DC Milestone Media 61
Dogg Dogg hero
CBR Scale: M uplifted animal
Blood Syndicate; dog
[normal dog made intelligent by Big Bang Q-Juice]
DC Milestone Media 37

This comic was reprinted from: Icon #6 (Oct. 1993): "Illumination".

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=190&):

Rocket comes to the aid of Icon in his confrontation with the Syndicate. Icon recovers from his beating and stops the fighting. It is confirmed that DMZ is an alien like Icon. Icon learns what the Blood Syndicate knows of the Big Bang.