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

Icon: A Hero's Welcome

Title: “Entelechy”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Jan. 1996

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

23 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 (Augustus Freeman) (lead character)	alien	The Shadow Cabinet		73
Rocket (Raquel Ervin)		black; The Shadow Cabinet...  The Star Chamber [Icon's partner]		58
Brickhouse (Marta) (flashback)		black; Blood Syndicate...  League of Superteens		40
Third Rail (Pui Chung) (flashback)		Asian; Blood Syndicate...  Korean; League of Superteens		44
Payback (Kevin Franklin) (flashback)		Heroes; The Shadow Cabinet [man-mountain]		30
Boogieman (Martin Berger) (flashback)	Jewish	Blood Syndicate		44
Wise Son (Hannibal White) (flashback)	Black Muslim (Nation of Islam)	black; Blood Syndicate		59
Holocaust (Leonard Smalls)		black; Blood Syndicate...  The Star Chamber		43
Deke (flashback)		[1st app: Icon #1 (May 1993)]		2
Sandra Ervin		black [mother of Rocket (Raquel Ervin)]		10
Lenny (flashback)		[1st app: Icon #1 (May 1993)]		3
The Cooperative (flashback)		[1st app: Icon #1 (May 1993)]		3
S.H.R.E.D. (flashback)		[Dakota City's elite tactical police force]		8
Noble		[with Raquel (who became Rocket), tried to rob Icon's house]		8
Thomasina Jefferson (flashback)		black		14
Fade (Carlos Quinones Jr.) (flashback)	LGBT	black; Blood Syndicate...  Force Syndicate		56
Flashback (Sara Quinones) (flashback)		Blood Syndicate; Force Syndicate...  League of Superteens		53
Masquerade (flashback)		black; Blood Syndicate		31
Blood Syndicate (flashback)		[gang]		61
Estelle Freeman (flashback)		black [Icon's late wife; circa WWII to 1977]		2
The Star Chamber (flashback)		[operative]		7
D'amsi (details)  apparently not identified by name	alien	D'amsi [interstellar police force]		3
Amistad Augustus Ervin (mentioned)  Rocket's mother learns she is pregnant by Noble (with the baby who will be named Amistad months later).		black [child of teenage mom super-heroine Rocket]		6

This comic was reprinted from: Icon #8 (Dec. 1993): "Entelechy".

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=192&):

Raquel gives us a recap of the first six issues. Icon shows Raquel his spaceship to prove his claims of being an alien. Raquel's mother learns that she is pregnant from Noble. We learn the entire story of Icon's origin. Raquel is then approached by Holocaust.

This story was indexed from secondary sources only. The character list above is not necessarily comprehensive. Webpage for Icon: A Hero's Welcome (Jan. 1996) created 28 February 2013. Last modified 6 February 2014.

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