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Real Name: Paul Morris Publisher: Milestone Comics Created by: Dwayne McDuffie 1st appearance: Static #9, 1993 Team Affiliations: None Legal Status: Unknown Height: 6’3 Weight: 210 lbs Eyes: Brown Hair: Unknown Relatives: Unknown Skills and abilities: Unknown Powers: Biological Fission
Created by: Dwayne McDuffie First Appearance: Icon #22, 1996 Nationality: American Team Affiliations: none Legal Status: Unknown Weight: 195 lbs Height: 5’10 Eyes: Black Hair: Black Relatives: Unknown Skills and Abilities: Longtime Pimp, Leadership, Commands the ho-hordes- a group of
Created by Dwayne McDuffie and Denys Cowan. 1st appearance: Icon #7, 1993 Nationality: American Legal Status: No criminal record Weight: 110 lbs Height: 5’7 Eyes: Black Hair: Black Known Relatives: Augustus Freeman/Icon (Husband), unborn child (deceased), Miriam
Early History Milestone Comics/Milestone Media was created by Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis, and Derek T. Dingle. as a response to mainstream comics’ lack of diversity as it relates to the use and execution of minority superheroes. Noteworthy scribe Christopher Priest
When a superhero sidekick finds out she’s pregnant, will she keep it or…….. Courtesy of Dwayne Mcduffie comes this touching tale of a teenage superhero faced with a life altering decision!! Summary Icon explains his origins to rocket but she doesn’t believe
Real Name: Charles Bell Publisher: Milestone Comics Created by: Dwayne McDuffie 1st appearance: Static #2, 1993 Team Affiliations: None Legal Status: Unknown Height: 5’9 Weight: 210 lbs Eyes: Brown Hair: Unknown Relatives: Unknown Skills and abilities: Skilled marksman. Powers: Altered
Publisher: Milestone Comics Created by: Dwayne McDuffie 1st appearance: Static #33, 1996 Nationality: Dakota Team Affiliations: Short lived Bang baby team Legal Status: Dakotaverse citizen with criminal record Height: Variable Weight: Unknown Eyes: Green Hair: Black Relatives: Unknown Skills and abilities: Street fighting
Created by: Dwayne McDuffie First Appearance: Icon #30, 1995 Nationality: American Team Affiliations: none Legal Status: Unknown Weight: 220 lbs Height: 6’3 Eyes: Brown Hair: none Relatives: Unknown Skills and abilities: Skilled self taught engineer. Powers: Mutated into a giant cockroach
Publisher: Milestone Media Created by: Dwayne McDuffie, Matt Wayne and John Paul (JP) Leon 1st appearance: Shadow Cabinet #7, 1994 Real Name: Stella Maxwell Nationality: American Team Affiliations: Shadow Cabinet Legal Status: Unknown Height: 5’8 Weight: 120 lbs
Publisher: Milestone Media Created by: Dwayne McDuffie First Appearance: Icon#13, 1994 Real name: Rufus T. Wild Nationality: American Team Affiliations: Icon and Rocket II Alias: Mercenary Man, Buck Goliath, Jim Crow, Buck Lightning, Icon II, Buck Voodoo Legal Status: U.S citizen with criminal
Summary Icon is about to be done in when Rocket comes to the rescue. She holds her own briefly before being overwhelmed and Icon saves her. They all call a truce and Icon speaks with DMZ about being stranded on the planet.
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Summary Rocket laments that her life may have just become a best seller, superhero, expecting a baby, and her Grandmother has found out she’s pregnant and her mother will pretty seen as well. Elsewhere Icon and Blood Syndicate fight and He recognizes
Meet the invulnerable Muslim superhero, WISE SON! Created by the great Dwayne McDuffie!
Summary Rocket tries to convince herself that she could not possibly be pregnant. She continues doing her heroics then meets up with a friend and they discuss what needs to be done, get a pregnancy test! They go to the store and
Publisher: Milestone Media, INC. First Appearance: Icon #4, 1993 ;becomes Rocket in Icon #22, 1995 Created by: Dwayne McDuffie and Mark Bright. Code Name: Rocket Nationality: American Weight: 120 lbs Height: 5’7 Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown
Created by: Dwayne McDuffie First Appearance: Icon #13, 1996 Real Name: Claudine Jones Nationality: American Team Affiliations: none Legal Status: Unknown Weight: 120 lbs Height: 5’7 Eyes: Black Hair: Black Relatives: Unknown Powers: None Skills and abilities: Self trained martial
First Appearance: Blood Syndicate #1, April 1993 Created by: Dwayne McDuffie and Denys Cowan Real Name: Leonard Smalls Jr. Alias: Pyre Nationality: American Team Affiliations: Blood Syndicate and Star Chamber Legal Status: U.S citizen with criminal record Weight: 250 lbs Height: 6’7
Publisher: Milestone Media Created by Kurt Busiek 1st appearance: Static #12 Real Name: Damon Briggs Nationality: American Weight: 172 lbs Height: 5’9 Eyes:Brown Hair: Black Known Relatives: Mr. Briggs (Father), Mother (fate unknown) Skills and abilities:
Summary Our heroes battle the man who now calls himself Payback. Icon at one point gets taken down and Rocket gives chase into the sewers where they continue their battle. Icon meanwhile deals with the rest of the thugs and flies the