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You read that headline right! Comics legend and Milestone comics co-founder Denys Cowan‘s original art pieces, twenty seven (27) in in total have gone missing! Said pieces were to be used in the “Milestones: African Americans In Comics, Pop Culture and Beyond”
In a followup to one of our most controversial news pieces ever [check it out here] comes this follow-up from Michael Davis, one of the founders of Milestone comics in response to Dawud, creator of Brotherman. Again this is verbatim, nothing added or
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
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
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
First Appearance: Blood Syndicate #1, April 1993 Publisher: Milestone Comics Created by: Dwayne McDuffie, Ivan Velez Jr. and Denys Cowan Nationality: Jamaican Weight: Variable Height: Variable Eyes: Variable Hair: Variable Known Relatives: Older Brother (Deceased), Unnamed Mother,
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.
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!
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, INC. First Appearance: Blood Syndicate #1, April 1993 Created by: Dwayne McDuffie, Ivan Velez Jr. and Denys Cowan Nationality: American Weight: 176 lbs Height: 5’9 Eyes: unknown Hair: unknown Relatives: unknown Notes: Whether
Real Name: Rolando Texador Publisher: Milestone Comics First Appearance: Blood Syndicate #1, April 1993 Created by: Dwayne McDuffie, Ivan Velez Jr. and Denys Cowan Nationality: Puerto Rican Weight: 195 lbs Height: 5’11 Eyes: Black Hair: Black
While it’s no ‘shock” that a new Static series will be coming to DC comics in after all it’s been talked about before but since it’s been “Officially announced” via DC’s blog, The Source, it’s big news 😛 Henderson had this to
Publisher: Milestone Media Created by: Dwayne McDuffie and Denys Cowan 1st appearance: Hardware #1, 1993 Real Name: Curtis “Curt” Metcalf Nationality: American Aliases: Black Iron Man, Cog in the machine, Hardware 2.0, Alva’s successor Team Affiliations: Shadow Cabinet Legal Status: US citizen with no
This first-ever HARDWARE collection introduces inventor/engineer Curt Metcalf, who begins his adventures by breaking free of his employer, businessman Edwin Alva, who refused to share the profits from Metcalf’s many creations. Discovering that Alva is tied to organized crime, and learning that