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Icon #16 (Aug. 1994):
“Ain’t No Such Thing as Superman”
by Dwayne McDuffie, M. D. Bright, Mike Gustovich

Icon #16

Title: “Ain’t No Such Thing as Superman”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Aug. 1994

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


7 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
Superman Superman (Clark Kent) hero
CBR Scale: S Methodist / Kryptonian religion
Kryptonians; Super Friends...  DC 13,409
Rocket Rocket (Raquel Ervin) hero
  black; The Shadow Cabinet... 
[Icon's partner]
DC Milestone Media 58
Rift Rift (Fred Bentson) villain
  [postal worker] DC 4
Jonathan Kent Jonathan Kent supporting character
CBR Scale: S Methodist
[Superman's adoptive father] DC 816
Martha Kent Martha Kent supporting character
CBR Scale: S Methodist
[Superman's adoptive mother] DC 827
Lex Luthor Lex Luthor villain scientist
CBR Scale: S Episcopalian (lapsed); Nietzschean atheist
Injustice League; Secret Six...  DC 1,508

Summary (from http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=200&):

Rift is convinced that he has created two separate universes. He retells both Superman's and Icon's origins. He forces them to fight by telling each of them that he will save their respective city. Superman and Icon battle each other to draw. Rift decides that both universe are fragments of each other and tries to merge the two worlds together.