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Icon Comics; Industry: Publishing: Predecessor: Epic Comics: Founded: 2004: Defunct: 2017: Products: Comic books: Owner: Marvel Comics (The Walt Disney Company) Website: Official website
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Icon Comics is an imprint of Marvel Comics that was started in 2004, with the release of Powers #1 and Kabuki #1, after both titles had moved from Image Comics. Much like the earlier imprint Epic Comics, Icon features creator-owned properties. The Kick-Ass property from Mark Millar and John...
- Who Is Icon About? Icon's status as a reluctant hero prompted a unique question: who was the series rally about? Icon, or his sidekick, Rocket? It's not a question ever asked of Batman or Robin for instance.
- Crossing Over. When Icon first appeared, he and the rest of the Milestone Comics characters existed in their own universe apart from DC, somewhat like Vertigo, separate from the main continuity.
- Unexpected Politics. Augustus Freeman IV threw readers for a curve back in 1993 by being a political conservative. His views on social and economic issues put him at odds with pretty much everybody else in the Dakotaverse, Rocket in particular, who all more or less held liberal views rooted in action.
- Mercenary Man. Icon wasn't the only character in Milestone Comics to call back to other prominent superheroes and villains. One of the best - and just plain fun - was Buck Wild, the Mercenary Man.
Oct 20, 2022 · Icon Comics. Icon was the imprint Marvel used for creator-owned work for most of the 2000s. Icon had some notable successes, including most famously Kick-Ass. After Brian Michael Bendis left Marvel and moved all of his creator owned work to DC, the imprint went dormant. Icon books have no connection to the Marvel Universe or its heroes. MAX
Icon Comics is an imprint of Marvel Comics for creator-owned titles.
Icon is the superhero persona of Arnus aka Augustus Freeman, and member of the Terminan alien race. He crash-landed on Earth in the American South in 1839; Raised as a slave,...
Icon is a fictional superhero appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, one of the headline characters introduced by Milestone Media in the 1990s. A being from another planet, he has taken on the form of an African American man, and has abilities such as flight, super-strength, and invulnerability.
