Happy Black History Month. Here's a splash page from the first issue of Icon, published in 1993 by the then-debuting Milestone Comics (distributed by DC Comics). This first issue was written by the equally iconic Dwayne McDuffie and drawn by M.D. Bright (doing his best imitation of a nineties artist when he was (and is) so much better than that).
I remember watching an MTV segment promoting Milestone Comics where the hero Icon was described as a Clarence Thomas type. Thankfully, that's the only part of the pitch that aged badly, as Icon and much of Milestone's properties (most notably Static Shock) have been integrated as part of DC's mainstream universe.
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