Icon Comics

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Icon Comics is an imprint of Marvel Comics for creator-owned titles. It was launched in 2004 with Michael Avon Oeming and Brian Michael Bendis' superhero/detective series Powers, and David Mack's Kabuki moving to the imprint, both from Image Comics. In June 2005 the imprint's third title, J. Michael Straczynski's Dream Police was launched, followed in September by The Book of Lost Souls, also from Straczynski.

Also debuting soon from Icon, is CRIMINAL by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, an ongoing crime comic.

As of mid-2004, there are questions regarding the status of Marvel's Icon trademark against that of Australian comics publisher Icon Comics. There are also some legal issues in the US over the trademark and DC Comics/Milestone Comics' character Icon.

[edit] External links

• ICON home page
• Briefs on the Outside: the Law and Comics - discusses the Icon trademark dispute.