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Color drawing of the comic book character Icon, owned by Dwayne McDuffie

ca. 1993

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A framed color drawing of the comic book character, Icon, owned by Dwayne McDuffie. The drawing has three distinct parts. The top features three futuristic scenes depicting a space ship crashing. The middle features three scenes depicting slavery and the Civil War. A newspaper with [SLAVE / AUCTION] on it is in the middle of the drawing. The bottom features three distinct scenes. They are of a woman in a photograph, a man getting shot and the characters Icon and Rocket in their costumes.

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Catalog reference: 2019.96.27

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