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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published April-May 1972
Frequency Bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Jack Kirby

Cover Details - "The Prisoners of the Power!"

Characters Forever People [Mark Moonrider; Big Bear; Beautiful Dreamer; Vykin the Black; Serifan]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Mike Royer
Reprinted in Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) #3; in Jack Kirby's Forever People (DC, 1999 series) #[nn]

26 page Forever People story "The Power!"

Characters Forever People [Mark Moonrider; Big Bear; Beautiful Dreamer; Vykin the Black; Serifan]; The Sect; Billion-Dollar Bates; Desaad; Darkseid
Synopsis Billion-Dollar Bates has used his portion of the Anti-Life Equation that is lodged in his brain to force people to do his will. The Forever People are drawn to him at the same time that Darkseid is attempting to capture him.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Mike Royer
Letters Mike Royer
Reprinted in Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) #3; in Jack Kirby's Forever People (DC, 1999 series) #[nn]

1 page Aurora advertisement "The Cavemen Are Coming"

Letters Typeset
Notes Comic-style advertisement for Aurora's "Prehistoric Scenes" family of model kits.

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) Sorry! ...I Have No More DC Comics!"

Characters Tommy; Tommy's friend
Synopsis Tommy's friend misses out on his favorite comics, but Tommy doesn't because he has subscriptions.

1 page Direct Currents promo (ad from the publisher)

Synopsis Promo information for DC titles on sale in February 1972.
Letters Typeset

1 page Sandman cover reprint (on interior page) "Adventure Comics #77"

Characters The Sandman; Sandy; Starman (inset)
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Joe Simon (signed)
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #77 (August 1942)

10 page Sandman story "Dreams of Doom"

Characters The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Monroe Alvin; Torchy Grogan (villain); Bugs Baron (villain); Doctor Hoak (villain)
Synopsis One of America's richest men is afraid of the dark and turns to the Sandman to solve his problem and hopefully end his horrific nightmares. But the man's personal psychiatrist has different ideas.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby (signed)
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Joe Simon (signed)
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #77 (August 1942)

1 page Buzzing in the Boom Tube letters page

Script Mark Evanier; Steve Sherman
Letters Typeset