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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