The Forever People #8

(April-May 1972)

The Power! (Table of Contents: 1)

The Forever People / comic story / 26 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Kirby (credited)

Pencils

Jack Kirby (credited)

Inks

Mike Royer (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Mike Royer

Job Number

X-295

First Line of Dialogue or Text

This is the barrier that Bates built!!

Feature Logo

The Forever People!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Forever People [Mark Moonrider; Big Bear; Beautiful Dreamer; Vykin the Black; Serifan]; Mother Box; The Sect; Billion-Dollar Bates (death); 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.

Reprints

• in Super Héros (Arédit-Artima, 1979 series) #9 (1981)
• in Jack Kirby's Forever People (DC, 1999 series) ([November] 1999) [gray tones only]
• in Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) #3 (2007 [January 2008])
• in The Fourth World Omnibus by Jack Kirby (DC, 2017 series) (2017 [February 2018])
• in The Forever People by Jack Kirby (DC, 2020 series) (2020 [January 2021])

The Cavemen Are Coming (Table of Contents: 2)

Aurora Products / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Direct Currents / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Script

E. Nelson Bridwell

Pencils

Wally Wood; Jack Kirby; Joe Kubert; Murphy Anderson; Bill Draut ?

Inks

Wally Wood; Vince Colletta; Mike Royer; Murphy Anderson; Bill Draut ?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Feature Logo

Direct Currents

Indexer Notes

Promo information for DC titles on sale in February 1972. Includes head shots of Cain; Abel; Jimmy Olsen; Sgt. Rock; Superman and Orion. Includes short promos for House of Secrets #97, G.I. Combat #153, Sinister House of Secret Love #4, Witching Hour #20, Superman #250, Star-Spangled War Stories #162, House of Mystery #201, Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #148, From Beyond the Unknown #16 and The New Gods #8.

[Adventure Comics #77] (Table of Contents: 4)

Sandman / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Jack Kirby (signed as Kirby)

Inks

Joe Simon (signed as Simon)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Editing

Whitney Ellsworth (original editor)

Job Number

X-286

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Starman [Ted Knight] (inset)

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #77 (August 1942)

Dreams of Doom (Table of Contents: 5)

Sandman / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Kirby (signed)

Pencils

Jack Kirby (signed)

Inks

Joe Simon (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Howard Ferguson

Editing

Whitney Ellsworth (original editor)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Did you ever wonder where nightmares come from...

Feature Logo

The Sandman

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Monroe Alvin; Anthoine; Humbert; 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.

Reprints

• from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #77 (August 1942)

Keywords

New York City

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Buzzing in the Boom Tube / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Mark Evanier; Steve Sherman

Letters

typeset

Job Number

X-293

Feature Logo

Buzzing in the Boom Tube

Indexer Notes

Includes letters from William Egan, Tony Kahn, Virgil Silverman and Chris Cammarata.