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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published August-September 1971
Frequency Bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Jack Kirby

Cover Details - "Kingdom of the Damned!"

Characters Forever People [Big Bear; Vykin the Black; Beautiful Dreamer; Mark Moonrider; Serifan]; Desaad
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta
Reprinted In Jack Kirby's Forever People (1999 series) #[nn]; in Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) #2

22 page Forever People story "The Kingdom of the Damned"

Characters Forever People [Big Bear; Vykin the Black; Beautiful Dreamer; Mark Moonrider; Serifan]; Desaad; Sonny Sumo; Darkseid; Tommy
Synopsis The Forever People are tortured by Desaad in his Happyland amusement park.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta
Letters John Costanza
Reprinted In Jack Kirby's Forever People (1999 series) #[nn]; in Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) #2

Half page promo (ad from the publisher)

Synopsis Carmine Infantino explains why DC was forced to raise prices.
Script Carmine Infantino
Letters Typeset

1 page Forever People illustration "The Super-Kids of the Century!"

Characters Forever People [Big Bear; Mark Moonrider; Vykin the Black; Serifan]
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta
Reprinted In Jack Kirby's Forever People (1999 series) #[nn]

1 page Buzzing in the Boom Tube letters page

Script Mark Evanier; Steve Sherman
Letters Typeset

1 page Forever People story "Beautiful Dreamer versus Darkseid!"

Characters Beautiful Dreamer; Darkseid
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta
Reprinted In Jack Kirby's Forever People (1999 series) #[nn]

1 page illustration "Kirby's the Name!"

Characters Jack Kirby
Synopsis Jack Kibry at his drawing board introducing the Sandman Reprint.
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta ?
Reprinted in Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) #2

1 page Sandman cover reprint (on interior page) "Adventure Comics #85"

Characters The Sandman; Sandy; Gentleman Jack Jarvis; Starman (inset)
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #85 (April 1943)

10 page Sandman story "The Unholy Dreams of Gentleman Jack"

Characters Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; "Gentleman Jack" Jarvis (villain); Gus (villain)
Synopsis Hounded by dreams of the Sandman, when Gentleman Jack Jarvis is released from prison he swears that he will one day live in a suite of cells, come and go as he pleases with guards waiting on him hand and foot......but the Sandman will suffer in a solitary cell and made to die slowly!
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon ?
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted from Adventure Comics #85 (April 1943)

1 page Forever People illustration "The Infinity Man"

Characters Infinity Man
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta
Reprinted In Jack Kirby's Forever People (1999 series) #[nn]; in Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) #2