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Issue Details

Issue #6
Published December 1971-January 1972
Frequency Bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Jack Kirby

Cover Details - "The Omega Effect!"

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

22 page Forever People story "The Omega Effect!!"

Characters Forever People [Beautiful Dreamer; Mark Moonrider; Serifan; Big Bear; Vykin the Black]; Darkseid; Desaad; Sonny Sumo; Glorious Godfrey; Justifiers
Synopsis Darkseid uses his Omega Beams on the Forever People, apparently killing all but Serifan.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Mike Royer
Letters John Costanza
Notes Inks credit from Scott Grammel on 4 December 2004. Originally indexed as "Vince Colletta (Superman touch-ups by Al Plastino)"
Reprinted In Jack Kirby's Forever People (DC, 1999 series) #[nn]; in Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) #2

4 page The Young Gods of Supertown story "Raid from Apokolips"

Characters Serifan; Captain Ogur; Big Bear
Synopsis Serifan and Big Bear stop Captain Ogur from shooting Supertown out of the sky.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Vince Colletta
Letters John Costanza
Reprinted In Jack Kirby's Forever People (DC, 1999 series) #[nn]

2 page Buzzing in the Boomtube letters page

Script Mark Evanier; Steve Sherman
Letters Typeset
Notes Includes letters from Bob Rozakis and Mike W. Barr.

1 page Sandman cover reprint (on interior page) "Adventure Comics #75"

Characters The Sandman; Sandy; Thor (villain); Starman [inset]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #75 (June 1942)

10 page Sandman story "The Villain from Valhalla!"

Characters The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Police Chief Haines; Thor [Fairy Tales Fenton](villain)
Synopsis A former Professor of Metallurgy, who has invented clothing of lucite that is bullet-proof, disguises himself and his men as ancient Vikings to commit crimes. They then challenge the Police and Sandman to discover their whereabouts after divesting themselves of their distinctive garb.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Joe Simon
Letters Howard Ferguson
Reprinted from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #75 (June 1942)