Issue Details

Issue	#9
Published	June-July 1972
Frequency	bi-monthly
Cover Price	0.25 USD
Pages	52
Editing	Jack Kirby

Cover Details

Characters	"Doc" Gideon; Forever People [Big Bear; Vykin the Black; Mark Moonrider; Beautiful Dreamer; Serifan]
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Mike Royer
Editing	Jack Kirby
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 "Monster in the Morgue!"

Characters	"Doc" Gideon; Forever People [Big Bear; Vykin the Black; Mark Moonrider; Beautiful Dreamer; Serifan]; Trixie Magruder; Deadman [Boston Brand]; Ed (cop); Tom (cop)
Synopsis	"Doc" Gideon steals one of Serafan's capsules to use it to re-animate a corpse made of assorted body parts. Deadman turns up at a seance and contacts the Forever People.
Genre	superhero
Script	Jack Kirby
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Mike Royer
Letters	Mike Royer
Notes	This issue mentions "Terrible Turpin".
Reprinted	in Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) #3; in Jack Kirby's Forever People (DC, 1999 series) #[nn]

1 page Direct Currents promo (ad from the publisher)

Synopsis	Synopsis information on DC comic titles on sale April 11 & April 13th, 1972.
Letters	Typeset

1 page Sandman cover reprint (on interior page) "Adventure Comics #74"

Characters	The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Starman [Ted Knight] (inset)
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Joe Simon ?
Reprinted	from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #74

10 page Sandman story "The Man Who Knew All the Answers!"

Characters	The Sandman [Wesley Dodds]; Sandy [Sandy Hawkins]; Ed Porter; The Human Calculator [Professor Hiram Gaunt](villain, introduction)
Synopsis	Sandman and Sandy face the threat of a scientist who has invented a machine whose revitalizing vibrations allow a man to develop his unused brain cells, tripling his thinking power!
Genre	superhero
Script	Jack Kirby
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Joe Simon ?
Letters	Howard Ferguson
Reprinted	from Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #74

1 page Buzzing in the Boom Tube letters page

Script	Mark Evanier; Steve Sherman
Letters	Typeset