Comic Title: Forever People #8
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Apr/May 1972
On Sale Date: February 1, 1972 Newsstand Date February 1, 1972
Source: Comic Reader, #81

Copyright Date February 1, 1972
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1972

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.25
Page Count: 48
Editor: Jack Kirby

Title: "The Power"
Pages: 26

Feature(s):
Forever People (of Earth-1)

Writer/Penciller: Jack Kirby
Inker: Mike W. Royer

Reprinted In:
Jack Kirby's Forever People TPB (1999)
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 3 HC (2008)
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 3 TPB (2012)
Jack Kirby's the Forever People:Artist's Edition HC (2017)
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus HC (2018)
Forever People by Jack Kirby TPB (2021)
Absolute Fourth World by Jack Kirby Vol. 2 HC (2022)

Feature Character(s)

• Forever People (last appearance in Forever People #7; next appearance in Forever People #9)
• Beautiful Dreamer (last appearance in Forever People #7; next appearance in Forever People #9)
• Big Bear (last appearance in Forever People #7; next appearance in Forever People #9)
• Mark Moonrider (last appearance in Forever People #7; next appearance in Forever People #9)
• Serifan (last appearance in Forever People #7; next appearance in Forever People #9)
• Vykin the Black (last appearance in Forever People #7; next appearance in Forever People #9)

Villain(s)

• Darkseid (last appearance in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #116; next appearance in New Gods #11)
• DeSaad (last appearance in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #116; next appearance in New Gods #11)
• Billion-Dollar Bates (dies in this story; no further appearances)
• The Sect (no further appearances)
• Bates's sentries (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A lawyer, a publisher, an academic, and another man (no further appearances)

Comments:
Serifan is reunited with the other Forever People in this story following his trip to Honshu in Forever People #7.

Synopsis:
The Forever People materialize in an abandoned town populated only by sentries. The sentries attack them, but Big Bear overpowers them. The owner of the town then appears on a monitor and order them to obey. They are forced to do so. The owner is Billion-Dollar Bates, and he possesses the Anti-Life Equation.

The Forever People are taken captive and made to watch a ritual performed by members of the Sect, a strange underground race who are working with Bates. During the ritual, Bates is rendered unconscious. The Sect members have been replaced by Darkseid and DeSaad who want to take the Anti-Life Equation from Bates.

The Forever People rescue Bates. Beautiful Dreamer had used an illusion to feign their captivity. However, Bates is shot and killed by one of his own sentries. His death denies Darkseid of his prize. Darkseid teleports the Forever People away.