Comic Title: Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 3 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2008
On Sale Date: November 21, 2007 Direct Market Date November 21, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #7 (#223)

Direct Market Date November 21, 2007
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Cover Price: $49.99
Page Count: 396

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Power"
Pages: 26

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

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

Reprinted From:
Forever People #8 (1972)

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 The Sect members have been replaced by Darkseid and DeSaad who want to take the Anti-Life Equation from Bates.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.