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The Forever People is a comic book property created by Jack Kirby as part of the Fourth World set of DC Comics titles.

The heroes are a group of young New Gods from New Genesis who were originally on a journey to oppose Darkseid on Earth. In addition to the individual abilities and equipment of the members, the group can join to summon a powerful hero called the Infinity-Man to handle particularly dangerous threats.

They first appeared in their own title, The Forever People, in 1971. This series lasted 11 issues, and ended on a cliffhanger. In the last issue, they summoned Infinity Man, swapping places with him on a distant planet. Infinity Man was apparently killed/destroyed in this issue, leaving the Forever People stranded on that distant world.

In 1988, a six issue mini-series was published, Forever People. In this series, it showed what had happened to the Forever People on that distant world. During this series, all the things that happened to them on this planet were reversed, and they were restored to our part of the universe.

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Members

Beautiful Dreamer

Beautiful Dreamer has been married to Big Bear, and together they had a child, named Maya, after the spirit of their old Mother Box.

Since then, apparently their marriage and daughter has been voided by the magical powers of the "retcon"; currently, Dreamer is romantically involved with Takion, the new Highfather of New Genesis. Dreamer has psionic powers, which she can create illusions with. She has also been able, like other New Gods, to sense fluctuations within the Source.

Big Bear

Big Bear has been married to Beautiful Dreamer, and together they had Maya, their daughter. Of course, thanks to the "retcon," that marriage, and their daughter Maya, never even happened.

Big Bear has superhuman strength and can mentally alter the density of objects.

Mark Moonrider

Mark, while on Adon, fell in love with and later marries one of the natives, Mina. They had 3 children together, but when the Dark took over Adon, they were all reverted to savagery, leaving Mark with only his friends.

He has a "megaton touch," which allows him to shoot bolts of energy from his hands.

Serifan

Serifan is the unruly one of the bunch. With no super-powers, he is usually the most vulnerable. The Dark saw this and possessed Serifan, using him to conquer Forevertown and plague the Forever People. After the Dark was defeated he returned to his normal self.

Serifan has no super powers, but he always carries "cosmic cartridges," which can generate an anti-gravitational force or create force fields.

Vykin

When they were stranded on Adon, Mark Moonrider thought it would be advantageous to civilize the people of the planet. When Vykin used their Mother Box to do so, it overloaded and was destroyed, killing Vykin in the process, yet creating Forevertown. But when the Dark overtook and reversed the effects of the Mother Box, Vykin was brought back to life; his death having been reversed by the Dark.

Recently he was reunited with his mother, Valkyra, on New Genesis, but lost her when she sacrificed her life to save her lover Orion.

Vykin has magnetic powers which allow him to attract or repel to objects of either iron or steel.

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Awards

This series, with New Gods, Mister Miracle, and Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen won Jack Kirby a Shazam award for Special Achievement by an Individual in 1973.

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