FOREVER PEOPLE (1971-1972)
Though a Jack Kirby junkie since age 8, I never read the full run of THE FOREVER PEOPLE, a portion of his interconnected "Fourth World" epic for DC Comics during the early 1970's, as I don't remember it ever turning up on the comics racks at any of the local convenience stores that carried comics. (Until 1981 I bought my comics from a limited number of convenience stores, and those pretty much stocked only the flagship Marvel and DC fare, along with Archie and a handful of smaller titles that came and went.) I was only ever able to get my hands on its final two issues, which kind of made no sense unless one had been on board since the beginning, and finding the back issues was a relatively pricey endeavor even back then, as it was not long after Kirby's departure from his industry-changing years in collaboration with Stan Lee, so his loyalists snapped up whatever they could get and would not let any of it go. Anyway, to the best of my knowledge K
