Mark Moonrider was raised on New Genesis alongside his close friends, with whom he would later form the Forever People. When one of the Forever People, Beautiful Dreamer, was kidnapped by Darkseid as part of the war on the New Gods, Mark and the rest of the Forever People went to Earth to rescue her. There, they received aid from Superman, and also from a cosmic being they summoned with their Mother Box, called Infinity Man. After rescuing Beautiful Dreamer, Mark and the rest of the Forever People decided to remain on Earth in order to explore the planet and their own pasts.