Our duo is hanging around doing nothing...but somehow eternal being Mr. Keeper is getting a cold!
Two young lovers admire the man's place of work...
Kid racks his brain...
But...
Kane hires goons to detain Kid, to keep him from interfering further, but this time Kid summons more successfully!
Still, legal questions aside, you'd think Kid and Keeper would wander around solving unsolved murders, summoning victims to identify their killers and bring them to justice. Pushing Daisies 60-odd years early, as it were. Certainly, putting murderers behind bars seems a more important way to fight evil than stopping random con-men and robbers like you seem to do every month!
After 11 stories, this is where we stand:
| Achilles | 1 |
| Antony, Marc | 1 |
| Barry's father | 1 |
| Bernhardt, Sarah | 1 |
| Blackhawk | 1 |
| Bunyan, Paul | 1 |
| Canary, Martha 'Calamity' | 1 |
| Cody, “Buffalo” Bill | 1 |
| Columbus | 1 |
| Corbett, Jim | 1 |
| Custer, George Armstrong | 1 |
| Don Quixote | 1 |
| Emery | 1 |
| Griffiths, Albert | 1 |
| Hercules | 1 |
| Hickok, Wild Bill | 1 |
| Holmes, Sherlock | 1 |
| Houdini | 1 |
| Hyer, Tom | 1 |
| Jeffries, Jim | 1 |
| King Arthur | 1 |
| Leander | 1 |
| Mercury | 2 |
| Murphy, Charles | 1 |
| Napoleon | 1 |
| Noah | 1 |
| Nobody | 1 |
| Pheidippides | 1 |
| Pinkerton, Allan | 1 |
| Plastic Man | 1 |
| Robin Hood | 1 |
| Samson | 2 |
| Solomon | 1 |
| Sullivan, John L. | 1 |
| Thurston, Howard | 1 |
| Vercingetorix | 1 |
| Washington, George | 1 |
| Webster, Daniel | 1 |
| Zbyzko, Stanislaus | 1 |
Next month--witchcraft, arson, time travel, and the best Kid Eternity story yet!
From Hit Comics #35 (1945)
Not being familiar with the old Kid Eternity series, this story kind of raises a question that I don't know would ever have been addressed. Kane threatens to re-kill the summoned Emery. So... is that possible, for one of Kid Eternity's summons to be killed? (Especially in the cases where the person summoned was still alive at the time.) I suppose either they couldn't be killed at all, or killing them would just send them back to wherever Kid summoned them from (though could Kid then just re-summon them?). Possibly some story ideas there (if it was never addressed before), not that it's likely to ever be explored.
ReplyDeleteFair question. And one I doubt will be answered, given the wonky and inconsistent universe they've established here. Kid Eternity himself cannot be killed, at least when Keeper isn't taking his powers away. Presumably, since everyone is being summoned from "Eternity," the same might apply? Plus, given Kid's propensity to summon fictional/mythological characters, those guys probably couldn't be killed. Then again, he has summoned people who are still alive (no doubt due to sloppy research, rather than an actual power?), so who the heck knows what would happen then...
ReplyDeleteAn enjoyable read !! not familiar with this character though...
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