The stereotyping and gender politics are so terrible and unforgivable, I'm not even going to try to defend this story as a product of its time, or focus on the better bits.
Nope, we'll just have to deal with facepalm moment after facepalm moment. Apologies in advance.
We start with Mr. Keeper all riled up because so undesirables have been sneaking into Eternity!
Paul makes quick work of the bad guys:
Kid is assigned to the kitchen, where the males are...well...
Kid vows to fix it...
So Trask decides to set fire to the village, to allow his droogs to ambush and enslave the villagers.
And Kid makes a very non-specific summons!
But Eternity is in a forgiving mood, as they send:
Still Clancy was effective, as he stopped the fires.
Which leaves white men with guns vs. Amazons.
Well, surely Carrie Nation will call out such tripe!
Anyway, after 16 tales, these are the standings:
| Achilles | 1 |
| Antony, Marc | 1 |
| Atlas | 2 |
| Barry's father | 1 |
| Bernhardt, Sarah | 1 |
| Blackhawk | 1 |
| Boone, Daniel | 1 |
| Bunyan, Paul | 2 |
| Canary, Martha “Calamity” | 1 |
| Clancy, Patrick | 1 |
| Cody, “Buffalo” Bill | 1 |
| Columbus | 1 |
| Corbett, Jim | 1 |
| Custer, George Armstrong | 1 |
| de Leon, Ponce | 1 |
| Don Quixote | 1 |
| Emery | 1 |
| Galahad | 1 |
| Griffiths, Albert | 1 |
| Hercules | 1 |
| Hickok, Wild Bill | 1 |
| Holmes, Sherlock | 1 |
| Houdini | 1 |
| Hyer, Tom | 1 |
| Jackson, Andrew | 1 |
| Jeffries, Jim | 1 |
| Kidd, William | 1 |
| King Arthur | 1 |
| Leander | 1 |
| Mercury | 3 |
| Murphy, Charles | 1 |
| Napoleon | 1 |
| Nation, Carrie | 1 |
| Noah | 1 |
| Nobody | 1 |
| Osceola | 1 |
| Pheidippides | 1 |
| Pinkerton, Allan | 1 |
| Plastic Man | 1 |
| Prometheus | 1 |
| Robin Hood | 1 |
| Samson | 2 |
| Schleyer, Johann | 1 |
| Solomon | 1 |
| Sullivan, John L. | 1 |
| Tell, William | 1 |
| Thor | 1 |
| Thurston, Howard | 1 |
| Tiglath IV | 1 |
| Tut-ankh-amen | 1 |
| Vercingetorix | 1 |
| Washington, George | 1 |
| Webster, Daniel | 1 |
| Zbyzko, Stanislaus | 1 |
Next time--The Kid gets smart (and violent)!!
From Kid Eternity #1 (1946)
Re: Patrick Clancy. Honestly, I bet the writer just made him up, because he couldn't think of an appropriate real-life figure. It's interesting that a dramatic and hazardous job like firefighting hasn't resulted in more famous names. The only one I can think of offhand is Red Adair, of "Hellfighters" fame.
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