Kid and Keeper are wandering along the Mississippi River, when they find a young couple very much in love!
So upset he goes after Kid!!
Anyway...
First, they try a dirty trick to make show the showboat has no acts:
Certainly, he was a great naval leader...but I can't find a lot of support for calling him "the greatest hand-to-hand fighter in naval history."
But Sam uses the confusion to grab Gail and head of to find a cooperative justice of the peace!
But he can't do it alone, so...
Fate Marable was one of the earliest and most influential jazz greats (and he was still alive when this story was published!!). As near as I can tell, he never performed with the Levee Serenaders--their only known work was with Jelly Roll Morton--but it's certainly possible (plus there were lots of bands who used variations on that name).
Most excitingly, they were all African-American...which means this is the first time Kid Eternity has summoned black legends to help him!! Quite a moment in comic book history, and--
Anyway, there's more!
And, finally...
I'm very, very disappointed in you, Kid Eternity!
Oh, yeah, Lew Dockstader was real, all right...
Anyway, now Todd is set for life!
Anyway, after 18 stories, our summoning table looks like this:
| Achilles | 1 |
| Antony, Marc | 1 |
| Atlas | 2 |
| Barry's father | 1 |
| Bernhardt, Sarah | 1 |
| Bertillon, Alphonse | 1 |
| Blackhawk | 1 |
| Boone, Daniel | 1 |
| Bunyan, Paul | 2 |
| Byron, George Gordon | 1 |
| Canary, Martha “Calamity” | 1 |
| Cannon, John W. | 1 |
| Cherry Sisters | 1 |
| Clancy, Patrick | 1 |
| Cody, “Buffalo” Bill | 1 |
| Columbus | 1 |
| Corbett, Jim | 1 |
| Custer, George Armstrong | 1 |
| de Leon, Ponce | 1 |
| Decatur, Stephen | 1 |
| Dockstader, Lew | 1 |
| Don Quixote | 1 |
| Emery | 1 |
| Galahad | 1 |
| Griffiths, Albert | 1 |
| Hercules | 1 |
| Hickok, Wild Bill | 1 |
| Holmes, Sherlock | 1 |
| Houdini | 2 |
| Hyer, Tom | 1 |
| Jackson, Andrew | 1 |
| Jeffries, Jim | 1 |
| Kidd, William | 1 |
| King Arthur | 1 |
| Leander | 1 |
| Marable, Fate | 1 |
| Mercury | 3 |
| Murphy, Charles | 1 |
| Napoleon | 1 |
| Nation, Carrie | 1 |
| Noah | 1 |
| Nobody | 1 |
| Osceola | 1 |
| Paddock, Charley | 1 |
| Pheidippides | 1 |
| Pinkerton, Allan | 1 |
| Plastic Man | 1 |
| Porthos | 1 |
| Prometheus | 1 |
| Robin Hood | 1 |
| Russell, Lillian | 1 |
| Samson | 2 |
| Sandow, Eugen | 1 |
| Schleyer, Johann | 1 |
| Solomon | 1 |
| Sullivan, John L. | 1 |
| Tell, William | 1 |
| Thor | 1 |
| Thurston, Howard | 1 |
| Tiglath IV | 1 |
| Tut-ankh-amen | 1 |
| Twain, Mark | 1 |
| Vercingetorix | 1 |
| Washington, George | 1 |
| Webster, Daniel | 1 |
| Zbyzko, Stanislaus | 1 |
NEXT--The Kid tries the dark side!!
From Hit Comics #39 (1946)
Well, that's unfortunate...can't really say more than that. I'm really hoping that it was just a case of the colorist being unaware of Fate Marable's ethnicity.
ReplyDeleteUsing the miracle of the internet, I determined that $20,000 in 1946 dollars equates to a shade over $251,000 in 2017, so it ain't hay.
ReplyDeleteThis was ridiculous even before the minstrelsy.
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