But not in this case. We have a wafer thin plot, a repetitive story, and in all honesty, Kid doesn't accomplish a single thing: the story turns out exactly the same as if he had never showed up!!
We start with much confusion in Eternity's bureaucracy.
Well, it doesn't take Kid long to find a clue as to who is missing from the afterlife:
So Kid calls for help...
The Kid gets the Billy Batson treatment...
Anyway, D'artagnan holds off the pirates.
Well, that ends that...even a skilled 17th century pirate wouldn't stand a chance against a modern naval warship, right?
Don't tell that to Captain Kidd!
But, seriously, do you really think even he can beat a modern naval vessel?
Anyway, Captain Kidd seizes the moment...
Hey, he's a pirate--what do you expect?
Anyway, the whole adventure is for naught, as...
Back in the afterlife...
But still...PIRATES!!
After 23 stories, the standings are...
| Achilles | 2 |
| Antony, Marc | 1 |
| Atlas | 2 |
| Attila The Hun | 1 |
| Attucks, Crispin | 1 |
| Barry's father | 1 |
| Bernhardt, Sarah | 1 |
| Bertillon, Alphonse | 1 |
| Blackhawk | 1 |
| Boone, Daniel | 1 |
| Breitbart, Zishe | 1 |
| Bucephalus | 1 |
| Bunyan, Paul | 2 |
| Byron, George Gordon | 1 |
| Caesar, Octavian | 1 |
| Canary, Martha “Calamity” | 1 |
| Cannon, John W. | 1 |
| Carden, Foster | 1 |
| Cherry Sisters | 1 |
| Clancy, Patrick | 1 |
| Cody, “Buffalo” Bill | 1 |
| Columbus | 1 |
| Corbett, Jim | 1 |
| Custer, George Armstrong | 1 |
| D'artagnan | 1 |
| de Leon, Ponce | 1 |
| Decatur, Stephen | 1 |
| Dockstader, Lew | 1 |
| Don Quixote | 1 |
| Drake, Sir Francis | 1 |
| Emery | 1 |
| Ericson, Leif | 1 |
| Galahad | 1 |
| Grant, Ulysses S. | 1 |
| Greb, Harry | 1 |
| Griffiths, Albert | 1 |
| Hercules | 1 |
| Hickok, Wild Bill | 1 |
| Holmes, Sherlock | 1 |
| Houdini | 2 |
| Hyer, Tom | 1 |
| Jackson, Andrew | 1 |
| Jeffries, Jim | 1 |
| Jones, John Paul | 1 |
| Khan, Genghis | 1 |
| Kidd, William | 1 |
| King Arthur | 1 |
| Leander | 1 |
| Lee, Robert E. | 1 |
| Leonidas | 1 |
| Lincoln, Abraham | 1 |
| Marable, Fate | 1 |
| Mercury | 3 |
| Murphy, Charles | 1 |
| Napoleon | 1 |
| Nation, Carrie | 1 |
| Nightingale, Florence | 1 |
| Noah | 1 |
| Nobody | 1 |
| Osceola | 1 |
| Paddock, Charley | 1 |
| Pheidippides | 1 |
| Pinkerton, Allan | 1 |
| Plastic Man | 1 |
| Porthos | 1 |
| Prometheus | 1 |
| Robin Hood | 2 |
| Russell, Lillian | 1 |
| Samson | 2 |
| Sandow, Eugen | 1 |
| Schleyer, Johann | 1 |
| Siegfried | 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--It does NOT take a thief to catch a thief!!
From Hit Comics #41 (1946)
Hm... so if you could get ahold of the Book, and erase your own name, could you go back to Earth whenever you wanted...? (As long as you didn't do anything to draw attention to yourself, it'd probably take the chuckleheads running Eternity quite a while to figure out you're the missing person, it seems...)
ReplyDeleteYeah, Eternity is not the most tightly run outfit, it seems.
ReplyDeleteIf you could summon Atlas or Hercules why in the world would you summon a circus strongman when you needed someone strong?
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ReplyDeleteA quite Batsonesque peril (and solution!) Kid found himself in there. Wonder if that was the first time someone tied and gagged him? (I'm too lazy to go back and look for myself right now, but I might later.)
ReplyDeleteNo, it's the 3rd or 4th time. Still, Kid was gagged nowhere as nearly as often as the marvel Family...
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