So anyway, the series all about historical characters is now pushing that history as we know it is kind of wrong:
But it's not to be, because according to the laws of comic book karma, Adam is immediately punished for tormenting his enemies...by being lost for twenty years!
And not just normal lost...
Yup, we've got the Wright Brothers not making the first flight, and towering mesas filled with dinosaurs. To heck with actual history!
Ah, what the hell, if Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Rice Burroughs can get away with the "hidden land filled with big-ass reptiles," than Kid Eternity is entitled to have some prehistoric fun too, right?!?
Anyway, the Kid and Keeper go to investigate this mesa, to see if they can prove Adam's story.
The survivors fire on Kid, and dammit, he wants to know why!!
Forget it snell, it's Comicstown.
Now, we're 7 pages into this story, and Kid hasn't done a single summoning yet! Hold onto your hats, because things get crazy from here on !
How do you fight cave men?
Oh, wait, this is Claudius II, a.k.a. Claudius Gothicus. You gotta love the giant "C" on his chest...
He drives away the cave men, but inside the wrecked plane:
But outside the plane--dinosaur attack!!
Sadly, Atlas vs. Dinosaur isn't nearly as exciting as you would think:
Man, this story is going to kill me.
So, now you have to get the survivors off the mesa. How?
Well, eventually, Kid realizes that Adam made it off the mesa somehow, so he goes back to grab him, and along the way picks up...
Adam reveals how he got off the mesa...
And so...
This story, man...this story...
We're 33 stories in, and nowhere near the finish line. Here's our standings:
| Mercury | 4 |
| Achilles | 3 |
| Atlas | 3 |
| Corbett, Jim | 3 |
| Arthur, King | 2 |
| Bunyan, Paul | 2 |
| Cody, “Buffalo” Bill | 2 |
| D'artagnan | 2 |
| Ericson, Leif | 2 |
| Hercules | 2 |
| Holmes, Sherlock | 2 |
| Houdini | 2 |
| Leander | 2 |
| Porthos | 2 |
| Robin Hood | 2 |
| Samson | 2 |
| Sullivan, John L. | 2 |
| Washington, George | 2 |
| Abu | 1 |
| Antony, Marc | 1 |
| Aramis | 1 |
| Arnold, Benedict | 1 |
| Athos | 1 |
| Attila The Hun | 1 |
| Attucks, Crispin | 1 |
| Baker, Lafayette | 1 |
| Barry's father | 1 |
| Barton, Clara | 1 |
| Bernhardt, Sarah | 1 |
| Bertillon, Alphonse | 1 |
| Blackhawk | 1 |
| Bluebeard | 1 |
| Bolivar, Simon | 1 |
| Boone, Daniel | 1 |
| Breitbart, Zishe | 1 |
| Bucephalus | 1 |
| Byron, George Gordon | 1 |
| Caesar, Octavian | 1 |
| Cagliostro, Alessandro | 1 |
| Canary, Martha “Calamity” | 1 |
| Cannon, John W. | 1 |
| Carden, Foster | 1 |
| Cherry Sisters | 1 |
| Clancy, Patrick | 1 |
| Colt, Samuel | 1 |
| Columbus | 1 |
| Cronson, Gerald | 1 |
| Crusoe, Robinson | 1 |
| Custer, George Armstrong | 1 |
| de Leon, Ponce | 1 |
| Decatur, Stephen | 1 |
| Discus Thrower | 1 |
| Dockstader, Lew | 1 |
| Dracula | 1 |
| Drake, Sir Francis | 1 |
| Dupin, C. Auguste | 1 |
| Edison, Thomas | 1 |
| Emery | 1 |
| Frankenstein's Monster | 1 |
| Galahad | 1 |
| Gotch, Frank | 1 |
| Gothicus, Claudius | 1 |
| Grant, Ulysses S. | 1 |
| Greb, Harry | 1 |
| Griffiths, Albert | 1 |
| Hatfield, John | 1 |
| Hauser, Kaspar | 1 |
| Henry, Patrick | 1 |
| Hickok, Wild Bill | 1 |
| Hippocrates | 1 |
| Hyde, Edward | 1 |
| Hyer, Tom | 1 |
| Jackson, Andrew | 1 |
| Javert | 1 |
| Jeffries, Jim | 1 |
| Jones, John Paul | 1 |
| Jove | 1 |
| Khan, Genghis | 1 |
| Kidd, William | 1 |
| Lafayette, General | 1 |
| Lancelot | 1 |
| Laughing Cavalier | 1 |
| Lee, Robert E. | 1 |
| Leonidas | 1 |
| Lincoln, Abraham | 1 |
| Lister, Joseph | 1 |
| Marable, Fate | 1 |
| Milo Of Croton | 1 |
| Mulgrew, Jason | 1 |
| Murphy, Charles | 1 |
| Napoleon | 1 |
| Nation, Carrie | 1 |
| Nightingale, Florence | 1 |
| Noah | 1 |
| Nobody | 1 |
| Nostradamus | 1 |
| O'Brien, David | 1 |
| Og | 1 |
| Osceola | 1 |
| Paddock, Charley | 1 |
| Penelope | 1 |
| Pheidippides | 1 |
| Pinkerton, Allan | 1 |
| Plastic Man | 1 |
| Prometheus | 1 |
| Quixote, Don | 1 |
| Revere, Paul | 1 |
| Richard the LionHeart | 1 |
| Rin-Tin-Tin | 1 |
| Robespierre, Maximilien | 1 |
| Russell, Lillian | 1 |
| Rustum | 1 |
| Ryan, Paddy | 1 |
| Sandow, Eugen | 1 |
| Schleyer, Johann | 1 |
| Siegfried | 1 |
| Silver, Long John | 1 |
| Skunk, Jimmy | 1 |
| Socrates | 1 |
| Solomon | 1 |
| Tell, William | 1 |
| Thor | 1 |
| Thurston, Howard | 1 |
| Tiglath IV | 1 |
| Tut-ankh-amen | 1 |
| Twain, Mark | 1 |
| Ulysses | 1 |
| Uncas | 1 |
| Vercingetorix | 1 |
| Villa, Pancho | 1 |
| Vulcan | 1 |
| Webster, Daniel | 1 |
| Xanthippe | 1 |
| Zbyzko, Stanislaus | 1 |
NEXT--When is a dead man not a dead man?!?
From Kid Eternity #5 (1947)
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