Meanwhile, experts have verified Professor Alkem's process!
So who does he call to help verify the diamond's authenticity?
Well, Blodgett agrees to fund Alkem's research...but is that a good thing?
Anyway, it turns out, not surprisingly, that Blodgett is a total turd.
Meanwhile, here's something we don't usually see: Kid and Keeper workshopping whom they should summon!!
So they sneak inside and...
I mean, 6'4" isn't small, but he's hardly a giant, and I don't know that he was actually strong enough to bust chains. But he is mighty fine in a fight...and he has a way with the insults!!
Afterwards, the kids can't help but flirt:
Meanwhile...
This was the 40th Kid Etenity story--40!!--and here are the standings:
| Achilles | 4 |
| Mercury | 4 |
| Atlas | 3 |
| Corbett, Jim | 3 |
| Leander | 3 |
| Antony, Marc | 2 |
| Arthur, King | 2 |
| Bunyan, Paul | 2 |
| Byron, George Gordon | 2 |
| Cody, “Buffalo” Bill | 2 |
| D'artagnan | 2 |
| Ericson, Leif | 2 |
| Hercules | 2 |
| Holmes, Sherlock | 2 |
| Houdini | 2 |
| Lister, Joseph | 2 |
| Milo Of Croton | 2 |
| Porthos | 2 |
| Robin Hood | 2 |
| Samson | 2 |
| Sullivan, John L. | 2 |
| Washington, George | 2 |
| Abu | 1 |
| Aramis | 1 |
| Arnold, Benedict | 1 |
| Astor, John Jacob | 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 |
| Boyd, Belle | 1 |
| Brady, Diamond Jim | 1 |
| Breitbart, Zishe | 1 |
| Bucephalus | 1 |
| Caesar, Octavian | 1 |
| Cagliostro, Alessandro | 1 |
| Canary, Martha “Calamity” | 1 |
| Cannon, John W. | 1 |
| Capulet, Juliet | 1 |
| Carden, Foster | 1 |
| Carpenter, Daniel | 1 |
| Cherry Sisters | 1 |
| Clancy, Patrick | 1 |
| Cleopatra | 1 |
| Colt, Samuel | 1 |
| Columbus | 1 |
| Crockett, Davy | 1 |
| Cronson, Gerald | 1 |
| Crusoe, Robinson | 1 |
| Custer, George Armstrong | 1 |
| de Bergerac, Cyrano | 1 |
| de Leon, Ponce | 1 |
| de Rais, Gilles | 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 |
| Hamilton, Alexander | 1 |
| Hatfield, John | 1 |
| Hauser, Kaspar | 1 |
| Henry, Patrick | 1 |
| Hermann, Alexander | 1 |
| Hickathrift, Tom | 1 |
| Hickok, Wild Bill | 1 |
| Hippocrates | 1 |
| Hopkins, Matthew | 1 |
| Houston, Sam | 1 |
| Hyde, Edward | 1 |
| Hyer, Tom | 1 |
| Jackson, Andrew | 1 |
| James, Jesse | 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 |
| Legree, Simon | 1 |
| Leonidas | 1 |
| Lincoln, Abraham | 1 |
| Marable, Fate | 1 |
| Masterson, Bat | 1 |
| Minutemen | 1 |
| Mix, Tom | 1 |
| Montague, Romeo | 1 |
| Montezuma | 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 |
| Oakley, Annie | 1 |
| Og | 1 |
| Osceola | 1 |
| Paddock, Charley | 1 |
| Penelope | 1 |
| Pheidippides | 1 |
| Pinkerton, Allan | 1 |
| Plastic Man | 1 |
| Post, Wiley | 1 |
| Prometheus | 1 |
| Quixote, Don | 1 |
| Revere, Paul | 1 |
| Richard the LionHeart | 1 |
| Rin-Tin-Tin | 1 |
| Robespierre, Maximilien | 1 |
| Rogers' Rangers | 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 |
| Tecumseh | 1 |
| Tell, William | 1 |
| Thalfi | 1 |
| Thor | 1 |
| Thumb, Tom | 1 |
| Thurston, Howard | 1 |
| Tiglath IV | 1 |
| Tuck, Friar | 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: More pirates!!
From Hit Comics #47 (1947)
Alkem producing, not only a diamond, but a perfectly cut diamond, would have set off my bullshit-sense. I suppose crooks can be credulous, too.
ReplyDeleteYeah, what if Blodgett hadn't been such a dummy? Would it really have been that much work for Alkem to get hold of a rough diamond instead?
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