It takes a while for Kid to get involved--because first we have SCIENCE--Golden Age science!!
Well, apparently the bureaucracy in Eternity has gotten a lot more streamlined, because Von Kelm is only dead a couple of minutes before he goes screaming for...
Unfortunately, while he's pretty good at killing gorgons, Perseus is crap at killing talking interdimensional apes...
But Perseus is still in trouble!
But Dr. Zaius hasn't gone far...
And he's quite helpful...
But if you can't stab them or shoot them, whom do you call to conk these beasts on the head?
Time for more theorizing!
Meanwhile, back in Eternity...
Keeper knows the future?!? How?!?
And if history is preordained, why did you bother stopping the telepathic talking interdimensional apes from invading? They couldn't have succeeded anyway, if it's all set, right?!?!
And if Keeper is correct, someone who is turning 30 this year is going to solve the problems of the linear curves of space-time, and we could be facing another invasion of telepathic talking interdimensional apes!! We're doomed!!
This was the 45th Kid Eternity story, and here are our 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 |
| Columbus, Christopher | 2 |
| D'artagnan | 2 |
| Ericson, Leif | 2 |
| Hercules | 2 |
| Holmes, Sherlock | 2 |
| Houdini | 2 |
| Lister, Joseph | 2 |
| Milo Of Croton | 2 |
| Nostradamus | 2 |
| Porthos | 2 |
| Rin-Tin-Tin | 2 |
| Robin Hood | 2 |
| Samson | 2 |
| Silver, Long John | 2 |
| Sullivan, John L. | 2 |
| Washington, George | 2 |
| Webster, Daniel | 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 |
| Bowie, Jim | 1 |
| Boyd, Belle | 1 |
| Brady, Diamond Jim | 1 |
| Breitbart, Zishe | 1 |
| Bucephalus | 1 |
| Caesar, Octavian | 1 |
| Cagliostro, Alessandro | 1 |
| Calhoun, John C. | 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 |
| 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 |
| Franklin, Ben | 1 |
| Galahad | 1 |
| Geronimo | 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 |
| Light Brigade | 1 |
| Lincoln, Abraham | 1 |
| Marable, Fate | 1 |
| Masterson, Bat | 1 |
| Minutemen | 1 |
| Mix, Tom | 1 |
| Montague, Romeo | 1 |
| Montezuma | 1 |
| Morgan, Henry | 1 |
| Mulgrew, Jason | 1 |
| Murphy, Charles | 1 |
| Napoleon | 1 |
| Nation, Carrie | 1 |
| Neanderthal | 1 |
| Nightingale, Florence | 1 |
| Noah | 1 |
| Nobel, Alfred | 1 |
| Nobody | 1 |
| O'Brien, David | 1 |
| Oakley, Annie | 1 |
| Og | 1 |
| Osceola | 1 |
| Paddock, Charley | 1 |
| Penelope | 1 |
| Perseus | 1 |
| Pheidippides | 1 |
| Pinkerton, Allan | 1 |
| Plastic Man | 1 |
| Post, Wiley | 1 |
| Prometheus | 1 |
| Quixote, Don | 1 |
| Revere, Paul | 1 |
| Richard the LionHeart | 1 |
| Robespierre, Maximilien | 1 |
| Rogers' Rangers | 1 |
| Russell, Lillian | 1 |
| Rustum | 1 |
| Ryan, Paddy | 1 |
| Sandow, Eugen | 1 |
| Sayers, Tom | 1 |
| Schleyer, Johann | 1 |
| Siegfried | 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 |
| Villon, Francois | 1 |
| Vulcan | 1 |
| Xanthippe | 1 |
| Zbyzko, Stanislaus | 1 |
NEXT--Kid Eternity Vs. The Mole Man!!
From Hit Comics #49 (1947)
Hokey smokes, you weren't kidding! what a great KID ETERNITY story! And as always, your commentary is the only possibly improvement on the comic. I love that you keep trying to figure out the theological/narrative rules of Eternity even though it's clearly hopeless. (Now Keeper knows the future, and it's apparently preordained? That changes everything! And I bet we never hear about it again!)
ReplyDeleteSo do the interdimensional apes have their own eternity? I notice they didn't show up in ours after they bought the farm.
ReplyDeleteDid physicist Hans Von Kelm create a Boom Tube? Note the sound effect in that panel.
ReplyDeleteSmurf--Could be. We've seen Kid summon non-humans & animals before. Perhaps each dimension has their own Eternity. Which has given me inspiration for the second arc in my Kid Eternity And The Legion Of Super-Heroes project...
ReplyDeleteAndy--could be!