You know, there's one big problem that no one has considered with alchemy:
What if it's simply
not cost effective? Sure, gold is valuable, but what if costs more in materials than the gold you produce is worth?!?
Nobody tell
Diablo.
Ah, but
femme fatale Berta convinces
Dr. Midas that massive terrorism is a tiny price to pay for gold!
So...
Dude, there had to be people in that building!! What a dick!!
Well, the sound of a collapsing skyscraper is enough to reach
Eternity...
Damn,
Lumpkin can punch!
When our rogue alchemist and henchamn get away, Kid calls for some physics advice:
Michael Faraday!! It's a good things he's stayed up-to-date on modern physics...
And to track the miscreants?
Pocahontas!! Congratulations, ma'am, you are the
200th character summoned by
Kid Eternity!!
Meanwhile, Berta wants to go on a spending spree, but Midas is too much of a nerd to do it!!
The greatest alchemist in history? Don't tell that to
Diablo...
Obviously, Midas hasn't watched enough films to know that this was inevitable.
Kid arrives, but...
...Lumpkin can't be stopped. Except, maybe, by...
Peter Corcoran!
He makes short work of Lumpkin.
And to take care of Midas?
Merlin!!
Now, this is confusing.
In a story four years ago, we saw Merlin, and Kid didn't summon him--
he was still alive!! And he was a villain!!
So did Merlin die in the interim? Was there
more than one Merlin? What the hell? Am I the only one paying attention?!?!
Anyway,
this Merlin can out-alchemy Dr. Midas!
With Lumpkin out of the way, Kid can handle this!
But Berta has recovered, and she's taking the formula!!
How to stop her??
The Pied Piper!!
And now for your gratuitous sexism of the day:
Oh, Kid.
But that cop isn't going to let Kid get away with leaving the street filled wit rats!
So why not summon...
Sir Richard Whittington and
Graymalkin!!
Now, there was a
real Richard Whittingon, who was actually 4-time mayor of London, back in the 14th & 15th centuries. Now, there's no evidence he had a cat, but he was quite popular, and was the inspiration for the bit of folklore
Dick Whittington And His Cat. So, we're confused again. I'll just count the (real) historical figure and the no doubt fictional cat as separate summons. Because it's my blog.
And because Graymalkin does most of the work!
So, wait--you were going to run Kid Eternity in for leaving a bunch of live rats and mice around--but for leaving a bunch of dead ones, you'll let him go?!?! Come on, beat cop!!
The bad guys are sent away...
...and we end with a bad joke:
Sigh...
This was the
sixtieth Kid Eternity story--
60!!. Time flies when you're having fun!! Our standings are:
| Mercury |
5 |
| Achilles |
4 |
| Atlas |
3 |
| Bunyan, Paul |
3 |
| Corbett, Jim |
3 |
| Holmes, Sherlock |
3 |
| Houdini, Harry |
3 |
| Leander |
3 |
| Robin Hood |
3 |
| Thor |
3 |
| Washington, George |
3 |
| Antony, Marc |
2 |
| Arthur, King |
2 |
| Bucephalus |
2 |
| Byron, George Gordon |
2 |
| Cody, “Buffalo” Bill |
2 |
| Columbus, Christopher |
2 |
| D'artagnan |
2 |
| de Bergerac, Cyrano |
2 |
| Ericson, Leif |
2 |
| Geronimo |
2 |
| Hercules |
2 |
| Jove |
2 |
| Khan, Genghis |
2 |
| Lister, Joseph |
2 |
| Milo Of Croton |
2 |
| Nostradamus |
2 |
| Porthos |
2 |
| Rin-Tin-Tin |
2 |
| Rogers' Rangers |
2 |
| Samson |
2 |
| Silver, Long John |
2 |
| Sullivan, John L. |
2 |
| Webster, Daniel |
2 |
| Abu |
1 |
| Adam |
1 |
| Apollo |
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 |
| 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 |
| Cave Man |
1 |
| Cherry Sisters |
1 |
| Christian, Fletcher |
1 |
| Clancy, Patrick |
1 |
| Cleopatra |
1 |
| Colt, Samuel |
1 |
| Corcoran, Peter |
1 |
| Crockett, Davy |
1 |
| Cronson, Gerald |
1 |
| Crusoe, Robinson |
1 |
| Custer, George Armstrong |
1 |
| d'Aubigny. Julie |
1 |
| Davis, Richard Harding |
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 |
| Fagin |
1 |
| Fairbanks, Douglas Sr. |
1 |
| Faraday, Michael |
1 |
| Fink, Mike |
1 |
| Frankenstein's Monster |
1 |
| Franklin, Ben |
1 |
| Galahad |
1 |
| Goliath |
1 |
| Gotch, Frank |
1 |
| Gothicus, Claudius |
1 |
| Grant, Ulysses S. |
1 |
| Graymalkin |
1 |
| Greb, Harry |
1 |
| Griffiths, Albert |
1 |
| Gulliver, Lemuel |
1 |
| Hamilton, Alexander |
1 |
| Hatfield, John |
1 |
| Hathorne, John |
1 |
| Hauser, Kaspar |
1 |
| Henry, Patrick |
1 |
| Hermann, Alexander |
1 |
| Hickathrift, Tom |
1 |
| Hickok, Wild Bill |
1 |
| Hippocrates |
1 |
| Hodges, Joe |
1 |
| Hopkins, Matthew |
1 |
| Houston, Sam |
1 |
| Hyde, Edward |
1 |
| Hyer, Tom |
1 |
| Jackson, Andrew |
1 |
| James, Jesse |
1 |
| Javert |
1 |
| Jeffries, Jim |
1 |
| Johnson, Martin |
1 |
| Jones, John Paul |
1 |
| Kamehameha |
1 |
| Kidd, William |
1 |
| Lafayette, General |
1 |
| Lancelot |
1 |
| Laughing Cavalier |
1 |
| Laveran, Charles |
1 |
| Lee, Robert E. |
1 |
| Legree, Simon |
1 |
| Leonidas |
1 |
| Light Brigade |
1 |
| Lincoln, Abraham |
1 |
| Marable, Fate |
1 |
| Masterson, Bat |
1 |
| Merlin |
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 |
| Neptune |
1 |
| Nightingale, Florence |
1 |
| Noah |
1 |
| Nobel, Alfred |
1 |
| Nobody |
1 |
| North Wind |
1 |
| O'Brien, David |
1 |
| Oakley, Annie |
1 |
| Og |
1 |
| Orpheus |
1 |
| Osceola |
1 |
| Paddock, Charley |
1 |
| Pasteur, Louis |
1 |
| Penelope |
1 |
| Perseus |
1 |
| Pheidippides |
1 |
| Pied Piper |
1 |
| Pinkerton, Allan |
1 |
| Plastic Man |
1 |
| Pocahontas |
1 |
| Post, Wiley |
1 |
| Prometheus |
1 |
| Quixote, Don |
1 |
| Revere, Paul |
1 |
| Richard the LionHeart |
1 |
| Robespierre, Maximilien |
1 |
| Roc |
1 |
| Russell, Lillian |
1 |
| Rustum |
1 |
| Ryan, Paddy |
1 |
| Sandow, Eugen |
1 |
| Sayers, Tom |
1 |
| Schleyer, Johann |
1 |
| Serra, Junipero |
1 |
| Siegfried |
1 |
| Skunk, Jimmy |
1 |
| Socrates |
1 |
| Solomon |
1 |
| Stanley, Henry |
1 |
| Steinmetz, Charles |
1 |
| Tecumseh |
1 |
| Tell, William |
1 |
| Thalfi |
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 |
| Watson, John H |
1 |
| Whittington, Richard |
1 |
| Xanthippe |
1 |
| Zbyzko, Stanislaus |
1 |
NEXT--Kid Vs.
The Phantom Stranger?!?
From Kid Eternity #10 (1948)
