We should note that this second consecutive text story about murders in the Canadian woods. what the hell is going on up there?!?!?!
This was the 65th Kid Eternity story, and our updated standings are:
| Mercury | 5 |
| Achilles | 4 |
| Holmes, Sherlock | 4 |
| Atlas | 3 |
| Bunyan, Paul | 3 |
| Corbett, Jim | 3 |
| Houdini, Harry | 3 |
| Leander | 3 |
| Porthos | 3 |
| Robin Hood | 3 |
| Samson | 3 |
| Thor | 3 |
| Washington, George | 3 |
| Antony, Marc | 2 |
| Aramis | 2 |
| Arthur, King | 2 |
| Athos | 2 |
| Bertillon, Alphonse | 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 |
| Leonidas | 2 |
| Lister, Joseph | 2 |
| Milo Of Croton | 2 |
| Nostradamus | 2 |
| Pheidippides | 2 |
| Rin-Tin-Tin | 2 |
| Rogers' Rangers | 2 |
| Silver, Long John | 2 |
| Sullivan, John L. | 2 |
| Webster, Daniel | 2 |
| Abu | 1 |
| Adam | 1 |
| Apollo | 1 |
| Arnold, Benedict | 1 |
| Astor, John Jacob | 1 |
| Attila The Hun | 1 |
| Attucks, Crispin | 1 |
| Baker, Lafayette | 1 |
| Barry's father | 1 |
| Barton, Clara | 1 |
| Bernhardt, Sarah | 1 |
| Blackhawk | 1 |
| Bloodhounds (Legree's) | 1 |
| Bluebeard | 1 |
| Bolivar, Simon | 1 |
| Boone, Daniel | 1 |
| Bowie, Jim | 1 |
| Boyd, Belle | 1 |
| Brady, Diamond Jim | 1 |
| Breitbart, Zishe | 1 |
| British Tank crew | 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 |
| Horatius Cocles | 1 |
| Houston, Sam | 1 |
| Hyde, Edward | 1 |
| Hyer, Tom | 1 |
| Ismail, Yusuf | 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 |
| Light Brigade | 1 |
| Lincoln, Abraham | 1 |
| Marable, Fate | 1 |
| Masterson, Bat | 1 |
| Merlin | 1 |
| Mesmer, Franz | 1 |
| Minutemen | 1 |
| Mix, Tom | 1 |
| Montague, Romeo | 1 |
| Montezuma | 1 |
| Morgan, Henry | 1 |
| Mounties | 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 |
| 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 |
| Stogie | 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--Inventors Gone Wild!!
From Kid Eternity #53 (1948)
I've learned a lot from this blog (in addition to having a ton of fun), like how for regulatory reasons Golden Age comics had this kind of text content. I'm curious, did kids read it? Or just skip past it to the comics?
ReplyDeleteHard to say. Most of them were, at best, mediocre and tepid, and barely worth the effort.
ReplyDeleteThen again, I read every word of the "modern" version of text pieces, letters pages and bullpen Bulletins," when I was a youth...