We start with Kid Eternity peeking in windows, looking for someone who needs his help.
Anyway, what's wrong with our young scientist?
But he's going to need help!
Except...
I mean, if I were writing a comic, and couldn't finish it, and called in Will Eisner and Jack Kirby and Darwyn Cooke to finish it for me, do I still get to call it mine? If I made a movie, and couldn't figure out how to end it, and Kid called in Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles and John Huston to complete it while I stood around and watched, can I really say that it's my movie?!?
Anyway, Pierce's problems are solved, and his amazing X-ray device will make him rich. Except...
It seems that "work you do while employed by us belongs to us" clauses were around back in 1948, not just more modern and evil times!
And while, yes, they are kind of questionable, ethically...
Well, there's only one solution:
An opportunistic gangster is patrolling the streets, looking for good opportunities:
But, greedy crooks can't stop at just one bank...
The best part is...
Aww, but he's all upset about it!
Well, our primitive takes care of the crooks, so the story is over, right?
You mean the banks funds weren't insured?!? And Magnus Electronics kept 100% of their funds in that bank--in cash?!?!? What the hell--are you an electronics firm, or a money laundering front for a drug cartel?!?!
As to the invention?
And Magnus was so nice, none of this story ever needed to happen! All the violence and mayhem? Pointless!
So now Pierce can get rich while sitting on death row!
This was the 66th Kid Eternity story, and our standings are...
| Abu | 1 |
| Achilles | 4 |
| Adam | 1 |
| Antony, Marc | 2 |
| Apollo | 1 |
| Aramis | 2 |
| Arnold, Benedict | 1 |
| Arthur, King | 2 |
| Astor, John Jacob | 1 |
| Athos | 2 |
| Atlas | 3 |
| Attila The Hun | 1 |
| Attucks, Crispin | 1 |
| Baker, Lafayette | 1 |
| Barry's father | 1 |
| Barton, Clara | 1 |
| Bernhardt, Sarah | 1 |
| Bertillon, Alphonse | 2 |
| 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 |
| Bucephalus | 2 |
| Bunyan, Paul | 3 |
| Byron, George Gordon | 2 |
| 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 |
| Cody, “Buffalo” Bill | 2 |
| Colt, Samuel | 1 |
| Columbus, Christopher | 2 |
| Corbett, Jim | 3 |
| Corcoran, Peter | 1 |
| Crockett, Davy | 1 |
| Cronson, Gerald | 1 |
| Crusoe, Robinson | 1 |
| Custer, George Armstrong | 1 |
| D'artagnan | 2 |
| d'Aubigny. Julie | 1 |
| Daedalus | 1 |
| Davis, Richard Harding | 1 |
| de Bergerac, Cyrano | 2 |
| 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 |
| Ericson, Leif | 2 |
| Fagin | 1 |
| Fairbanks, Douglas Sr. | 1 |
| Faraday, Michael | 1 |
| Fink, Mike | 1 |
| Frankenstein's Monster | 1 |
| Franklin, Ben | 1 |
| Galahad | 1 |
| Geronimo | 2 |
| 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 |
| Hercules | 2 |
| Hermann, Alexander | 1 |
| Hickathrift, Tom | 1 |
| Hickok, Wild Bill | 1 |
| Hippocrates | 1 |
| Hodges, Joe | 1 |
| Holmes, Sherlock | 4 |
| Hopkins, Matthew | 1 |
| Horatius Cocles | 1 |
| Houdini, Harry | 3 |
| 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 |
| Jove | 2 |
| Kamehameha | 1 |
| Khan, Genghis | 2 |
| Kidd, William | 1 |
| Lafayette, General | 1 |
| Lancelot | 1 |
| Laughing Cavalier | 1 |
| Laveran, Charles | 1 |
| Leander | 3 |
| Lee, Robert E. | 1 |
| Legree, Simon | 1 |
| Leonidas | 2 |
| Light Brigade | 1 |
| Lincoln, Abraham | 1 |
| Lister, Joseph | 2 |
| Marable, Fate | 1 |
| Masterson, Bat | 1 |
| Mercury | 5 |
| Merlin | 1 |
| Mesmer, Franz | 1 |
| Milo Of Croton | 2 |
| 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 | 2 |
| Neptune | 1 |
| Nightingale, Florence | 1 |
| Noah | 1 |
| Nobel, Alfred | 1 |
| Nobody | 1 |
| North Wind | 1 |
| Nostradamus | 2 |
| O'Brien, David | 1 |
| Oakley, Annie | 1 |
| Og | 1 |
| Orpheus | 1 |
| Osceola | 1 |
| Paddock, Charley | 1 |
| Pasteur, Louis | 1 |
| Penelope | 1 |
| Perseus | 1 |
| Pheidippides | 2 |
| Pied Piper | 1 |
| Pinkerton, Allan | 1 |
| Plastic Man | 1 |
| Pocahontas | 1 |
| Porthos | 3 |
| Post, Wiley | 1 |
| Prometheus | 1 |
| Quixote, Don | 1 |
| Revere, Paul | 1 |
| Richard the LionHeart | 1 |
| Rin-Tin-Tin | 2 |
| Robespierre, Maximilien | 1 |
| Robin Hood | 3 |
| Roc | 1 |
| Rogers' Rangers | 2 |
| Röntgen, Wilhelm | 1 |
| Russell, Lillian | 1 |
| Rustum | 1 |
| Ryan, Paddy | 1 |
| Samson | 3 |
| Sandow, Eugen | 1 |
| Sayers, Tom | 1 |
| Schleyer, Johann | 1 |
| Serra, Junipero | 1 |
| Siegfried | 1 |
| Silver, Long John | 2 |
| Skunk, Jimmy | 1 |
| Socrates | 1 |
| Solomon | 1 |
| Stanley, Henry | 1 |
| Steinmetz, Charles | 2 |
| Stogie | 1 |
| Sullivan, John L. | 2 |
| Tecumseh | 1 |
| Tell, William | 1 |
| Thalfi | 1 |
| Thor | 3 |
| 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 |
| von Helmholtz, Hermann | 1 |
| Vulcan | 1 |
| Washington, George | 3 |
| Watson, John H | 1 |
| Webster, Daniel | 2 |
| Whittington, Richard | 1 |
| Xanthippe | 1 |
| Zbyzko, Stanislaus | 1 |
NEXT--Les Miserables meets The Maltese Falcon, Egypt-style!!
From Kid Eternity #11 (1948)
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