Mr. Keeper is setting no standards for afterlife laziness, while Kid Eternity has a craving!
Oops--did I give something away? I mean, it's pretty darn obvious--the lady reluctant to hand out free samples of her gum to people on the street, the fact that the only guy in the bank not drugged is the one guy unable to chew...? Maybe the story will surprise us?
Nope.
But Kid isn't as clued in to storytelling tropes as we are, so he hasn't grokked the plot yet. Fortunately...
And yes, this is definitely a robbery!
Emiliano is pretty good at fighting robbers...
And yes, he (and his often uncredited assistants) did have a mobile darkroom!! So bonus points for historically accurate bits!
Still, it is completely insane to Matthew Brady using his horse and cart to force cars to pull over...
And yeah, he just ends up telling the police department how to do what they should have already known how to do...
But he's about to go on the lam in his bulletproof limousine!!
Karf is cornered...but he shoots the commissioner!!
Will Karf escape?
I've spent hours scouring the internet for reference to "crillon" and "duel," and can't find any matches. There's Louis des Balbes by Berton de Crillon, but he only had one famous duel that I can find record of, not 500ish. He had tons of aristocratic descendants, but I can't find any references to any of them being duelists. I found an uncredited short story in The Southerns Literary Messenger of January 1853, which has a "M. de Crillon" as a servant of Cardinal Richelieu who dies in a duel. Seriously, that's it!
So, did the writer of this story get the name wrong? Is it someone so forgotten by history that even Google and Wikipedia are no help in 2018? Some obscyre fictional character no one recalls? No doubt one of you will instantly chime in with the correct answer. Until then, I'll just cal him Crillon.
Whoever he is, he can use that sword!
This was the 75th Kid Eternity story!! And our standings are:
| Mercury | 5 |
| Achilles | 4 |
| Bertillon, Alphonse | 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 |
| Bucephalus | 2 |
| Byron, George Gordon | 2 |
| Cody, “Buffalo” Bill | 2 |
| Columbus, Christopher | 2 |
| Custer, George Armstrong | 2 |
| D'artagnan | 2 |
| de Bergerac, Cyrano | 2 |
| Ericson, Leif | 2 |
| Geronimo | 2 |
| Hercules | 2 |
| Javert | 2 |
| Jove | 2 |
| Khan, Genghis | 2 |
| Lancelot | 2 |
| Leonidas | 2 |
| Lister, Joseph | 2 |
| Milo Of Croton | 2 |
| Neanderthal | 2 |
| Nobel, Alfred | 2 |
| Nobody | 2 |
| Nostradamus | 2 |
| Pheidippides | 2 |
| Quixote, Don | 2 |
| Rin-Tin-Tin | 2 |
| Rogers' Rangers | 2 |
| Silver, Long John | 2 |
| Steinmetz, Charles | 2 |
| Sullivan, John L. | 2 |
| Webster, Daniel | 2 |
| Abu | 1 |
| Adam | 1 |
| Alden, John | 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 |
| Brady, Matthew | 1 |
| Breitbart, Zishe | 1 |
| Bridger, Jim | 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 |
| Crillon | 1 |
| Crockett, Davy | 1 |
| Cronson, Gerald | 1 |
| Crusaders | 1 |
| Crusoe, Robinson | 1 |
| d'Aubigny. Julie | 1 |
| Daedalus | 1 |
| Dagger Dan | 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 |
| Earhart, Amelia | 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 |
| Ikhnaton | 1 |
| Ismail, Yusuf | 1 |
| Jackson, Andrew | 1 |
| James, Jesse | 1 |
| Jeffries, Jim | 1 |
| Johnson, Martin | 1 |
| Jones, John Paul | 1 |
| Kamehameha | 1 |
| Kidd, William | 1 |
| Lafayette, General | 1 |
| Larsen, Wolf | 1 |
| Laughing Cavalier | 1 |
| Laveran, Charles | 1 |
| Lee, Robert E. | 1 |
| Legree, Simon | 1 |
| Light Brigade | 1 |
| Lincoln, Abraham | 1 |
| Macbeth's Witches | 1 |
| Marable, Fate | 1 |
| Marshall, John | 1 |
| Masterson, Bat | 1 |
| McGrew, Dan | 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 |
| Nefertiti | 1 |
| Neptune | 1 |
| Nightingale, Florence | 1 |
| Noah | 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 |
| Revere, Paul | 1 |
| Richard the LionHeart | 1 |
| Robespierre, Maximilien | 1 |
| Roc | 1 |
| Röntgen, Wilhelm | 1 |
| Russell, Lillian | 1 |
| Rustum | 1 |
| Ryan, Paddy | 1 |
| Sandow, Eugen | 1 |
| Sayers, Tom | 1 |
| Schleyer, Johann | 1 |
| Selous, Frederick | 1 |
| Serra, Junipero | 1 |
| Shakespeare, Willaim | 1 |
| Siegfried | 1 |
| Skunk, Jimmy | 1 |
| Socrates | 1 |
| Solomon | 1 |
| Stanley, Henry | 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 |
| Valjean, Jean | 1 |
| Vercingetorix | 1 |
| Villa, Pancho | 1 |
| Villon, Francois | 1 |
| von Helmholtz, Hermann | 1 |
| Vulcan | 1 |
| Watson, John H | 1 |
| Whittington, Richard | 1 |
| Wright Brothers | 1 |
| Xanthippe | 1 |
| Zapata, Emiliano | 1 |
| Zbyzko, Stanislaus | 1 |
NEXT--The Brute!!
From Kid Eternity #12 (1948)
I think the writer or letterer made a small spelling mistake with the summoning of "Crillon." Instead, I think they meant Grillon. Col. Grillon was a fictional character in a play by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee called The Duke of Guise: A tragedy published in the 1680s. Grillon was fiercely loyal to the king and fought many duels and swordfights to help defend the kingdom from being overthrown.
ReplyDeleteAh, once again, Kid could have summoned the murder victim to help figure out what happened, but just plain never thinks of it. Kid knows everything about every obscure person from history and fiction, but still can't figure out what should always be his first step when trying to solve a murder. (Maybe try summoning someone from Eternity who's not a complete moron for help, Kid?)
ReplyDeleteAlso, Zapata brought the Zapatistas along with him? What? Summons can bring their own summons now? It's not like Kid summoned them, since Zapata had to tell him they came along. (Unless Zapata just figured Kid was such an idiot he forgot.) This... opens up a whole new can of worms for the "how Kid's powers work" discussion, that's for sure...
It's as good a guess as any I've been able to come up with, Tom!
ReplyDeleteLuthor--always a good point, but in this case the victim might not have known Killer Karf from John Doe, so it might not have helped.
ReplyDeleteSince's he's a Heroic Spirit, maybe the Zapatistas are his Noble Phantasm?
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