Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Dial E For Eternity--Diamonds Are Nobody's Best Friend!

We begin with a conversation between a scientist and a businessman:



Hey, did you know that Kid Eternity and Mr. Keeper are listening in on all your conversations?!?! WITCH HUNT!!

Well, talk of killing is enough to get our heroes involved in this story!!

Meanwhile, experts have verified Professor Alkem's process!


Geez, Kid is getting famous! Everybody knows him! Nobody understands him!!

So who does he call to help verify the diamond's authenticity?

Diamond Jim Brady!!

So, Blodgett doesn't believe experts, but he does believe dead guys who just appear out of nowhere?!?

Well, Blodgett agrees to fund Alkem's research...but is that a good thing?

No, because suddenly...

That doesn't seem suspicious at all...

Kid, I love your, but you're too damn credulous. Thankfully, Keeper's on the job!!

"Country estate?" He lives in a freakin' castle!! With a drawbridge and a dungeon?!?!? What the hell?

Anyway, it turns out, not surprisingly, that Blodgett is a total turd.


Lesson: never seek out private investors, scientists!!

Meanwhile, here's something we don't usually see: Kid and Keeper workshopping whom they should summon!!


Well, it's good to see that Kid's not just summoning willy-nilly without thinking about consequences anymore!!

So they sneak inside and...


Sam Houston?!?!

I mean, 6'4" isn't small, but he's hardly a giant, and I don't know that he was actually strong enough to bust chains. But he is mighty fine in a fight...and he has a way with the insults!!


But it turns out, Alkem doesn't want the police called...but Blodgett does?!?


I don't think Blodgett understands how the legal system works. "Yes, I did the crime, but it was for a crazy lot of money, so I just couldn't resist, your honor!"

Bad move, Alkem.


Alexander Hermann!!

OK, that's just too much coincidence. Good thing Kid didn't call another magician!!


So Alkem gets a gun...


...and the only proper response is...



Annie, get your gun!! Annie Oakley, that is!!

Wait...the streets of Eternity are paved with gemstones?!?


Annie Oakley rejects your acid attacks!!

Afterwards, the kids can't help but flirt:




That was Kid Eternity's version of "get a room, you two!!"

Meanwhile...

Haha, they end up in the same cell, which is kinda crazy. But it does serve to remind you there were no good guys to help or rescue in this story--just crooks and con men!!

This was the 40th Kid Etenity story--40!!--and here are the 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
D'artagnan 2
Ericson, Leif 2
Hercules 2
Holmes, Sherlock 2
Houdini 2
Lister, Joseph 2
Milo Of Croton 2
Porthos 2
Robin Hood 2
Samson 2
Sullivan, John L. 2
Washington, George 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
Boyd, Belle 1
Brady, Diamond Jim 1
Breitbart, Zishe 1
Bucephalus 1
Caesar, Octavian 1
Cagliostro, Alessandro 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
Columbus 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
Galahad 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
Lincoln, Abraham 1
Marable, Fate 1
Masterson, Bat 1
Minutemen 1
Mix, Tom 1
Montague, Romeo 1
Montezuma 1
Mulgrew, Jason 1
Murphy, Charles 1
Napoleon 1
Nation, Carrie 1
Nightingale, Florence 1
Noah 1
Nobody 1
Nostradamus 1
O'Brien, David 1
Oakley, Annie 1
Og 1
Osceola 1
Paddock, Charley 1
Penelope 1
Pheidippides 1
Pinkerton, Allan 1
Plastic Man 1
Post, Wiley 1
Prometheus 1
Quixote, Don 1
Revere, Paul 1
Richard the LionHeart 1
Rin-Tin-Tin 1
Robespierre, Maximilien 1
Rogers' Rangers 1
Russell, Lillian 1
Rustum 1
Ryan, Paddy 1
Sandow, Eugen 1
Schleyer, Johann 1
Siegfried 1
Silver, Long John 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
Vulcan 1
Webster, Daniel 1
Xanthippe 1
Zbyzko, Stanislaus 1

NEXT: More pirates!!

From Hit Comics #47 (1947)

2 comments:

George Chambers said...

Alkem producing, not only a diamond, but a perfectly cut diamond, would have set off my bullshit-sense. I suppose crooks can be credulous, too.

Arynne said...

Yeah, what if Blodgett hadn't been such a dummy? Would it really have been that much work for Alkem to get hold of a rough diamond instead?