Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Dial E For Etentiy--Kid Etermity Vs. The Mole Man!

This is another of those stories in which it takes forever for Kid Eternity to get involved, and even longer for him to do anything useful. Then again, it's tough to find historical personages who are capable of dealing with this kind of threat!!

Scientist Caleb Ness is working on a crucial invention:

And what does the great Terrebore do?!?

Oh, so it's a Journey To The Center Of The Earth kind of thing.

At least until criminals get involved...

Squint let's crime boss Skull Mootz know what's up, and Skull brings his gun!

Thanks for the linguistics lesson, professor!! But maybe insulting the guy holding a gun on you isn't smart...?


And that's when Kid decides to get involved:

Oh, but Keeper is ever so wrong, as they find out when Kid makes them go to investigate:

So what does Mootz plan?


Ness is seriously underestimating the harm this thing can do, as...



And so it is:


Mass murder it is!! But what's your game, Mootz?

Kid tries to warn the mayor of the next town...

...but apparently he's just moonlighting from his job as the mayor in Jaws:

Mayors. They never listen.


So the point of this destruction?

Ah! You killed tens of thousands just to let people know your threat is credible?!?! So it's just a stupid extortion scheme? Pretty shitty excuse for killing thousands...

At least he calls himself Mister Mole!!

Well, after two cities are destroyed, mayors are finally willing to listen...and there's none of this "we don't deal with terrorists" attitude!

Wow. They're literally having every single person in town give ten bucks. Gee, maybe the city could have picked up the tab for this? Just asking...

Anyway, when confronted with stopping a madman in charge of a super-scientific device, Kid Eternity calls upon...

George Washington?!? Really?!? I mean...I love President Washington, but what in the world makes you think that he can stop a Terrebore?!?!?


By the way, congratulations, George. This is your 3rd summoning, moving you into a tie for 2nd place!!

Anyway, George is staggeringly useless here:



So why did you waste our time by summoning him?

Also, missed opportunity: with all that cash laying around, you should have George wonder why he was only on the $1 bill while Hamilton was on the $10!!

Meanwhile, having been used as a tool to murder countless thousands, Ness finally tries to end the reign of terror:


Mootz has learned enough to pilot the Terrebore himself!! To late with the valiant gesture, professor!

The army is hopeless against machine:

So let's try a man who could beat up armies by himself:

Goliath!!

Well, he's strong enough to make a good attempt at stopping Mr. Mole...

But, really, throwing a giant drilling machine into the bottom of the lake isn't going to stop it:

So Mootz decides to go BIG with his scheme:


Well, it's that means it's time for the BIG gun:


JOVE!!

Congratulations, Head of the Gods--this is your second summoning!! And you're much more effective, this time!!

Still, instant death?!?? YOW!

Still, you do have to like Kid's attitude of saving human crooks for "human justice." And you also admire him for bending that rules when hundreds of thousands of lives are at stake. Well played...eventually.

Meanwhile, the local paper really needs to edit their headlines:

That is the very opposite of a buried lede!! The whole story is in the headline!!

This was the 46th Kid Eternity story, and our summoning stats are:

 
Abu 1
Achilles 4
Antony, Marc 2
Aramis 1
Arnold, Benedict 1
Arthur, King 2
Astor, John Jacob 1
Athos 1
Atlas 3
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
Bucephalus 1
Bunyan, Paul 2
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
Cherry Sisters 1
Clancy, Patrick 1
Cleopatra 1
Cody, “Buffalo” Bill 2
Colt, Samuel 1
Columbus, Christopher 2
Corbett, Jim 3
Crockett, Davy 1
Cronson, Gerald 1
Crusoe, Robinson 1
Custer, George Armstrong 1
D'artagnan 2
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
Ericson, Leif 2
Frankenstein's Monster 1
Franklin, Ben 1
Galahad 1
Geronimo 1
Goliath 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
Hercules 2
Hermann, Alexander 1
Hickathrift, Tom 1
Hickok, Wild Bill 1
Hippocrates 1
Holmes, Sherlock 2
Hopkins, Matthew 1
Houdini 2
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 2
Khan, Genghis 1
Kidd, William 1
Lafayette, General 1
Lancelot 1
Laughing Cavalier 1
Leander 3
Lee, Robert E. 1
Legree, Simon 1
Leonidas 1
Light Brigade 1
Lincoln, Abraham 1
Lister, Joseph 2
Marable, Fate 1
Masterson, Bat 1
Mercury 4
Milo Of Croton 2
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
Nightingale, Florence 1
Noah 1
Nobel, Alfred 1
Nobody 1
Nostradamus 2
O'Brien, David 1
Oakley, Annie 1
Og 1
Osceola 1
Paddock, Charley 1
Penelope 1
Perseus 1
Pheidippides 1
Pinkerton, Allan 1
Plastic Man 1
Porthos 2
Post, Wiley 1
Prometheus 1
Quixote, Don 1
Revere, Paul 1
Richard the LionHeart 1
Rin-Tin-Tin 2
Robespierre, Maximilien 1
Robin Hood 2
Rogers' Rangers 1
Russell, Lillian 1
Rustum 1
Ryan, Paddy 1
Samson 2
Sandow, Eugen 1
Sayers, Tom 1
Schleyer, Johann 1
Siegfried 1
Silver, Long John 2
Skunk, Jimmy 1
Socrates 1
Solomon 1
Sullivan, John L. 2
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
Villon, Francois 1
Vulcan 1
Washington, George 3
Webster, Daniel 2
Xanthippe 1
Zbyzko, Stanislaus 1

NEXT--Kid Eternity Vs, Dr. Shrinker!!!

From Kid Eternity #8 (1947)

1 comment:

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Poor, confused, Goliath "I'd rather topple a temple" - that's Samson's claim to fame. Apparently, Goliath hasn't recovered from his unfortunate fight with David.