Oh, there were always been mad scientists or murderers. But most Kid stories early on dealt with hunts for hidden treasure, or helping young folks get their proper inheritance, or stopping crooks running protection rackets. And when we did have killings, it was usually just one or two victims.
Oh, yeah, and Kid stopped Julius Caesar from conquering the 20th century. I almost forgot about that one!
But in the past few stories, we've seen super-villains gain electrical powers and kill dozens, and a crook use Cave Carson's Mighty Mole to kill literally tens of thousands, just to extort $300,000 from a city.
We continue to get a deadlier breed of villain this story, as One-Eye Gootch uses a "fake" lighthouse beacon to cause ships to crash into a local reef:
And he's a bloodthirsty blackguard:
Of course, I have questions:
A) How does he know which ships are carrying gold? Or did they all carry gold, back in the day?
B) If he's sunken a hundred ships, along with killing thousands of sailors, and stolen millions in gold...where's the Coast Guard? The U.S. Navy? (The story makes clear that this island is in U.S. territory...) Investigations from the shipping companies? The governments or companies buying and selling the gold? Has no one noticed a hundred missing ships? Or is this the Bermuda Triangle?!?!
And before you ask why Gootch doesn't quit while he's ahead, as he's already rich?
Kid tries to warn the next passing ship...
Whom does he call for help?
Christian does a fine job of taking command of the ship:
Most of the crew goes off in a lifeboat to get help from the Coast Guard, while our unnamed captain, Kid and Keeper go to explore the lighthouse!
Unfortunately, you shouldn't go into the basement of lighthouses!
One-Eye laughs at your peril!
Now this is Houdini's third appearance, boosting him into a tie for second place. Yet his dialogue here sounds like he thinks that it is his first time back from Eternity!
Do the dead Kid summons remember their trips? Maybe the Kid doesn't pull them out of Eternity in "chronological order"? I'm so confused...
Of course, Harry gets them out...
The big bird gets them away in the nick of time...
Gootch tries to takes them out...
One-Eye decides to end it all, rather than be caught.
"We don't allow crooks down here!"?? See--who the hell needs Aquaman?!?!?
Kid won't take any reward...
This was the 49th Kid Eternity story, and our standing 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 | 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 |
| Cherry Sisters | 1 |
| Christian, Fletcher | 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 |
| Gulliver, Lemuel | 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 | 3 |
| Hopkins, Matthew | 1 |
| Houdini, Harry | 3 |
| 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 |
| Neptune | 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 |
| Roc | 1 |
| 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 |
| Watson, John H | 1 |
| Webster, Daniel | 2 |
| Xanthippe | 1 |
| Zbyzko, Stanislaus | 1 |
NEXT--The 50th Kid Eternity story--featuring the Kid in War Of The Worlds!!
From Kid Eternity #8 (1947)
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