We start in "a western ghost town":
Don't worry, we'll get to that in a bit of final panel rushed bit of exposition. For now, all you have to know, the guy's dead!
He has a friend leave a calling card:
This is the point when, several pages into the story, Kid Eternity and Keeper finally show up! For no particular reason, they're following the offensively stereotypical Native American whom Jed Bailey had hired to put that note up.
But apparently, they're not very good at following.
The good guys obviously need help, so...
(And given that Bridger died in 1881, and assuming that Jed Bailey was at least 20 when he "ran" the local paper, Bailey must be at least 87 years old for this story--likely older!!)
Anyway, Kid and Steve spend the next 3 pages--3 pages!!--exploring secret passages and trap doors and hidden tunnels and cemeteries. The "highlights"?
Anyway...
Leaving aside whether "crusaders"--which crusade?--are "fighters for justice," did you seriously summon these guys from the afterlife just to borrow their armor?!?
Yep.
Well, since he can't shoot 'em, Jed decides to use fire to trap them in the secret tunnel!
Of course, Kid only loves you for your dynamite!
But where did he get it? More exposition, please!
Whew, out of breath from that rushed finale!! Anyway, this was the 70th Kid Eternity story, and our standing are:
| Mercury | 5 |
| Achilles | 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 |
| Bertillon, Alphonse | 2 |
| Bucephalus | 2 |
| Byron, George Gordon | 2 |
| Cody, “Buffalo” Bill | 2 |
| Columbus, Christopher | 2 |
| D'artagnan | 2 |
| de Bergerac, Cyrano | 2 |
| Ericson, Leif | 2 |
| Geronimo | 2 |
| Hercules | 2 |
| Javert | 2 |
| Jove | 2 |
| Khan, Genghis | 2 |
| Leonidas | 2 |
| Lister, Joseph | 2 |
| Milo Of Croton | 2 |
| Neanderthal | 2 |
| Nobel, Alfred | 2 |
| Nobody | 2 |
| Nostradamus | 2 |
| Pheidippides | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Crockett, Davy | 1 |
| Cronson, Gerald | 1 |
| Crusaders | 1 |
| Crusoe, Robinson | 1 |
| Custer, George Armstrong | 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 |
| 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 |
| Lancelot | 1 |
| Larsen, Wolf | 1 |
| Laughing Cavalier | 1 |
| Laveran, Charles | 1 |
| Lee, Robert E. | 1 |
| Legree, Simon | 1 |
| Light Brigade | 1 |
| Lincoln, Abraham | 1 |
| Marable, Fate | 1 |
| Marshall, John | 1 |
| Masterson, Bat | 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 |
| Quixote, Don | 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 |
| Serra, Junipero | 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 |
| Xanthippe | 1 |
| Zbyzko, Stanislaus | 1 |
NEXT--Once again, the hills are alive--with the sound of MURDER!!
From Hit Comics #54 (1948)
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