One Panel #743: Introducing... Kid Eternity!

From Kid Eternity: "The Kid Who Died Too Soon" by Otto Binder and Sheldon Moldoff, Hit Comics #25 (December 1942)

Based on Fawcett Comics' success with Shazam, a company clearly obsessed with magic words, Quality comes up with Kid Eternity, a boy who dies too soon and is sent back to our world with the power to summon anyone from history and pseudo-history to help him by shouting out the magic word "Eternity!" (so another hero who can't say his own name). Mr. Keeper steps right out of It's a Wonderful Life (well, he might if this hadn't been published 4 years before Capra's film came out) to mentor him after making his first mistake in 2000 years. I guess that's one way to atone.

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George Chambers said…
Kid Eternity was a Quality Comics property, not Fawcett. DC bought most of the Quality characters including the Kid, as well as buying many of the Fawcett characters. DC later established that Kid was Freddy Freeman (Captain Marvel Jr.)'s brother, I believe, due to the two of them having such similar origin stories.
January 13, 2024 at 7:37 AM
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