KID ETERNITY I ("Kid", aka Christopher "Kit" Freeman)
Created By: Otto Binder & Sheldon Moldoff
First Appearance: Hit Comics #25 (Dec. 1942)
Role: Summoner
Group Affiliations: None
PL 5 (205)
STRENGTH 1
STAMINA 3
AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 6
DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 3
AWARENESS 3
PRESENCE 3
Skills:
Deception 2 (+5)
Expertise (Arcane Lore) 5 (+8)
Expertise (History) 8 (+11)
Insight 3 (+6)
Investigation 2 (+5)
Perception 3 (+6)
Stealth 2 (+5)
Advantages:
None
Powers:
Insubstantial 4 [20]
Flight 6 (120 mph) [12]
Concealment (Visuals) 4 [8]
Movement 2 (Dimensional Travel 2- Afterlives) [4]
Immunity 1 (Aging) [1]
Summon Historical & Mythological Figures 10 (Extras: 8 Minions +6, Heroic +2) [100]
Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+1 Damage, DC 16)
Initiative +3
Defenses:
Dodge +6 (DC 16), Parry +6 (DC 16), Toughness +3, Fortitude +5, Will +7
Complications:
Motivation (Doing Good)- The Kid's mission is now to do good deeds for the next seventy-five years of his second chance at life.
Relationship (Mr. Keeper)- The record keeper whose mistake cost the Kid his life now assists him on his journey.
Total: Abilities: 38 / Skills: 26--13 / Advantages: 0 / Powers: 145 / Defenses: 9 (205)
Quality Comics' Kid Eternity:
-Kid Eternity was a Golden Age character debuting for Quality Comics, with one of the big old-school writers, Otto Binder, creating him. Quality was getting rid of the old cover characters in
Hit Comics (including the Red Bee & Neon the Unknown), dumping them for acts like Kid Eternity. The character proved popular enough that he got his own solo book in 1946- you had to be a pretty big deal to survive AFTER the War! However, the post-War bust of the era soon hit, and his book was cancelled three years later, and he lost his role in
Hit Comics to Jeb Rivers, a... riverboat captain? Jesus, a RIVERBOAT CAPTAIN comic? They really had EVERYTHING back then. Hey, it was big in Twain's day, and
The African Queen was around then- it might have been a big thing. Who knows, if the business had changed the right way, my thread would have included like fifteen riverboat captains, with all of us debating which Creator's Pet riverboat captain sucked, and which riverboat captain should have been a bigger deal.
-Kid Eternity was a nameless boy (just called "Kid" by his Gran'pa) who was killed in a U-Boat attack, which sank his grandfather's fishing boat. Due to a supernatural mix-up, however, he was killed seventy-five years TOO EARLY (copying a 1941 film
Here Comes Mr. Jordan)- the solution- bringing him back to life for another 75 years, with the mission of upholding good in the world. He was given the VERY unique ability to summon any good historical or mythological figure in world history, or any animal, just by saying the word "Eternity!".
-His enemies included Her Highness, an old lady, and Silk, her attractive assistant- their humorous antics and get-rich-quick schemes were a central part of the stories, and even led to their own feature in
Kid Eternity! His Mirror Image Villain was Master Ma, who was given the Kid's powers by the Devil- saying "Stygia!", he can summon any EVIL historical or mythological figure!
Earth-S Kid Eternity:
-The character disappeared after 1949, but DC being DC, they gathered up all the Quality Comics characters and tried to get SOME use out of them- the early 1970s saw him retconned into the MARVEL FAMILY of all things, and he ended up on Earth-S instead of Earth-X like the other Quality characters (the Freedom Fighters). This was, due to the similarity in their "Magic Word" powers. Now, he is retconned in as the BROTHER of Freddy Freeman- "Kit", and the accident that killed him was now the same one that crippled Freddy!-As Kid Eternity, he assisted the Marvel Family in
Shazam! stories, but didn't appear all that much, though Her Highness, Silk, and Master Man all showed up. Kid Eternity vanished after the Crisis on Infinite Earths- the Marvel Family were slotted back into the DC Universe, but Kit didn't make the cut. Despite that, he appeared in my one
DC Who's Who comic alongside Kid Flash, Kid Devil, Kole, Kamandi and others, which is why I always found it odd that Freddy was an only child in the modern DCU.
Kid Eternity's Stats:
-Summon is, rightfully, one of the most expensive powers in the game if you have any kind of decent amount of it, especially with Extras. And so this PL 5 kid with nothing-to-write-home-about stats costs more than most PL 12 PCs, by virtue of that ridiculous power. There is apparently
a big feat list at ComicVine including scenes of him just doing any old outlandish thing, like summoning the ENTIRE Light Brigade to aid him, which would boost his cost to literally hundreds more points (adding hundreds of Minions).