17 Facts About Kid Eternity

1.

Kid Eternity sold the Quality Comics line to his competitor, DC Comics.

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2.

Kid Eternity was rebooted in 1991 by Grant Morrison with a new focus and backstory; the character has appeared sporadically since then.

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3.

Kid Eternity was brought in from the start as the new cover feature for Hit.

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4.

Kid Eternity proved to be popular enough that when Quality Comics began expanding their post-war line, the Kid got his own self-titled comic book, Kid Eternity, in the spring of 1946.

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5.

In November 1949, Kid Eternity's self-titled magazine was discontinued and his lead slot in Hit Comics was given over to Jeb Rivers, a riverboat captain.

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6.

Kid Eternity was given the power to summon any good historical or mythological figure or animal by saying the word "Eternity" as well as to use the same word to make himself material or immaterial and invisible.

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7.

Kid Eternity was further assisted on his duties by the clerk who'd made the error, Mr Keeper.

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8.

Kid Eternity is sometimes shown summoning fictional figures, like Jean Valjean or the Witches in Macbeth.

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9.

Unlike most of the Quality stable, who were depicted as living on the parallel world Earth-X, Kid Eternity was retconned into the Marvel Family of Earth-S, which DC had acquired from another former competitor, Fawcett Comics.

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10.

Kid Eternity is shown to live in the same neighbourhood as Shazam and the Elders, Eternity.

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11.

The Kid Eternity goes there and sees Billy but is coshed by the thug.

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12.

Kid Eternity's powers prove a valuable asset at least once when a villain cast a magical black void around the Marvel Family in their regular forms, thus preventing them from calling down the magic lightning to change.

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13.

Earth-S was merged with Earths One, Two, 4 and X in Crisis on Infinite Earths and Kid Eternity vanished along with the original version of the Marvel Family.

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14.

The Kid Eternity arrives at an artificial heaven created by the supernatural Lords of Chaos, who make the Kid Eternity their unwitting servant by convincing him he had been killed too early and that they would return him to life for the error.

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15.

Kid Eternity can choose any person or fictional character, without regard to "good" or "evil" to bring back.

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16.

Kid Eternity appeared in a new National Comics one-shot issue written by Jeff Lemire and drawn by Cully Hamner.

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17.

Kid Eternity's origin was revised again, thanks to the reality-warping events from 2011's Flashpoint and The New 52.

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