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I've never quite figured out Kid Eternity. His basic concept has too many contradictions. Is he completely dead? You'd think so, since he hangs around Heaven (aka Eternity) with a celestial agent. But in his earthly visits he seems mortal. He can be knocked out or injured and seems to fear being killed (again?) by the latest villain. Mr Keeper is also a puzzle. He too seems able to have a physical form while on earth. He just chooses not to most of the time. Kid E's stories are rather repetitive: he gets in a jam, calls up a series of historical characters until he finds the right one, and the story ends.

Despite all this Kid Eternity appealed to enough readers to support 36 appearances in Hit Comics and 18 issues of his own mag. Years later DC got hold of him and retrofitted him into being an unknowing tool of the forces of Evil and Mr Keeper was Evil and Eternity was Evil and Evil Evil Evil. Bleah. [Oh, and his late grandpa molested him. The lovely world of DC.]

Link to the book: Kid Eternity 01