The Highness Of Rip-Offs

Kid Eternity was one of the few solo teenage superheroes of the Golden Age that wasn't a sidekick and gained the power to summon up anyone from history like they were his own personal Pokemon. Creators Otto Binder and Sheldon Moldoff had Kid fighting everybody from Nazis to regular hoods, but the only adversary that managed to stick around was the feisty but elderly con woman referred to as Her Highness. She and her gorgeous strongarm Silk crossed paths with Kid Eternity on two occasions and was popular enough to get her own segment starting in Hit Comics 28 where the two of them escape jail again after just being run back in. The diminutive deceiver hijacks a bus and beats it to California hoping to find bigger suckers than those in Kid Eternity's town and literally beat their way through some police once they hit the state line. Since it's 1943, the California city Highness and Silk get to are celebrating the survivors of a torpedo attack by the Japanese, so Highness gets the brilliant idea to steal a rowboat and pretend that they are also survivors to get some free press. Within a matter of minutes, Highness and Silk coincidentally come across a Japanese submarine on patrol who tick Highness off by calling her an old crow, so the two molls smash the sailors. Even luckier, an American patrol boat shows up and tugs the sub and rowboat back to the shore. Highness and Silk think that the Californians are mad at them for making off with the rowboat so they hightail it out of there when it turns out the massive crowd showed up to greet them were actually cheering them for beating up the enemy sailors, so the two villains were heralded as heroes but couldn't enjoy it because they were too paranoid about getting hauled to the hoosegow. Her Highness managed to work her way into the annals of comic history as being not only one of the first villains to getting their own titled installments in a monthly comic, but she's also one of the first reoccurring comic book villainesses. Highness and Silk didn't reach the levels of nefariousness that would've landed them a spot in the Legion Of Doom, although they did manage to become infamous as a pair of wannabe criminal masterminds at a time when you didn't need a space gauntlet to be accepted as a supervillain.

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