Florence Nightingale

Few characters in comics can claim the distinction of being the real-life "Lady with the Lamp" herself, but here she is — Florence Nightingale, the legendary pioneer of modern nursing, stepping into the Golden Age pages of Kid Eternity #2 in 1946, brought to life by Bernard Dibble for Quality Comics. She keeps remarkable company in those issues, sharing adventures alongside Kid Eternity, Mr. Keeper, and luminaries like Paul Revere and Robin Hood — exactly the kind of heroic historical figures that made Kid Eternity such a wonderfully inventive series. With appearances preserved in the PS Artbooks Softee reprint collections, she remains a charming footnote in Golden Age history, a reminder of how mid-century comics loved to summon greatness from the past.