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The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #10
 Marvel Comics
Plot: Archie Goodwin
Script: David Michelinie
Pencils: Dan Reed
Inks: Danny Bulanadi
Letters: Joe Rosen
Colors: Bob Sharen
Cover: Howard Chaykin and Bob Wiacek
October 1983

Indy follows the trail of Xomec and Ilsa Toht to recover the thrice-stolen Chachapoyan idol.

 

Read the story summary at the Indiana Jones Wiki

 

Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology

 

This issue takes place in 1936.

 

Didja Know?

 

The plot/script for this issue is by regular writer David Michelinie, from an idea by Archie Goodwin. The nod to Goodwin occurs a few times in the course of the The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones series. The letters column of The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #17 explains that this is because Goodwin had worked up a number of story ideas for a potential Indiana Jones newspaper comic strip, which never came to fruition, so he gave the ideas to Michelinie to use in the comic book if he desired. Goodwin was a frequent writer and editor for Marvel Comics.

 

This two-part story from The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #s 9 and 10 was adapted into a game module for the Adventures of Indiana Jones role-playing game published by TSR.

 

Notes from The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones

 

The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones is a 2008 publication that purports to be Indy's journal as seen throughout The Young Indiana Chronicles TV series and the big screen Indiana Jones movies. The publication is also annotated with notes from a functionary of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation, the successor agency of the Soviet Union's KGB security agency. The KGB relieved Indy of his journal in 1957 during the events of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The notations imply the journal was released to other governments by the FSB in the early 21st Century. However, some bookend segments of The Young Indiana Chronicles depict Old Indy still in possession of the journal in 1992. The discrepancy has never been resolved. 

 

The journal as published does not mention the events of this issue, going from the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1936 to Indy's recovery of the Cross of Coronado in 1938 in The Last Crusade.

 

Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue

 

Indiana Jones

Hovitos warrior

Marion Ravenwood

Carver (guard, mentioned only)

Xomec

Marcus Brody

Ilsa Toht (may or may not be dead at the end of this issue)

Hovitos warriors

Ernst Toht (mentioned only, deceased)

 

Didja Notice?

 

Plummeting from the building when Xomec knocks the ladder bridge loose, Indy manages to grab hold of a flagpole, and Marion exclaims that sometimes she swears he has the luck of a saint. He responds that if she doesn't get a rope and pull him up, she's going to hear some language that would make every saint in the Vatican blush.

 

The Diamond Eye nightclub in the Manhattan borough of New York City on page 5 was previously seen in "Xomec's Raiders".

 

The steamboat Indy takes up the Amazon River to Manaus, Brazil is the S.S. Williamson.

 

On page 11, Ilsa Toht tells Indy she wants vengeance against him for her brother, who died due to Indy's interference in the lost Ark affair. This is a highly biased view of the events at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, as it seems likely Ernst Toht would have had his face melted off by the Ark at the ceremonial opening even without Indy's involvement (and Indy was a mere captive at the time, as it is!).

 

On page 17, Indy reflects on the popular phrase "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." However, the witticism is believed to have originated in the coaching of American football in the 1950s, so Indy should not have heard it yet!

 

On page 18, Ilsa says "Nein!" This is German for "No!"

 

On page 20, Indy sardonically thinks that Ilsa is ready for the Luftwaffe. The Luftwaffe was the German air force from 1935-1946.

 

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