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In panel 3 of page 3, it looks as if an empty word balloon has been omitted by simply fuzzing the edges to look like a cloud!

 

The flashback on pages 3-4 refers to events in the previous issue, "Island of Peril".

 

On page 5, que is Spanish for "what".

 

On page 8, hai is Japanese for "yes".

 

On page 10, bueno and mi amigo are Spanish for "good" and "my friend".

 

Vasquez forces one of her men to play a round of Russian roulette as discipline for his stealing artifacts from the temple that belonged to the entire crew. Russian roulette is a game of chance in which a revolver is loaded with a single round, the cylinder is spun, and the player places the muzzle against their head and pulls the trigger, hoping they haven't landed on the loaded chamber. Of course, we see at the end that Vasquez cheated and had all six chambers of the cylinder loaded.

 

On page 11, mon captaine is French for "my captain" and momento is Spanish for "one moment".

 

On page 12, Günther says, "Yawohl, Emeralda!" Yawohl is German for "yes".

 

Indy's idea of including a dead body along with the debris and fuel oil shot out of the submarine's torpedo tubes may have been borrowed from a similar idea used by a Romulan commander in the classic Star Trek episode "Balance of Terror".

 

On page 16, as Vasquez's pirates greedily gather up the gold and jewels Indy's sub crew have released attached to life jackets, one of the pirates is thinking, "Now I can buy mom back from Rudolfo!" Rudolfo was seen to be one of Vasquez's more trusted crew members in "Island of Peril", so it may be that Rudolfo is holding this pirate's mother to coerce him into working with Vasquez's crew. This is known as shanghaiing, abducting men and forcing them to work on ships bound for international waters.

 

On page 16, Vasquez thinks, "Madre de Dios!" This is Spanish for "Mother of God!"

 

On page 20, Vasquez uses the word yanqui for Indy. This is Spanish for "yankee". "Yankee" as a term refers to a person from the United States in other countries.

 

At the end of the story, the Japanese cruiser and the Bantu Wind part for different destinations, the narration stating, "...one carrying history...the other bearing the portent of history yet to come." The "one carrying history" is the Bantu Wind with its cargo of artifacts proving the arrival of ancient Chinese mariners in the western waters much earlier than previously thought. "The portent of history yet to come" refers to the Japanese cruiser and the foreshadow of Imperial Japan's involvement in WWII in just few a years.

 

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