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Indiana Jones
"End Run"
The Further Adventures of
Indiana Jones
#22
Marvel Comics
Plot: David Michelinie
Script: Jim Owsley
Pencils: Joe Brozowski
Inks: Mel Candido
Letters: Diana Albers
Colorist: Robbie Carosella
Cover: Joe Brozowski (pencils),
Mel Candido (inks)
October 1984
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The conclusion of the Arnhem Ring saga!
Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology
This takes place immediately after the events of "Beyond the Lucifer Chamber", in 1936.
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
Tarrant (possibly killed in this issue)
Austin "Cutter" Coleridge
Marcus Brody
Marion Ravenwood
Ben Ali Ayoob (dies in this issue)
Adolf Hitler (mentioned only)
Abner Ravenwood
(mentioned only, presumed deceased)
Hans Degen (dies in this issue)
Juan Soto (mentioned only, deceased)
Ismailis
Didja Notice?
On page 4, Indy and Marcus explain to Marion how the Arnhem
Ring business they're all currently embroiled in began. Indy
first found the ring in "Blood
and Sand", brought it to the National Museum in
"Swords and Spikes",
then later found it to have been replaced with a fake in
"The Cuban Connection".
On page 5, fraulein is German for "miss".
In panels 1 and 2 of page 6, it appears that Indy's dialog
has been given to Degen and vice versa.
Ayoob's
Ismailis were introduced in
"Blood and Sand".
On page 7, Ayoob comments on the artifact called the Devil's
Heart he now keeps on his fireplace mantle. The artifact
was first seen in
"Beyond the Lucifer Chamber".
After dispatching the Ismailis, on page 9 Degen remarks,
"Ten Ismailis fall to one Aryan..." He is referring to the
so-called "Aryan race", a 19th-century racial theory that is
widely discredited and rejected in modern times due to its
racist, pseudoscientific nature, of a noble "master" race of
humanity, usually described physically as white-skinned and
blonde. The Nazi party of Degen's Germany believed in the
Aryan myth.
Ayoob tells us the Devil's Heart artifact (introduced to us
in
"Beyond the Lucifer Chamber")
is said to contain Satan's soul.
On page 12, as Ayoob introduces Indy, Marcus, and Degen to
the deadly fate he has prepared for them, he remarks that
Marion shall live so long as she amuses him. Marion retorts,
"You want amusement? Try the Hardy Boys."
She is referring to the characters Frank and Joe Hardy in
the Hardy
Boys series
of juvenile detective novels published since 1927.
| On page 16, Ayoob seems to
keep his menagerie of beasts all in one cage! At least as far as
his lions and boars go! Seems unlikely that the lions would
not kill the boar! Also, Marion's thoughts refer to the
beasts as "all deadly predators". Although boars are not
commonly thought of as predators, they are omnivores, and are known
to kill and eat small, defenseless animals such as baby
birds, fawns, etc. |
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In panel 2 of page 18, in Degen's dialog, the word "Aryan"
is misspelled "Arayan".
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