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Indiana Jones
"Big Game"
The Further Adventures of
Indiana Jones
#31
Marvel Comics
Scripter: Linda Grant
Penciler: Ricardo Villamonte
Inker: Danny Bulanadi
Letterer: Diana Albers
Colorist: George Roussos
Cover: Keith Pollard
September 1985
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Indy meets Congo Kate, who is in the
Pacific Northwest on the hunt for...Bigfoot!
Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology
The opening narrative states it is 1937, with Indy headed
home from an expedition to China. This suggests that the story
takes place shortly after the events of the previous issue,
"Fireworks", which took place in
China.
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
Smitty
Indiana Jones
"Congo" Kate Crawford
Robert Thundercloud
Robert Thundercloud's grandfather (mentioned only)
Canyon Creek doctor
(mentioned only)
Sheriff Hyatt
goon squad
bar patrons
bartender
Mayor Clayton Dunn
Zack
Didja Notice?
The pilot called Smitty who flies Indy back to the States
from China appears to be a different man from the pilot
called Smitty who turned out to be a German agent in
"Gateway to Infinity".
On page 3, Congo Kate and Thundercloud arrive on the scene
in what appears to be a
common military Jeep. But the first Willys Jeep was not
produced until 1941.
Kate tells Indy she is there in
the forests of Washington state hunting Bigfoot. Bigfoot is
a cryptozoological hominid some people believe lives
(mostly) in the American northwest. Thundercloud adds that
his people have long had legends about the creature, which
they call Sasquatch. It seems unlikely that Kate would use
the "Bigfoot" term in 1937, as the term was not (or very
little) known until it appeared in a Humboldt Times
newspaper article in 1958. Sasquatch is a legitimate term of
the time, coined by Canadian Indian agent J.W. Burns in the
1930s from the Native American Salish Nation word
Sasq'ets, meaning "hairy man".
Indy tells Kate he read about her big game hunting exploits
in Liberty magazine and she counters that there
have been a few articles about him in it as well.
Liberty was a real world American weekly magazine
from 1924-1950 (with a new version published from
1971-1976).
Indy, Kate, and Thundercloud take Smitty for medical care in
a small town called Canyon Creek. This is an actual town in
Snohomish County, Washington.
When Indy turns down Kate's offer to accompany her on the
Bigfoot hunt for the second time, she asserts, "That's the
trouble with you, Jones--no sense of adventure."
At the end of the story, Indy, Kate, and Smitty take off
from Dwyer Airfield. This appears to be a fictitious
airstrip in Washington.
It is hinted that Kate and Indy hook up briefly in
Connecticut after the plane ride from Washington. She is
not seen or mentioned again in the following issues though.
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