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Indiana Jones: Facing Death Indiana Jones
"Facing Death"
Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures #1
GE Fabbri Ltd.
Writer: Unknown
Pencils: John Royle
Inks: Philip Moy
Colour: Dylan Teague
2008

A greedy, unscrupulous colleague needs Indy's help to decipher the glyphs on an Egyptian stone to uncover the lost tomb of Azudab.

 

Read the story summary at the Indiana Jones Wiki

 

Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology

 

This story takes place in Egypt, 1939.

 

Didja Know?

 

Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures was a British bi-weekly magazine for kids featuring historical information, games, puzzles, comics, and plastic relic toys. "Facing Death" is a 4-page comic book story that appeared in Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures #1.

 

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 story, going from entries about the events of The Fate of Atlantis in May 1939 to Indy's time working with Colonel George "Mac" McHale during 1944. A five year gap seemingly left un-journaled.

 

Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue

 

Azudab the Great (mentioned only, deceased)

Indiana Jones

Dafoe

Henry Jones, Sr.

Ahmed 

 

Didja Notice?

 

The pharaoh Azudab the Great as mentioned in this story is a fictitious Egyptian ruler.

 

Inside Azudab's tomb, Indy finds Osiris painted on the wall. Osiris is the ancient Egyptian god of the dead and the afterlife.

 

On Azudab's death mask, Indy recognizes the crocodile adornment on it as Ammit the Destroyer, the Eater of Hearts. This refers to the ancient Egyptian female goddess Ammit, who had a body that was made up of crocodile, lion, and hippopotamus. In Egyptian theology, when a person died, their heart was weighed by Anubis, god of funerary rites, for purity and if it was found wanting, it would be fed to Ammit, denying the person's soul the completion of the journey to Osiris and immortality.

 

Indy's father refers to Dafoe as a "troglodyte". "Troglodyte" is a popular generic term for a caveman or -woman.

 

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