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Indiana Jones: Skull Duggery Indiana Jones
"Skull Duggery"
Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures #2
GE Fabbri Ltd.
Writer: Unknown
Pencils: John Royle
Inks: Philip Moy
Colour: Dylan Teague
2008

On the hunt for a lost sacred tribal flute in in the jungles of Bolivia, Indy comes up against the force of a crystal skull that may not be quite what it seems.

 

Read the story summary at the Indiana Jones Wiki

 

Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology

 

This story takes place in Bolivia, 1940.

 

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. "Skull Duggery" is a 4-page comic book story that appeared in Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures #2.

 

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 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

 

Indiana Jones

Tuxa

Jasy Kuña/Josie Kelland

Guaraní tribespeople

 

Didja Notice?

 

The object Indy is searching for in Bolivia, the Golden Jaguar Flute, appears to be a fictitious artifact.

 

Indy figures if anyone should know the whereabouts of the flute, the Guaraní tribe should. The Guaraní are an actual South American indigenous people of the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia.

 

In the Guaraní village, Indy meets a white woman calling herself Jasy Kuña who has brought a crystal skull to the tribe, using it to allegedly cure the tribespeople of a sickness that had struck them. Indy has encountered a number of crystal skulls in his adventures thus far, and will come into contact with others in 1957 in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

 

Indy finds a plant called belladonna in Jasy's tent which he believes she is using to drug the villagers into worshipping her and giving her precious gifts. Belladonna is a real world plant (Atropa bella-donna) whose berries and leaves are very toxic. Indy later says that toadstools that grow under pine trees contain an antidote to belladonna. As far as I can find, this is fictitious. There’s no proven, safe, reliable natural antidote that reverses belladonna poisoning.

 

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