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Indiana Jones
"The Mountains of Superstition"
Comic strip
The Young Telegraph
(October 6 - December 22, 1990)
Welsh Publishing Group
Writer: Simon Jowett
Penciler: Phil Gascoine
Letterer: Elitta Fell
1990
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On a campout in the Arizona desert, Indy
and members of his Boy Scout troop discover a haunted cave
system in the nearby mountains.
Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology
This story takes place 1913 Arizona.
Didja Know?
In 1990-1991, The Young Telegraph weekend
supplement to the British newspaper
The Daily
Telegraph published three comic strip storylines of
the adventures of young Indiana Jones.
"The Mountains of Superstition"
was published in twelve parts from October 6 - December 22, 1990
and was the only original story created for the strip. It was
followed by comic strip adaptations of the Young Indiana
Jones novels Young Indiana Jones and the Plantation
Treasure and Young Indiana Jones and the Princess of
Peril (see PopApostle's studies of those two novels for
notes on those comic strips).
The first six installments of the story are titled "Young
Indiana Jones and the
Mountains of Superstition", but the final six installments are
"Young Indiana Jones in the Mountains of Superstition".
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
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. The FSB 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 skips over this time in Indy's
life. In fact, it goes from August 5, 1912 to March 9, 1916...a
period of about 3.5
years! Are we to believe that Indy made no journal entries that
entire time? Perhaps the entries were excised by the Russians
for some reason when it was in their possession?
Characters appearing or mentioned in this story
Tuff
Indiana Jones
Ketts
Zeb
Carter
Jacob Waltz (mentioned only)
Pietr Deveer
