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Indiana Jones: Tomb of the Gods (Part 4) Indiana Jones
"Tomb of the Gods" Part 4
Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods
#4
Dark Horse Comics
Story: Rob Williams
Art: Bart Sears
Colors: Michael Atiyeh
Letters: Michael Heisler
Ink finishes (pages 15-22): Randy Elliott
Cover: Steve Scott, Nathan Massengill & Michael Atiyeh
March 2009

Our heroes and villains discover an underground temple to an alien god.

 

Read the story summary at the Indiana Jones Wiki

 

Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology

 

A mock-up of Indy's passport on the inside front cover of all four issues of this mini-series suggests it takes place in late May and early June. This issue's passport mock-up includes a stamp for "Siberia" with a date of 25 June 1936 (though the story of this mini-series doesn't seem to depict nearly that much time to have passed from Indy in Shanghai on June 12 to arriving in Siberia (not that Indy even passed through a customs port while he was in that isolated region).

 

Didja Know?

 

Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods is a four-issue comic book mini-series that was published by Dark Horse Comics in 2008. 

 

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 mini-series, going from the end of The Temple of Doom to Indy trying to track the whereabouts of Dr. Abner Ravenwood and segueing into the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

 

Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue

 

Indiana Jones

Janice Le Roi

Dr. Friedrich Von Hassell (dies in this issue)

Nazi Ahnenerbe (die in this issue)

Alex Beresford-Hope (dies in this issue)

Marcus Brody

Henrik Mellberg (mentioned only, deceased)

Adolf Hitler (mentioned only)

Francis Beresford-Hope (mentioned only, deceased)

Marwell O'Brien (mentioned only) 

 

Didja Notice?

 

The tentacled creature(s) sculpted over the humongous underground tomb discovered by Indy's troupe and the Ahnenerbe is suggestive of the Cthulu mythos of H.P. Lovecraft, tales of cosmic horror where humanity's material world is just a thin veil over an abstract and alien reality ruled by demonic cosmic gods.

 

Discovering a gigantic star map on the roof of the cavernous space, Von Hassell speculates it may be a map to the home of whatever built the tomb, and goes on to say that his führer already has great men such as Hermann Oberth and Werner Von Braun working on rocket technology that may one day soon be able to take Germany to the stars. Oberth and Von Braun were German rocket scientists who worked for Nazi Germany during WWII.

 

Von Hassell remarks that Francis Beresford-Hope and his colleagues found their two parts of the key in Popigai, Siberia, the site of a huge impact crater millions of years old. This is true.

 

The pistol Von Hassell threatens Alex with appears to be a Luger P08.

 

Indy's eyes are colored blue in this issue, but actor Harrison Ford's eyes are hazel. Actually, everyone in this issue who gets a close-up has blue eyes!

 

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