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Indiana Jones: Good as Gold Indiana Jones
"Good as Gold"
The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #25
 Marvel Comics
Scripter: Linda Grant
Penciler: Steve Ditko
Inker: Danny Bulanadi
Letterer: Diana Albers
Colorist: Robbie Carosella
Cover: Michael Golden
January 1986

Indy is called to the Peruvian Andes to translate a stone tablet unearthed by an archeological colleague.

 

Read the story summary at the Indiana Jones Wiki

 

Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology

 

This story takes place in 1936.

 

Didja Know?

 

The antagonist of this issue, Ivar Reiss, also appears in the 1984 computer game Indiana Jones in the Lost Kingdom made for the Commodore 64 computer. It would seem that this issue's writer, Linda Grant, borrowed the name from the earlier game. Reiss seemingly dies at the end of this issue and it does not seem that he and Indy had ever met before, so the game might be considered non-canonical.

 

This issue is the first appearance of archeologist Jessie Hale. She appears again in "Shot By Both Sides".

 

Marion Ravenwood makes her final appearance in The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones with this issue, growing angry with Indy for constantly standing her up, so she takes off for other climes. Marvel Age Annual #1 (1985) indicated that a story about Indy investigating Marion's supposed death in Africa was to begin in The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #35, but the title was cancelled after issue #34.

 

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

 

Jessie Hale
Indiana Jones

Ivar Reiss (seemingly dies in this issue)

Gregory (seemingly dies in this issue)
Ivar's thugs (seemingly die in this issue)

Marion Ravenwood

Marcus Brody

Edgard Reiss (mentioned only) 

 

Didja Notice?

 

Indy's colleague Jessie Hale works for the American Institute for Natural History. This appears to be a fictitious entity.

 

Jessie has unearthed an inscribed stone slab in the Peruvian Andes mountain range that she believes is the key to discovering the legendary lost city of El Dorado. El Dorado is a legendary lost city of gold alleged to exist from the time of the Muisca Confederation of American Indians in Columbia before the 16th Century. El Dorado means "the golden one" in Spanish.

 

On page 8, an irate Marion tells Marcus she cut short her trip to Chicago because Indy wanted her to be at Marshall College for a seminar he was going to give in the lecture hall. When he doesn't show (due to his having been called to Peru), she storms out, exclaiming, "I'm through being kicked around by Indiana Jones!"

 

In panel 2 of page 13, notice that Reiss' goon Gregory now has a cloth wrapped around his head like a woman's headscarf, due to the pot of scalding hot coffee Indy threw at him during his and Jessie's escape on page 10.

 

After escaping Reiss and his men, Indy and Jessie arrive aboard the train in Estarca. Estarca is a small village in the Andes of Bolivia. As far as I can tell, there is no train station there.

 

As the gold fortress starts to crumble on page 20, one of Reiss' men shouts, "Madre de Dios!" This is Spanish for "Mother of God!"

 

After the fortress collapses, Indy and Jessie argue about his solution for escaping from Reiss and his men and Indy says, "Well if that's the way you're going to be...next time you need a translator, try the Works Project Administration." In 1936, this was actually known as the Works Progress Administration (changed in 1939 to Work Projects Administration) an American federal government agency that employed jobseekers to carry out public works projects such as the construction of roads and public buildings.

 

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