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Indiana Jones: Thunder in the Orient (Part 6) Indiana Jones
"Thunder in the Orient" Part 6
Indiana Jones: Thunder in the Orient #6
Dark Horse Comics
Script: Dan Barry
Art: Dan Spiegle
Lettering and Colors: Gail Beckett
Cover: Hugh Fleming
April 1994

The expedition reaches the final shrine in the quest for the Covenant of Buddha.

 

Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology

 

Indiana Jones: Thunder in the Orient is a 6-issue mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics in 1993-94. The story takes place in October 1938.

 

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 shortly after the events of The Last Crusade in June 1938 to those of The Fate of Atlantis in May 1939. Almost a year gap seemingly left un-journaled.

 

Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue

 

Lord General Masashi Kyojo (dies in this issue)

Japanese soldiers

Hankow rail station patrons

Indiana Jones

train engineers

Serpent Lady

Serpent Lady's army

Captain Lao Pei

Dr. Sophie Hapgood

Khamal

Dr. Patar Kali

Ch'ao the Red (dies in this issue)

Ch'ao the Red's army

Colonel Fang

 

Didja Notice?

 

The hijacked train carrying the Serpent Lady's army and Indy's expedition runs along the Yangtze River. This is an actual river in the Hankow area and is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world.

 

This issue reveals that the Serpent Lady's real name is U Paw.

 

The Japanese air fighters that strafe Ch'ao's village on pages 14-15 look very much like the famed Mitsubishi A6M Zero of WWII (in fact Indy even refers to them as "Jap Zeros"), but that plane was not manufactured and introduced until 1940.

 

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