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Indiana Jones
"Tomb of
the Gods" Part 2
Indiana Jones and the Tomb of
the Gods #2
Dark Horse Comics
Story: Rob Williams
Pencils: Steve Scott
Inks: Nathan Massengill
Colors: Michael Atiyeh
Letters: Michael Heisler
Cover: Tony Harris
September 2008
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Indy and Marcus recover the third
piece of the key in Tibet.
Read the
story summary at the Indiana Jones Wiki
Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology
The inside front cover passport suggests that Indy and Marcus
head for Shanghai around June 12, 1936.
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
Marcus Brody
Alex Beresford-Hope
Francis Beresford-Hope (mentioned only, deceased)
Indiana Jones
Henrik Mellberg (mentioned only, deceased)
Tibetan bandits
Jock Lindsey
Marwell O'Brien (mentioned only)
Abner Ravenwood
(mentioned only)
Forrestal
(mentioned only)
Janice Le Roi
Nazi Ahnenerbe
Dr. Friedrich Von Hassell
ship's captain
(mentioned only)
Adolf Hitler
(mentioned only)
Didja Notice?
On page 4,
Alex Beresford-Hope reveals that his father, Francis, died
11 months ago.
Indy recognizes Alex's voice as having an upper-class
English accent and guesses he is Oxford-educated. Recall
that Marcus mentioned having attended
Oxford with
Alex's father in
"Tomb of the Gods" Part
1.
Indy's DC-3 pilot is revealed to be Jock Lindsey, who will
also act as his pilot in Raiders
of the Lost Ark and some other later
adventurers. Jock wears a
New
York Yankees baseball cap.
Indy makes a running getaway from violent natives aboard
Jock's plane, just as he later does in
Raiders of the Lost Ark. From Jock's comment
on page 7, this is a common theme with Indy.
On page 13, Indy tells Alex that "X never marks the spot".
Later, in The Last Crusade, Indy tells his students, "X never,
ever marks the spot."
The map depicting Indy and his troupe's flight from Tibet
to
Shanghai also shows a number or other Chinese cities, as
well as
Taipei in Taiwan. These are all real world
locations.
Studying the two pieces of the key, Indy tells Marcus that
no one's ever seen anything like them before, not Abner, not
Forrestal, no one. He is referring to his old professor
Abner Ravenwood (mentioned, but not seen, in past stories)
and rival professional archeologist Dr. Forrestal (also
previously mentioned-but-not-seen). In
Raiders of the Lost Ark, Forrestal's fate is
seen and Ravenwood is also presumed dead.
Janice makes fun of Indy for carrying a whip, snarking, "Is
there a lot of call for lion tamers in the middle of the
Pacific? Geography may not be your strong suit." In
The Temple of Doom,
Willie similarly made fun of him, asking, "What are you
supposed to be, a lion tamer?"
On page 18, Von Hassell refers to the führer. Führer
is German for "leader" and is the title of Germany's Nazi
leader from 1934-1945, Adolf Hitler.
On page 21, Von Hassell says auf wiedersehen as he
leaves Indy and Le Roi stranded in a sinking lifeboat in the
Pacific Ocean. Auf wiedersehen is German for "goodbye".
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