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Indiana Jones
"Crystal Death"
The Further Adventures of
Indiana Jones
#8
Marvel Comics
Plot/Script: David Michelinie
Art: Kerry Gammill and Sam De La Rosa
Letters: Janice Chiang
Colors: Paul Becton
Cover: Howard Chaykin and Terry
Austin
August 1983
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Indy and the Nazis encounter the remnant
Shintay people of Atlantis!
Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology
This issue takes place in 1936.
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
Indiana Jones
Marion Ravenwood
Colonel Curt Johan Vogel (dies in this issue)
Vogel's men
(die in this issue)
Korporal Brunner
(dies in this issue)
Shintays
(die in this issue)
Ian McIver
Vyperion Rex
(dies in this issue)
British missionary (skull only, deceased)
Didja Notice?
Hiding in a cave to elude the Nazis, Indy and Marion soon
hear an animal's growl from the darkness in the back of the
cave. Indy tells Marion not to scream, which would attract
the Nazis, after all the animal could be something "totally
harmless, like a chimp or an aardvark..." However,
chimpanzees are hardly "totally harmless". There have been a
number of instances of chimps attacking and mauling humans,
causing severe injuries, permanent disfigurement, and even
death.
On page 4, fraulein is German for "miss".
When Indy, Marion, McIver, and the Nazis are confronted by
Shintay warriors, one of the warriors shouts,
"Peechalay! Sawm Kreesto!" and "Kreenko
hala-mooska! Tuta!" The first declaration actually
appears to be in the old Gujarati language of the Indian
state of Gujarat, and translates as something like "Last!
Hail Christ!"
As he is tied to an altar pole by the Shintay,
Korporal Brunner shouts at them to unhand him and calls them
schwein. This is German for "pig".
On page 9, Brunner says lieber gott. This is German
for "dear God".
On page 12, Vogel says nein. This is German for
"no".
On page 15, Vogel says kameraden and schnell.
These is German for "comrades" and "quickly".
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