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Indiana Jones: Deadly Rock Indiana Jones
"Deadly Rock"
The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones
#13
Marvel Comics
Script/Plot*: David Michelinie
*With a tip of the felt fedora to Archie Goodwin
Pencils: Ricardo Villamonte
Inks: Sam De La Rosa
Letters: Joe Rosen
Colors: Bob Sharen
Cover: Bret Blevins
January 1984


Trouble always follows Indy...even when he takes his class on a field trip.

 

Read the story summary at the Indiana Jones Wiki

 

Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology

 

This issue takes place in 1936.

 

Didja Know?

 

The direct edition cover (meaning it was sold in comic book speciality shops) of this issue has a "stamp" in the UPC box stating it is Assistant Editors Month. This was a one-time special event that took place across most the comic books published by Marvel Comics with a cover date of January 1984. Due to all of the head editors of Marvel being at the 1983 San Diego Comic Con when these issues were produced, the assistant editors were in charge and they introduced one-time humorous or offbeat elements in these issues, in many cases, within the main story itself. For this issue of The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones,  the offbeat element was simply a one-page backup story featuring the assistant editor, Eliot Brown, as Massachusetts Brown in a tale called "Raiders Of The Late Book."

 

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

 

Lucy Giles

Indiana Jones

Indy's students

Eva

Warren

Oinkster

Dominic

Joel

Marcus Brody

Marion Ravenwood (mentioned only)

Clair (mentioned only)

Busby Giles' thugs

Busby Giles

Mel

Oscar

Busby Giles' mother (mentioned only)

police 

 

Didja Notice?

 

The story opens with Indy having taken his advanced archeology students at Marshall College on a field trip to a cliff-dwelling Indian territory in Arizona.

 

The two thugs Oinkster and Dominic, who work for the gangster Busby Giles, pretend they are agents of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). But this federal agency was actually known as the Office of Indian Affairs at the time, becoming Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1947.

 

On page 7, Indy, on the phone with Marcus, tells him the two supposed BIA agents were about as kosher as a ham-on-rye. "Kosher" refers to foods that conform to certain Jewish dietary restrictions, including the absence of any pork products from food. Thus, a ham-on-rye sandwich would most definitely be non-kosher! The word "kosher" has come to mean, in a wider sense, anything that conforms to accepted rules.

 

On page 11, Busby Giles tells Indy he's building a new Hole-in-the-Wall for the modern day criminals, like the infamous Hole-in-the-Wall once used by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and others in their day. The original Hole-in-the-Wall in Wyoming was a gap in the so-called Red Wall of cliffs about 40 miles southwest of Kaycee, Wyoming used by criminal gangs to move rustled horses and cattle in the late 1800s. There was a log cabin there used by the assorted outlaws as needed. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were American train and bank robbers in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

 

On page 13, the buses carrying Indy's students leave the campsite for Tucson after Busby Giles' threat.

 

On page 16, Busby reveals that his daughter had been attending Vassar before he had her transferred to Marshall College to attend Indy's class to keep an eye on him and his proposed field trip to the mountain where Busby is building the new Hole-in-the-Wall. "Vassar" refers to Vassar College, a New York women's college at the time, now coeducational.

 

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