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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
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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." |
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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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