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Indiana Jones
"Demons"
The Further Adventures of
Indiana Jones
#14
Marvel Comics
Plot/Script: David Michelinie
Pencils: David Mazuchelli
Inks: The Saint (Vince Colletta)
Letters: Joe Rosen
Colors: Robbie Carosella
Cover: Bret Blevins
February 1984
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An accountant at the National Museum finds
an old trunk full of bones and relics hidden in a wall of the
building.
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story summary at the Indiana Jones Wiki
Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology
This story 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
Marshall College students
Studebaker dealer (mentioned only)
Marcus Brody
Marion Ravenwood
Harvey Pondexter (dies in this issue)
Abner Ravenwood
(mentioned only, presumed deceased)
Milos Fortier (in flashback only, deceased)
Fortier's colleagues
(mentioned only)
Fortier's wife
(mentioned only)
McNally
Ed
Marty
Rosie
Collins
Didja Notice?
As this issue opens, Indy is teaching Archeology 223 at
Marshall College.
On page 1, the words "phratry" and "moieties" are written on
the classroom chalk board behind Indy as he lectures.
"Phratry" is a group of male city-state citizens in Ancient
Greece. "Moieties" refers to two groups into which a society
may be divided.
Also on the chalk board, is a reading assignment for the
class, "A Treatise on Cultural Organization" by Lewis
Richmond. This is a fictitious book and author. The name
"Lewis Richmond" is a reversal of "Richmond Lewis", an
American painter who is the wife of this issue's penciler
David Mazuchelli.
On page 2, a hot-air balloon is dropping leaflets over the
college campus and, as he reaches out of the classroom
window to grab one, Indy assumes it is going to be an
advertisement for the Studebaker dealership in town again.
Studebaker was a U.S. automobile maker from 1852-1967. The town
referred to would be the fictitious Bedford, Connecticut
where Marshall College is said to exist in the Indiana
Jones universe.
Upon reading the leaflet, Indy sees that it is actually an
advertisement for a new exhibit at the National Museum, the
Arnhem Ring. Indy collected the Arnhem calendar ring for the
museum in "Blood
and Sand".
As Indy dismisses the class on page 2, he reminds the
students about their reports about the Dunhuang excavations
on Friday. The topic probably refers to the excavations of
the Library Cave of the Mogao Caves in the area near
Dunhuang, China, consisting of thousands of Buddhist manuscripts and
other religious artifacts in the early 1900s.
Page 3 describes the National Museum as adjoining Marshall
College.
Indy rants at Marion's leaflet stunt, telling her it's
turning the museum into a circus and she retorts, "Well when
was the last time you saw P.T. Barnum standin' in a
breadline, buster?" P.T. Barnum (1810-1891) was an American
businessman, showman, and co-founder of the
Ringling
Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
On page 5, Indy grumpily breaks off from Marion, saying he
has to go pack for a plane ride to Alaska. This refers to
the trip he'll take in the following issue
("The Sea Butchers").
This issue reveals that the curator of the National Museum
before Marcus Brody was Milos Fortier. Brody took the
position after Fortier killed himself due to the effects of
a demonic skeleton he came into position of.
On page 13, Pondexter pulls up to the closed-for-the-season
Sea Vista Hotel, somewhere on the east coast not far from
Bedford. This appears to be a fictitious hostel.
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