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Indiana Jones: Demons 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


An accountant at the National Museum finds an old trunk full of bones and relics hidden in a wall of the building.

 

Read the 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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