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Indiana Jones
"Magic, Murder, and the Weather"
The Further Adventures of
Indiana Jones
#33
Marvel Comics
Script: Linda Grant
Pencils: Steve Ditko
Inks: Danny Bulanadi
Letters: Diana Albers
Colors: Ken Feduniewicz
Cover: Keith Pollard
January 1986
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Indy tracks Amanda and the amulet to the
Orkney Islands and finds even more trouble than he bargained
for.
Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology
This issue takes place immediately after the events of
"Double Play".
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
customs clerk
Indiana Jones
Percy
Clyde
Amanda Knight
Ian Soames
boat captain
Duncan (bartender)
pub patrons
Rene Belloq (mentioned only, deceased)
Crazy Angus
townsfolk
Douglas (dies in this issue)
Sinclair
Geoffrey
skeletons
Didja Notice?
Two men from Scotland Yard hound Indy when he arrives in
England at the airport and point him towards ruins in the
Orkney Islands. Scotland Yard is the name for the
headquarters building of the Metropolitan Police of London.
The
Orkney Islands are part of Scotland and lie off the
north coast of that country.
On page 3, Amanda is on what is described as a sparsely
populated island of the Orkneys in a circle of ancient
standing stones the locals call the Ring. This particular
ring of stones may be fictitious, though a number of such
circles exist in the islands. (One such circle is called the
Ring of Brodgar, but it stands on the most populous of the
islands, Mainland.)
When Indy arrives by ferry at the same island days later,
now identified as Estray Island, the boat captain points him
to the Swanson Boarding House as a place to stay. Estray is
a fictitious island (called Estry in the concluding chapter
"Something's Gone Wrong Again"), probably based on the real
world Westray Island (also called Papa Westray).
On page 4, Indy walks away from the boat with a bag of
luggage, but walks into the boarding house without it!
Crazy Angus' description of ley lines on pages 10-11 is
roughly accurate.
Ley lines are alleged spiritual, mystical, or magnetic
alignments of historic structures on Earth. The concept of
ley lines is usually considered pseudoscience by the
established sciences, but there is some (controversial)
evidence of magnetic fields existing along mapped ley lines
across the world.
On page 22, Soames excoriates
Indy for killing his "spiritual brother" in Iran. This
happened in "Tower of Tears".
The Eye of Shamash amulet that holds power over the seven
sorcerers is a fictitious relic.
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