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Indiana Jones
"Something's Gone Wrong Again"
The Further Adventures of
Indiana Jones
#34
Marvel Comics
Scripter: Linda Grant
Penciler: Steve Ditko
Inker: Danny Bulanadi
Letterer: Diana Albers
Colorist: Ken Feduniewicz
Cover: Keith Pollard
March 1986
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The sorcerer makes his move to take control
of the world with only Indy and Crazy Angus standing in his way.
Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology
This issue takes place in 1937.
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
Ian Soames (dies in this issue)
Indiana Jones
Amanda Knight
skeletons
townspeople
seven sorcerers (mentioned only)
Crazy Angus
Angus' father
(mentioned only)
Angus' grandfather (mentioned only)
Sinclair
Magnus Redhand (mentioned only, deceased)
Douglas
(mentioned only, deceased)
Didja Notice?
Page 2 features a flashback in Indy's thoughts, recounting
events in the first two chapters of this story,
"Double Play" and
"Magic, Murder
and the Weather".
The legendary 10th Century Viking pirate
Magnus Redhand who left his treasure on Estray Island
appears to be fictitious.
Sinclair accuses Indy of having felled Douglas with an evil
eye. This occurred in
"Magic, Murder
and the Weather". The evil eye is the belief that a
person can be killed or brought to misfortune via the
malevolent glare of another person.
On page 14, Indy remarks on the last time he destroyed one
of the seven sorcerers. This was in
"Tower of Tears".
Amanda tries to convince Indy to fly off of Estray Island
with her now instead of trying to destroy Soames' tower, and
she'll have him in Edinburgh "in no time".
Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland.
After falling from the crumbling lighthouse tower when it
gets struck by mystic lightning on page 22, Indy remarks,
"Now I know how King Kong felt after the airplanes got him."
King Kong is a gigantic ape who appears in the classic 1933
film of the same name; the ape climbed the Empire State
Building in New York City and was shot down by biplane
fighters, plummeting the beast to the street below at the end of the film.
At the end of the story, Indy
walks away wondering if Soames survived the lighthouse
disaster, seeing nothing but the hundreds of fallen
skeletons littering the ground at the base of the tower and
figuring he'll never know. But, we the readers see that the
skeleton in the foreground of the final panel is wearing the
cloak and tunic of Soames.
Unanswered Questions
It is not clear whether Crazy Angus is killed in his
confrontation with Soames or not. Soames later appears
carrying Angus' large dowsing rod, but the old man's fate is
not revealed.
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