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Indiana Jones Omnibus:
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Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Published: January 21, 2009
368 pages
Join comics luminaries Walt Simonson, John Byrne, Archie Goodwin, and Howard Chaykin, among others, in the very first appearances of the esteemed professor on the comic-book page! This tome collects the first twelve issues of the 1980s ongoing series - along with the adaptation of Raiders of the Lost Ark - for the very first time. And David Michelinie, the writer who would go on to pen most of Indy's four-color adventures, begins his imaginative run here! Fans of the films won't want to miss these classic tales that extend the Indiana Jones mythos beyond the silver screen. |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark #1
Published: September 1981
Collected: 1981 (issues 1-3)
Writer: Walter Simonson
Pencils: John Buscema
In 1936, Indiana Jones recovers a lost golden idol in the jungles of Peru, but is betrayed by his guides and eventually loses the idol to his longtime rival, Belloq. No sooner has he returned Stateside than he is approached by members of Army Intelligence, who reveal evidence suggesting the Nazis have discovered the lost city of Tanis and are near to discovering the Ark of the Covenant. |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark #2
Published: October 1981
Writer: Walter Simonson
Pencils: John Buscema
After hearing of how powerful the Ark is, Intelligence requests Jones go after it, but first he needs a vital piece to find the Ark's resting place, which he believes is in the possession of Abner Ravenwood in Nepal. Ravenwood is dead however, but his daughter, Marion, possess the piece. But the Nazis are after it as well. And worse, Belloq is helping them! Jones must keep the Ark out of the hands of evil....but first he has to find it. |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark #3
Published: November 1981
Writer: Walter Simonson
Pencils: John Buscema
Indy uses his whip to lash himself to the submarine's periscope for the journey to the Nazi island. He also loses his hat in the water. At the Nazi island, Indy confronts Belloq and threatens to destroy the Ark after Belloq has changed into his ceremonial robes. Rather than surrender, he is attacked and subdued by the Nazi officer Captain Mohler. Dietrich prepares to execute Jones, but Belloq persuades the Colonel to tie Indy up instead, and to kill him after the Ark has been opened. |
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The Ikons of Ikammanen
Published: January 1983
Writer: John Byrne
Pencils: John Byrne
Italian cover (issues 1, 2, & 6)
Charlie Dunne, a former student who claims
to have found the Ikons of Ikammanen, is
killed. Indy goes to Krikambo, a northeast
African coastal town, to meet Charlie's
sister Edith. She is kidnapped by Solomon
Black and Indy and Edith are forced to find
the Ikons for him. |
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22-Karat Doom!
Published: February 1983
Writer: Missouri O'Neill
Pencils: John Byrne
When Nazis torpedo Black's
ship, Indy and Edith escape with an Ikon.
Indy reveals that Edith killed her brother
to get all the credit for the find, so he
leaves her to the vengeance of the Ikon. |
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The Devil's Cradle
Published: March 1983
Writer: Denny O'Neill
Pencils: Gene Day, Richard Howell
Indy meets a four-hundred-year-old man named
Prospero and his two-hundred-year old grandson.
They are chased by suspicious local yokels
and are trying to prevent the army from
burying a special spring Prospero needs
to concoct his elixir of immortality. In
the end, the spring is buried, and Indy
and Prospero go their separate ways. |
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Gateway to Infinity!
Published: March 1983
Writer: David Michelinie
Pencils: Ron Frenz
Indy joins the gateway project
in England, investigating a crystal cylinder
discovered within a Stonehenge monolith.
Indy works with an English woman, Professor
Karen Mays, but the Nazis are also after
the secret of the discovery. |
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The Harbingers
Published: April 1983
Writer: David Michelinie
Pencils: Ron Frenz
Italian cover (issues 4, 5, & 24)
Indy and Karen
discover that the cylinder is the key to
a dimensional gateway. The Nazis steal the
cylinder and try to summon the beings from
that dimension, but Indy and Karen stop
them by destroying the cylinder. |
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Club Nightmare!
Published: June 1983
Writer: David Michelinie
Pencils: Howard Chaykin
Marion Ravenwood opens the Raven's Nest,
a Manhattan nightclub, with Indiana Jones
as a silent partner. The opening night festivities,
featuring guest singer Frank Sinatra, are
interrupted. Indy and Marion suspect gangster
Emil Marko, but later catch their interior
decorator, Jamal, sabotaging the club and
discover that he had been using it as a
cover for smuggling artifacts. |
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Africa Screams!
Published: June 1983
Writer: David Michelinie
Pencils: Kerry Gammill
Indy recovers a Piute summoning stone stolen
from the National Museum by a ring of international
artifact thieves, led by Ian McIver, with
whom Indy had previously tangled over some
tablets in Bangkok. In retrieving the stone,
Indy also gets a map dealing with the movements
of a clan of people called the Shintay,
who supposedly split off from Atlantis. |
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Africa Screams: Crystal Death
Published: July 1983
Writer: David Michelinie
Pencils: Kerry Gammill
Italian cover (issues 7, 8, & 13)
Indy and Marion travel to Cameroon in West
Africa and head into the Congo. They meet
a group of Nazis led by Colonel Vogel and
Ian McIver, but all are captured by the
Shintay, who explain that they were banished
from Atlantis because they worship death
while the Atlanteans revered life. Vogel
tries to take a crystal power orb and destroys
the entire Shintay citadel leaving only
Indy, Marion, and McIver as survivors. |
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The Gold Goddess: Xomec's Riders
Published: September 1983
Writer: Archie Goodwin, David Michelinie
Pencils: Dan Reed
Sallah helps Indy recover the gold Chachapoyan
idol that was stolen from him in Peru by
Rene Belloq. He delivers it to Marcus Brody
and the National Museum, but it is stolen
again by Xomez, a descendant of Chachapoyan
warriors. |
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The Gold Goddess: Amazon Death-Ride!
Published: October 1983
Writer: Archie Goodwin, David Michelinie
Pencils: Dan Reed
Italian cover (issues 9, 10, & 14)
Indy goes to Manaus, Brazil, to
recover the gold Chachapoyan
idol. There he meets Ilsa Toht, sister
of Ernst Toht, who tries to kill Indy. Indy
recovers the idol, but Ilsa is lost at sea. |
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The Fourth Nail: Blood and Sand!
Published: November 1983
Writer: David Michelinie
Pencils: Kerry Gammill
In Australia, Indy finds a calendar ring,
a relic from the Arnhelm cult that once
lived near Sydney. While there he meets
Ben Ali Ayoob, a relic collector with many
homes around the world that house his collections.
Ayoob tries to hire Indy to find for him
the fourth nail of the crucifixion, supposedly
stolen from Golgotha by a gypsy, prompting
the gypsies to believe that God forgives
them for petty crimes. Indy declines Ayoob's
offer, but decides to go after the nail
himself for the National Museum. |
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The Fourth Nail: Swords and Spikes!
Published: December 1983
Writer: David Michelinie
Pencils: Luke McDonnell
Italian cover (issues 11, 12, & 25)
Indy goes
to Barcelona, followed by Ayoob's Ismalis
(Arabian Ninja), finds Torino, and meets
Marion, the National Museum's new public
relations officer. After fights in a cathedral
and a bullring stockpen, Indy is shown the
fourth nail. Ayoob's Ismalis try to steal
it and are instantly killed, so Indy decides
to return home empty handed. |
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