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Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Published: February 24, 2010
344 pages
The globetrotting hero born of George Lucas's love for high-adventure 1930s fiction returns! Irreverent archaeologist Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones scours the furthest corners of the planet for priceless artifacts, hungry for knowledge about ancient civilizations and in a constant race to beat grave-robbing thieves to the goods. Though his quick wit, resourcefulness, and dashing good looks have gotten him this far, what happens when his Nazi foes attempt to wake the dead through sorcery? Join Steve Ditko and Linda Grant in this value-priced collection to find out! |
Good as Gold
Published: January 1985
Writer: Linda Grant
Pencils: Steve Ditko
Indy goes to the Peruvian Andes to meet
Jessie Hale, who has uncovered a stone slab
that reveals the location of the El Dorado
treasure. Ivar Reiss, the rebellious son
of wealthy industrialist Edgard Reiss, forces Indy and Jessie to lead him to the El Dorado. It turns out to be an Inca trap, and Reiss
and his men are buried under a mountain
of rubble.
Trail of the Golden Guns - part 1
Published: February 1985
Writer: David Michelinie
Pencils: Steve Ditko
Indy finds what might be an Atlantic relic
in the Caribbean, and Short Round, who has
been in a boarding school, helps him escape
with it from a Latin American military patrol
boat. The relic turns out to be merely a
"Buffalo Bill" Cody) asks for Indy's assistance in recovering a pair of antique revolvers—stolen days earlier by an unscrupulous Russian count, Alexander Salkovich.
Trail of the Golden Guns - part 2
Published: March 1985
Writer: David Michelinie
Pencils: Steve Ditko
With the encouragement of Efram Decker from the State Department, Indy and Cody travel to the Ukraine to hunt down Salkovich and the guns. They are met by a band of Cossacks, whose aging leader Uri Rostoff claims to have lost the revolvers to Buffalo Bill in a sharpshooting contest decades earlier. Rostoff offers to help recover the guns, as long as Cody agrees to stand in for her grandfather in a rematch.
Tower of Tears!
Published: April 1985
Writer: Linda Grant
Pencils: Steve Ditko
Alec Sutherland, a student of the late Dr.
Arthur Hecht (of whom Indiana Jones is also
a former student), asks Indy to help carry
on Hecht's work. He was investigating the
Tower of Tears in Iran, one of the seven
fabled towers scattered across the earth
harboring sorcerers who seek to chant the
world to destruction. Indy and Alec find
the tower, but the sorcerer who lives there
claims to be the only one, and he dies in
an explosion.
Shot by Both Sides!
Published: May 1985
Writer: Linda Grant
Pencils: Ricardo Villamonte
Indy goes to San Francisco to pick up Chinese
mummy for the National Museum. He is attacked by Chinese gangsters who want to preserve
the remains of their ancestor. Indy is rescued by Jessie Hale, whose brother, Peter, brought the mummy over from China. The Irish Republican Army is after the crate, which is supposed
to contain guns for them in place of the
mummy. In fact, the crate contains the body
of Patrick McManus, the IRA's agent in China. Michael Cobb of the IRA decides to take
Indy to China to help hunt down Weng Ho,
the Chinaman who double crossed them.
Fireworks!
Published: July 1985
Writer: Linda Grant
Pencils: Ricardo Villamonte
Indy and Cobb travel up the Hwang River, and are intercepted by armed guards near arms dealer Weng Ho's headquarters. Once captured, the pair are confronted by Ho himself, who reveals plans to overthrow the Chinese government. An explosion (from a bomb planted earlier by Cobb) frightens away Ho's men, and Ho retreats to a maze of subterranean caverns. Jones and Cobb follow and find Ho cowering near the ornate coffins of his ancestors. Shots are fired, leaving Ho dead and Cobb mortally wounded. Before he expires, Cobb makes Indy promise to get Ho's guns to the IRA. Indy has second thoughts, however, and ends up destroying all the weapons before arranging for the priceless coffins' transportation back to the States.
Big Game
Published: September 1985
Writer: Linda Grant
Pencils: Ricardo Villamonte
Returning from China, Indy stops in the
state of Washington, where he meets big
game hunter "Congo" Kate Crawford, who is hunting for Bigfoot. Her Indian guide, Robert Thundercloud, is accused by Sheriff
Hyatt of murdering a bartender in town.
It turns out that Hyatt is a spy for the
Japanese and Thundercloud is a FBI agent.
Double Play!
Published: November 1985
Writer: Linda Grant
Pencils: Steve Ditko
A young woman, posing as Miss Victoria Keith
of the British Museum, uses Indy to gain
access to the National Museum where she
steals an amulet related to Dr. Hecht's
seven sorcerers. She escapes by plane with
the amulet and is later identified as a
thief for hire named Amanda Knight. Indy follows Amanda Knight to England and Scotland Yard directs him to the Orkney Islands north of Scotland.
Magic, Murder, and the Weather!
Published: January 1986
Writer: Linda Grant
Pencils: Steve Ditko
Indy follows Amanda Knight to England and
Scotland Yard directs him to the Orkney
Islands north of Scotland. There Indy finds
Amanda and also discovers that the local
lighthouse keeper, Ian Soames, is one of
the seven sorcerers, and has the amulet
Amanda had stolen for him. In a showdown between Ian Soames and Indiana
Jones, Soame's lighthouse is destroyed and
Soames is lost. Indy recovers the amulet
and returns to Connecticut.
Something's Gone Wrong Again!
Published: March 1986
Writer: Linda Grant
Pencils: Steve Ditko
Indy follows Amanda Knight to England and Scotland Yard directs him to the Orkney Islands north of Scotland. There Indy finds Amanda and also discovers that the local lighthouse keeper, Ian Soames, is one of the seven sorcerers, and has the amulet Amanda had stolen for him. In a showdown between Ian Soames and Indiana
Jones, Soame's lighthouse is destroyed and
Soames is lost. Indy recovers the amulet
and returns to Connecticut.
Last Crusade #1
Published: October 1989
Collected: September 1989
Writer: David Michelinie
Pencils: Bret Blevins
1938. Indiana Jones completes his lifelong request to recover the Cross of Coronado from a ruthless collector, resulting in his enemy's death at sea. Stateside, he is approached by a wealthy antique dealer and businessman named Walter Donovan who claims to have clues to the final resting place of the Holy Grail, the sacred cup said to bring eternal life to whoever drinks from it. Jones is not interested...until Donovan reveals that his father, Henry Jones, was originally his project leader and has gone missing in Venice.
Last Crusade #2
Published: October 1989
Collected: September 1989
Writer: David Michelinie
Pencils: Bret Blevins
Accompanied by Marcus Brody, Indy travels to Venice where he meets the enchanting Dr. Elsa Schneider, and they are attacked by members of the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword. Eventually, a tipoff leads Indy to a gloomy castle on the Austrian-German border, where he is reunited with his father...and discovers, to his horror, that his old enemies the Nazis are involved.
Last Crusade #3
Published: November 1989
Collected: September 1989
Writer: David Michelinie
Pencils: Bret Blevins
Both Donovan and Elsa are cooperating with the Nazis, because the want the Grail for themselves. Using Henry's diary he and the Nazis plan to seek the Grail in the Canyon of the Crescent Moon in Hatay. Jones and his father escape from the sadistic Colonel Vogel, and find themselves in a race to both avoid being killed by the Nazis, but also to beat them, Donovan and Elsa to Hatay, lest the Grail fall into their hands.
Last Crusade #4
Published: November 1989
Collected: September 1989
Writer: David Michelinie
Pencils: Bret Blevins
Both Donovan and Elsa are cooperating with the Nazis, because the want the Grail for themselves. Using Henry's diary he and the Nazis plan to seek the Grail in the Canyon of the Crescent Moon in Hatay. Jones and his father escape from the sadistic Colonel Vogel, and find themselves in a race to both avoid being killed by the Nazis, but also to beat them, Donovan and Elsa to Hatay, lest the Grail fall into their hands.
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