{"id":34461,"date":"2025-12-10T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=34461"},"modified":"2025-12-09T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:09:00","slug":"indiana-jones-the-further-adventures-omnibus-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2025\/12\/10\/indiana-jones-the-further-adventures-omnibus-volume-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Jones: The Further Adventures Omnibus volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Walt Simonson<\/strong>, Denny O\u2019Neil<\/strong>, David Michelinie<\/strong>, Howard Chaykin<\/strong>, Archie Goodwin<\/strong>, John Buscema<\/strong>, John Byrne<\/strong>, Gene Day<\/strong>, Richard Howell<\/strong>, Ron Frenz<\/strong>, Kerry Gammill<\/strong>, Dan Reed<\/strong>, Luke McDonnell<\/strong>, Terry Austin<\/strong>, Mel Candido<\/strong>, Danny Bulanadi<\/strong>, Sam de La Rosa<\/strong>, & various (Dark Horse\/Titan Books)
\nISBN: 978-1-59582-246-8 (Dark Horse TPB) 978-1-84576-808-9 (Titan TPB)<\/p>\n

This book includes Discriminatory Content<\/strong> produced in less enlightened times. This book also includes Discriminatory Content<\/strong> included for dramatic and literary effect. <\/em><\/p>\n

Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: What Blockbuster Really Means… 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Next June sees the 45th<\/sup> anniversary of the release of Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/strong>. Who knows if we\u2019ll still be here then, so in lieu of biblical smiting or the end coming courtesy of the babies, nitwits and monsters giving all the orders right now, here\u2019s a rowdy recollection that\u2019s fun to read and where Nazis at least have the chutzpah to admit it…<\/em><\/p>\n

Although dormant for the moment, Dark Horse Comics have held the comics-producing franchise for Indiana Jones <\/strong>since 1993: generating thousands of pages of material, much of it excellent and some not quite. It might be construed as heretical to say it, but dedicated film fans aren\u2019t all that quality conscious when it comes to their particular fascination, whether it\u2019s games about finding Atlantis or the latest watered-down kids\u2019 interpretation or whatever.<\/p>\n

The Dark Horse Omnibus line was a wonderfully economical way to keep older material in print for such fans by bundling old publications into classy, full-colour digests. They were slightly smaller than US comic-books but larger than a standard tank?bon manga book, running about 400 pages per tome, but not all of them were available in digital editions. The entire format carried over when Marvel reacquired the Star Wars<\/strong> franchise and has been used since for their Alien<\/strong> and Predator<\/strong> lines.<\/p>\n

This initial Indy volume (of three) chronologically re-presents the first dozen Marvel Comics (the original license holder) interpretations which followed the film Raiders of the Lost Ark <\/strong>as well as including the 3-issue miniseries adaptation by Walt Simonson, John Buscema & Klaus Janson that preceded that celluloid landmark. I\u2019m being this specific because the comic version was also released as a single glossy, enhanced-colour magazine in the Marvel Super Special<\/strong> series (#18: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark <\/strong>if you\u2019re curious).<\/p>\n

So – just in case you\u2019re the one who hasn\u2019t seen the film<\/em>… Set in the days before World War II, Hitler\u2019s paranormal investigation division gathers occult artifacts from around the planet and soon crosses swords with a rough & ready unconventional archaeology professor from a New York university. Soon the far-from-esteemed Doctor Indiana Jones<\/em> is scammed by the US government into tracking down his old tutor: a savant who might have knowledge of the biblical and mystically potent Ark of the Covenant\u2026<\/p>\n

Although Abner Ravenwood<\/em> has since died, his daughter Marion<\/em> possesses clues Jones needs. Unfortunately, she\u2019s also an old flame he abandoned and would rather burn in hell than help him. However, when Nazis turn up and try to torch her in the Nepalese bar she washed up in, Marion joins Jones in a breakneck chase across the world from Cairo to the lost city of Tanis to a secret Nazi submarine base on a tropical island, fighting natives and Nazis every step of the way until the ancient artifact separates the just from the wicked in a spectacular and terrifying display of Old Testament style Wrath…<\/p>\n

The movie\u2019s format – baffling but breakneck search for a legendary object, chased or anticipated by utterly irredeemable antagonists, exotic locales, non-stop action, outrageous fights and just a hint of eldritch overtones – became staples for the comic book series that followed. It opened in impressive manner with \u2018The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones\u2019<\/em>: a 2-part yarn from Jack-of-all-genres John Byrne, assisted by Terry Austin, with veteran scripter Denny O\u2019Neil pitching in for the concluding \u201822-Karat Doom!\u2019<\/em>
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\nWhen an old student is murdered before his eyes, Indy swears to complete the lad\u2019s research, subsequently trekking through Africa in search of a mythical tribe who turn men to gold. He is never more than one step ahead of a maniac millionaire with no love of mysteries or antiquities, but possessed by a deep and abiding love of profit…<\/p>\n

That adventure ends with our hero plunging out of a doomed plane and into issue #3\u2019s US-set adventure \u2018The Devil\u2019s Cradle\u2019<\/em> (by O\u2019Neil, Gene Day, Richard Howell, Mel Candido & Danny Bulanadi) wherein Indy lands in a hillbilly wilderness where a rogue US Army Colonel and band of witch-burning yokels are separately hunting a 400-year-old alchemist with all the secrets of the ages at his fingertips…<\/p>\n

David Michelinie, Ron Frenz & Bulanadi\u2019s \u2018Gateway to Infinity!\u2019<\/em> sees our archaeological adventurer en route<\/em> to Stonehenge, courtesy of the US government, as a ring of Nazi spies again fail to kill him. Hitler\u2019s spies and parapsychologists are still hunting preternatural artifacts and the crystal cylinder uncovered at the ancient monument definitely qualifies. English professor (of antiquities not ENGLISH English) Karen Mays<\/em> dates it to the Triassic period, millions of years before Man evolved, so the murderous Aryans will stop at nothing to make it theirs…<\/p>\n

Luckily for Jones and Mays – but not the Reich – the spies eventually succeed. However, to their eternal regret their vile machinations unleash \u2018The Harbingers\u2019<\/em>, and only Indy\u2019s swift reactions prevent a horror beyond time escaping into our world…<\/p>\n

Jazz Age mastermind Howard Chaykin joins Austin to illustrate wonderfully classy \u2018Club Nightmare\u2019<\/em> (plotted by Archie Goodwin & scripted by Michelinie) wherein Marion opens a swanky Manhattan nightspot, only to run afoul of mobsters – and worse – before it even opens. With Indy on hand to save the day though, the situation swiftly goes from tricky to calamitous to disastrous…<\/p>\n

Michelinie, Kerry Gammill & Sam de La Rosa soon have our hero globetrotting again in \u2018Africa Screams\u2019<\/em> as a tussle in Tuscany with tomb-robber Ian McIver<\/em> provides a solid clue to an even deeper mystery. Following an old map, Indy & Marion are soon on their way to the Dark Continent in search of the legendary Shintay<\/em>; a tribe of pale giants, outcast from and last survivors of fabled Atlantis. Unfortunately, McIver and those ever-eager Nazi scavengers are also on the trail and in \u2018Crystal Death\u2019<\/em> the Shintay\u2019s vast power almost eradicates half of Africa…<\/p>\n

Issues #9 & 10 find our tomb hunter target of a sinister plot by German spies and Aztec wannabees in \u2018The Gold Goddess: Xomec\u2019s Raiders\u2019<\/em> (Goodwin, Michelinie, Dan Reed & Bulanadi), prompting death-defying battles in the lofty heights of the Big Apple and depths of the Brazilian jungle…
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\nWe conclude in epic style with a breathtaking global duel and brand-new villain as Indy is seduced by nefarious antiquities collector Ben Ali Ayoob<\/em> into investigating persistent Biblical myth \u2018The Fourth Nail\u2019<\/em>. In \u2018Blood and Sand\u2019<\/em> Jones travels from Australian Outback to Barcelona trying to find the unused final spike that should have ended Christ\u2019s suffering on the Cross, but his quest is dogged by bad luck, Arabian ninjas, guardian \u201cgypsies\u201d, immense insane bandits and irascible bulls looking for a handy matador to mangle…<\/p>\n

The perilous pilgrimage reaches an inevitable conclusion in \u2018Swords and Spikes\u2019<\/em> (with additional art from Luke McDonnell & Mel Candido), a cavalcade of carnage, breakneck action and supernatural retribution…<\/p>\n

With a covers gallery from such ably diverse hands as James T. Sherman, Walt Simonson, Terry Austin, Byrne, Howell & Armando Gil, Frenz, Mike Gustovich, Chaykin, Gammill, Bob Wiacek & Bob McLeod, this is a splendid slice of simple escapist fun: buried treasures any fan of any age would be delighted to unearth and rejoice over.
\n\u2122 & \u00a9 1981, 1983, 2009 Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

Today in 1920 comic book legend Dan Spiegle<\/strong> was born. Where are those Lost in Space<\/strong>, Crossfire<\/strong> or Blackhawk<\/strong> archive editions!?<\/p>\n

In 1921 equally legendary artist Matt Baker<\/strong> was born. Go look him up too like we did in Invisible Men – The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books<\/a><\/strong>. You could even try and find Teen Angst: A Treasury of \u201950\u2019s Romance<\/a><\/strong>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Walt Simonson, Denny O\u2019Neil, David Michelinie, Howard Chaykin, Archie Goodwin, John Buscema, John Byrne, Gene Day, Richard Howell, Ron Frenz, Kerry Gammill, Dan Reed, Luke McDonnell, Terry Austin, Mel Candido, Danny Bulanadi, Sam de La Rosa, & various (Dark Horse\/Titan Books) ISBN: 978-1-59582-246-8 (Dark Horse TPB) 978-1-84576-808-9 (Titan TPB) This book includes Discriminatory Content … <\/p>\n

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