"Deadly Rock!" is issue 13 of Marvel Comics' The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones comic book series published in October 1983. In addition to the main, single-issue story, the book also contains the one-page back-up strip Massachusetts Brown: Raiders of the Late Book.
Archie Goodwin is given a hat-tip in the credits for his contribution towards David Michelinie's plot.
In 2009, "Deadly Rock!" was collected in Omnibus: The Further Adventures Volume 2 by Dark Horse Comics.
Plot summary[]
In 1936, Professor Jones took his advanced archaeology students on an expedition of caves once inhabited by Hopi Indians in Arizona. After saving Lucy Giles from a scorpion, Jones rescued the curious Warren from a rock slide. A pair of armed men claiming to be from the Bureau of Indian Affairs warned the class to stay away from the caves. Suspicious, Jones sneaked off after dusk to investigate, and found that the maze of caverns is being converted into a sophisticated criminal hideout by a unscrupulous entrepreneur named Busby. To ensure the professor's silence, Busby kidnapped one of his students, Lucy Giles. Pretending to break camp and leave with the rest of his students, Jones mounted a rescue, only to discover that Lucy was Busby's daughter. Jones fought his way through Busby's men, and foiled Busby's attempt to flee by plane. Previously called by Jones, the state police arrived to arrest father, daughter and the rest of the gang.
Appearances[]
Characters[]
- Marcus Brody
- Clair
- Dominic
- Eva
- Busby Giles
- Busby Giles' mother (Mentioned only)
- Lucy Giles
- Joel
- John Law (Mentioned only)
- Indiana Jones
- Mel
- Oinkster
- Oscar
- Warren
- Marion Ravenwood
- Butch Cassidy (Mentioned only)
- Sundance Kid (Mentioned only)
Locations[]
- Arizona, USA
- Marshall College, Connecticut (Mentioned only)
- National Museum (Mentioned only)
- Hole-in-the-Wall (Mentioned only)
- Vassar College (Mentioned only)
Miscellanea[]
- Archaeology 223
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Dynamite (Mentioned only)
- Fedora
- Hopi
- Indy's pistol
- Bullwhip
- Maggot (Mentioned only)
- Scorpion
- Tarantula
Behind the scenes[]
David Michelinie recalled that Archie Goodwin had a couple of ideas of springboards and concepts for a planned Indiana Jones newspaper comic strip that didn't materialize.[1] Upon learning of Michelinie's position on The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones after the departure of John Byrne and Denny O'Neil from the Indiana Jones comic book series, despite his new status as senior editor of Epic Comics, Goodwin supplied Michelinie in his characteristic generosity with at least a half-dozen paragraphs of the story ideas they had considered for the aborted strip, one being the story for "Deadly Rock!", hence why Michelinie offered Goodwin "a tip to the hat" in the credits of the seventeen issue.[2]
Collections[]
Notes and references[]
External links[]
"Deadly Rock!" on Marvel Database, the Marvel Comics wiki
