Gale Parker, born Mirna Abi Khalil, was a friend and associate of Indiana Jones.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Mirna Abi Khalil was born in 1899[1] to a Bedouin ruler[2]—a Muslim man with a Mediterranean background—and mother Sybil Saunders, a British witch. Growing up with her mother in New Forest, England, she became versed in her parent's Wiccan heritage.[1] She was raised there except for four years spent in Germany with her cousins. She experienced hard schooling, flying gliders, learning different languages and returned home when she was eighteen.[2] Learning from others with similar backgrounds, she earned a doctorate in ancient cultures at age 24.[1]
By the mid to late 1920s,[3] Mirna Abi had adopted the name Gale Parker to disguise her father's ethnicity, feeling that it revealed far too much information about her.[2]
Adventures with Indiana Jones[]
Gale Parker first encountered Indiana Jones studying ruins on one of her trips into the New Forest and discovered the archaeologist shared as much knowledge as she on Celtic cultures.[1]
Initially, she was repulsed to learn he was a professor, believing them impractical in the field and preferring a classroom to the outdoors. The pair formed a fast friendship, however, when they were attacked by a large wild boar and Parker was surprised when the man produced a bullwhip to take down the animal. They set up a camp to see the night through and over the fire the academics bonded.[1]
Parker kept in touch with Jones over subsequent years, even assisting with his teaching at the London University on occasion. In 1930, she was contacted by Jones to help him with a secret project- and joined his group assigned to investigate a series of events involving unidentified flying objects that had been spotted in the skies attacking a variety of vehicles.[1]
Appearances[]
- Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates (First appearance)
- Indiana Jones and the White Witch
Sources[]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Indiana Jones and the White Witch
- ↑ Gale Parker first met Indiana Jones as a professor. With Jones' professorship beginning in 1925 and Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates set in 1930, establishing their yearslong friendship, their initial encounter with each other has to take place in the latter half of the 1920s.