Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures was a 2008 magazine published biweekly with limited distribution in the United Kingdom where it's common practice to gauge reader interest by trialing the release in a particular area first before relaunching the full series nationwide. The magazine had a planned run of fifty-two issues but only ran for six.
The magazine featured jokes, games and puzzles along with exclusive comic strips based around the collectable "treasure" offered with the issue that could be displayed in a two-tray storage crate supplied with the second installment.
Subscribers were also offered a magazine holder, board game, 3D poster featuring Indiana Jones and Mutt Williams, plus a set of the first three special edition movies on DVD.
Issues[]
- Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures 1 - Included treasure is Tutankhamun's Death Mask.
- Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures 2 - Included treasure is the Supernatural Crystal Skull.
- Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures 3 - Included treasure is a Roman Gladiator's Dagger.
- Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures 4 - Included treasure is the Ark of the Covenant.
- Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures 5 - Included treasure is an Anglo-Saxon Warrior Battle Helmet.
- Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures 6 - Included treasure is a trio of Ancient Olympic Coins.
- Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures 7 (Cancelled) - Included treasure was teased as the Bogus Holy Grail[1]
- Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures 8 (Cancelled) - Included treasure was teased as an Aztec Mosaic Mask[2]
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Behind the scenes[]
Since watching Raiders of the Lost Ark, John Royle was an avid Indiana Jones fan before being hired to write the Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures strip. While Lucasfilm Ltd. had the final say over his art, all Royle was requested to do in preparation was knowing general information of Egypt, such as their treasures and pygmies. Royle received full scripts for the strip but he was allowed to choose the sizes of the panels, the lightning and the angles. No restraints were ever put for the strip other than Royle being forced to redraw Marcus Brody a couple of times to resemble the late Denholm Elliott and scrapping the originally planned fourth issue's story with that didn't feature ancient knives due to a real-life incident involving those utensils and kids that were on the news when the strip was in development. While the strip ended with the sixth issue, Royle admitted in 2014 that there were plans for more had the strip's sales been better.[3]
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External links[]
- Official website (Defunct)
- November 2010 news archive at throwmetheidol.com