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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull                        Trade Paperback
Based on the story by: George Lucas & Jeff Nathanson
And the screenplay by: David Koepp
Writer: John Jackson Miller
Artists: Luke Ross & Cliff Richards
Inkers: Fabio Laguna & Eber Ferreira
Colorists: Dan Jackson & Pamela Rambo
Letterer: Michael Heisler
Editors: Jeremy Barlow, Freddye Lins & Dave Marshall
Cover by: Drew Struzan

The man who single-handedly defined ‘adventure’ for an entire generation returns-hat and all-in this action-packed adaptation of this summer’s silver-screen megahit! Dr. Henry Jones Jr. is at it again, this time on the trail of a discovery unlike any in his illustrious career. Yet more than one player is out to win this game, and with stakes this high, not everyone is going to play fair! Will Indiana Jones’s greatest adventure be his last? The biggest movie event of 2008 comes to comics!

Story/Spoilers
In 1957 during the Cold War, World War II veteran Indiana Jones and his partner George “Mac” McHale are kidnapped by Soviet agents under Colonel Dr. Irina Spalko. The Soviets infiltrate a warehouse labeled “Warehouse 51” in Nevada and force Jones to locate a non-human corpse including a crystal skull, recovered ten years earlier. Upon its discovery, Mac reveals he is a double agent working for the Soviets, and Jones escapes on a rocket sled. Jones, still pursued, arrives in a model town at the Nevada Test Site, minutes before an atomic bomb test, and takes shelter in a lead-lined refrigerator. Jones is arrested by FBI agents, who suspect him of working for the Soviets; and though freed, is put on indefinite leave of absence from Marshall College. Jones is approached by greaser Henry “Mutt” Williams, who tells him that Harold Oxley had found a crystal skull in Peru, suffered a mental breakdown, and was later kidnapped. In return, Jones tells Mutt about the legend of crystal skulls found in Akator. Mutt gives Jones a letter from his mother, who is also held captive, containing a riddle written by Oxley in an ancient Native American language. KGB agents try to take the letter, but Jones and Mutt evade them and reach Peru. At the local psychiatric hospital, Oxley’s scribbles on the walls of his cell lead them to the grave of Francisco de Orellana, a Conquistador searching for Akator. They discover the skull at the grave, with Jones reasoning that Oxley had hidden it there. Shortly afterward, Jones and Mutt are captured by the Soviets and taken to their camp, where they find Oxley and Mutt’s mother, …Marion Ravenwood. Marion Ravenwood later reveals that Mutt is Jones’ son, Henry Jones III. In the following struggle, Mac claims to Jones he is really a CIA double-agent to regain Jones’ trust. Spalko believes that the crystal skull belongs to an inter-dimensional alien life form and holds great psychic power, and that returning the skull to Akator will grant the Soviets the advantage of psychic warfare. Oxley’s mental conditions having devolved, Spalko uses the skull on Jones to identify a route to Akator. Jones and his allies escape with the skull into the Amazon, elude giant ants, and survive three waterfalls in a duck boat, where after Jones and Oxley identify markings that lead them to Akator, unaware that Mac is still loyal to Spalko and has been dropping transceivers to allow the Soviets to track them. Having escaped a native tribe guarding the city and gained access to the temple, filled with artifacts from several ancient civilizations, Jones believes the aliens were “archaeologists” studying the different cultures of Earth. The five enter a chamber containing the crystal skeletons of thirteen enthroned inter-dimensional beings, with one missing its skull. Spalko arrives and places the captive skull on this skeleton, whereupon the aliens offer a reward in a language that Oxley deciphers. The alien’s fuse into one, which activates a portal to their own world. Spalko demands knowledge equal to the aliens’, but in the process, she is dematerialized and sucked into the portal. Jones, Marion, Mutt, and Oxley escape, while Mac and the Soviets are also drawn into the portal, after Mac tells Jones to leave him behind. The survivors watch as the temple walls crumble, revealing a flying saucer rising from the debris, which vanishes into the “space between spaces” while the void left by its departure is flooded by the waters of the Amazon. Sometime later, Jones is reinstated at Marshall College and made an associate dean. He and Marion are then married in a church.

Trade Paperback reprints/collects: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Issues #1-2.  Dark Horse Comics

Trade Paperback is bagged & double boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printing
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Publication Date: 2008
Format per comic: FC, 96 pages, TPB, 10.25″ x 6.5″
ISBN-10: 1593079524
ISBN-13: 9781593079529

Collectible Entertainment note: Trade Paperback is Brand New & Unread.  Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Indiana Jones collector and/or enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Very Highly Recommended.

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