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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade                                 Magazine
The Marvel Comics’ official comic adaptation of the 1989 movie… Presented in Glorious Black & White. Awesome!!
Writer: David Michelinie
Artist: Bret Blevins
Inkers: Al Williamson, Mike Manley & Al Milgrom
Letterer: Bill Oakley
Editors: Bob Budiansky, Dwayne McDuffie & Tom DeFalco
Cover by: Bret Blevins
 
There isn’t a man, woman, or child walking this earth who hasn’t heard of Indiana Jones, the greatest adventurer of all time. Now with Marvel Comics’ official comic adaptation of the 1989 movie “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, it’s time to re-live the magic. 

Story/Spoilers (featuring the full Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989 Movie Synopsis for nostalgic remembrance)
In 1912, a teenage Indiana Jones discovers a group of robbers finding a crucifix owned by Coronado while exploring caves with his Boy Scout troop in Utah. Believing it belongs in a museum, Jones takes the crucifix and evades the robbers to return home. However, the town sheriff arrives and forces Jones to hand it over to the robber’s employer. Years later in 1938, Jones again confronts the employer off the Portuguese coast, recovering the crucifix and escaping.

After returning to the United States, Jones learns that his father Henry has disappeared while searching for the Holy Grail. Walter Donovan, his father’s financial backer, tasks Jones with finding both Henry and the Grail. Jones receives a package containing Henry’s diary, which includes his research on the Grail, and travels to Venice alongside Marcus Brody to meet Henry’s associate Elsa Schneider. Beneath the library where Henry was last seen, Jones and Schneider discover a catacomb containing an inscribed shield which reveals that the path to the Grail begins in İskenderun. The two are subsequently attacked by a mysterious group who reveal themselves to be the secret Order of the Cruciform Sword, dedicated to protecting the Grail. After saving the group’s leader, he informs Jones that Henry is being held at a castle in Austria. Jones entrusts Marcus with a map from the diary detailing a route to the Grail and sends him to İskenderun to rendezvous with their old friend Sallah. Discovering their rooms have been ransacked, Jones reveals the diary’s existence to Schneider before they sleep together.

In Austria, Jones and Schneider infiltrate the castle, discovering it to be under Nazi control. Jones finds Henry and tries to escape, but surrenders after Schneider is held captive by the Nazis. She reveals herself to be a Nazi collaborator, and Jones and Henry are tied up and learn that Donovan is also working with the Nazis. After arriving in İskenderun, Marcus is captured by the Nazis as well. Schneider returns to Germany, while Jones and Henry escape the castle before traveling to Berlin to retrieve the diary. After recovering it from Schneider, Jones and Henry flee on a zeppelin before evading two Luftwaffe planes pursuing them.

Arriving in Hatay, Sallah reveals to Jones and Henry that the Nazis have also traveled there using the map. While they are following the trail, the Nazis are attacked by the Order but defeat them. Henry takes advantage of the distraction to try and rescue Marcus but is captured; Jones attacks the Nazi convoy in response and is eventually able to destroy it with help from Henry and Marcus. Jones, Henry, Marcus and Sallah proceed to a temple containing the Grail, where they observe the Nazis attempting to overcome the temple’s traps before being captured. Donovan forces Jones to find a way for them by mortally wounding Henry. With the help of the diary, Jones overcomes the traps and finds a room with hundreds of cups and an ancient knight, who explains that only one cup is the true Grail. Donovan enters the room, dying by drinking from the wrong cup, before Jones identifies the true Grail and saves Henry. Schneider falls to her death when she attempts to leave with the Grail, causing the temple to collapse. Jones and his companions manage to escape, riding off into the sunset.

Magazine reprints/collects: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Issues #1-4.  Marvel Comics

Magazine is bagged & 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: Marvel Comics
Publication Date: August 1989
Format: BW, 84 pages, Mag, 10.8″ x 8″
UPC: 071486026204

Collectible Entertainment note: Magazine is in Fine to Very Fine condition.  Nice!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Indiana Jones and/or Movie adaptation collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Very Highly Recommended.

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