[Depicted in Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods, a Dark Horse Comics series released from July 2008 through March 2009.]
Indiana is on a quest to find a mysterious artifact before it falls into the Nazi’s hands, and with the help of Marcus Brody and Jock Lindsey, he survives collapsing caves and shark infested waters throughout Tibet to Siberia.
Historical figures mentioned in this adventure are:
Joseph Stalin - A revolutionary and political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953, who led a communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, later combined to be known as Stalinism. Following the famine of 1932-33, Stalin implemented the eradication of any accused “enemies of the working class,” leading to The Great Purge where over a million people were imprisoned and at least 700,000 executed between 1934 and 1939. He’s remembered as a brutal dictator yet one of the most influential individuals of the 21st century, whose Red Army made the largest contribution in defeating Nazi Germany during WWII.
Bertolt Brecht- German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet, who fled Germany once Hitler took power, and whose notable works includes: The Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children.
Jack Benny - American comedian who played violin on the vaudeville circuit, who Indy is likened to when he makes a joke stranded in the Arctic Ocean. Benny was a major influence on the sitcom genre, who often portrayed his character as someone who obviously played the violin poorly and disingenuously claimed himself to be 39 years of age.
Hermann Oberth - Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and engineer, considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. He worked on the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany, and after World War II, also helped work on the Atlas rockets for the United States.
Wernher von Braun - Apprentice of Hermann Oberth, a German-born American aerospace engineer and space architect. He was the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany and a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the United States.
Locations in this adventure are:
Siberia - geographical region in Eastern Europe and North Asia, known primarily for its long, harsh winters, home to the world’s deepest and oldest lake, Lake Baikal, documented as 25 to 30 million years old.
Tibet - an autonomous region of China that shares Mount Everest with Nepal, which garners it’s reputation as the “Roof of the World” due to its towering peaks. The Tibetan Empire emerged in the 7th century yet soon divided into a variety of territories which at different times were under Mongol and Chinese rule. Its' capital, Lhasa, is home to the hilltop Potala Palace which was once the Dalai Lama’s winter home, as well as the Jokhang Temple, thought of as Tibet’s spiritual heart and revered for its golden statue of the young Buddha.
Bering Strait - located between the Pacific and Artic Ocean, named after Vitus Bering, a Danish explorer in the service of the Russian Empire. It is also the subject of the scientific theory that humans migrated from Asia to North America across a land bridge known as Beringia when lower ocean levels exposed a wide stretch of the sea floor.
Arctic Ocean - The smallest and shallowest of the world’s five major oceans, as well as the coldest as it’s covered by sea ice throughout the year.
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