Late 1936:
Government agents intercept a communiqué from Cairo to
Berlin believed to be send by Abner Ravenwood. Indy is consulted, since he has
had past dealings with Ravenwood, and is asked to investigate the Nazi
dig. He learns that they are looking for
the headpiece of the Staff of Ra so that they can locate the Well of the Souls,
the resting place of the lost Ark of the Covenant. Indy beats the Nazis, both
to the headpiece and to the Well of the Souls. Ravenwood's daughter, Marion,
becomes Indy's partner in the adventure and together they find the Ark. Belloq
shows up again to steal the Ark for the Nazis (he is their lead archaeologist)
but is killed when he opens the Ark to get the tablets containing the Ten
Commandments. The Ark is placed into storage in a secret government warehouse
somewhere in Washington.
(Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Late 1936:
Indy joins the "gateway project" in England,
investigating a crystal cylinder discovered within a Stonehenge monolith. Indy
works with an English woman, Professor Karen Mays, but the Nazis are also after
the secret of the discovery. Indy and Karen discover that the cylinder is the
key to a dimensional gateway. The Nazis steal the cylinder and try to summon
the beings from that dimension, but Indy and Karen stop them by destroying the
cylinder.
(Marvel comic #4-5 - Gateway to Infinity)
Late 1936:
Indy recovers a Piute summoning stone stolen from the
National Museum by a ring of international artifact thieves, led by Ian McIver,
with whom Indy had previously tangled over some tablets in Bangkok. In
retrieving the stone, Indy also gets a map dealing with the movements of a clan
of people called the Shintay, who supposedly split off from Atlantis. Indy and
Marion travel to Cameroon in West Africa and head into the Congo. They meet a
group of Nazis led by Colonel Vogel and Ian McIver, but all are captured by the
Shintay, who explain that they were banished from Atlantis because they worship
death while the Atlanteans revered life. Vogel tries to take a crystal power
orb and destroys the entire Shintay citadel leaving only Indy, Marion, and
McIver as survivors.
(Marvel comic #7-8 - Africa Screams)
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