Marvel is Whipping Indiana Jones Back Into Comics Adventures

Lucasfilm may be currently done with Indiana Jones on the big and small screens, but the adventurer still lives on the page.

At Friday’s San Diego Comic-Con panel, Lucasfilm announced Indiana Jones and the Sword of Pandemonium. Set after Raiders of the Lost Ark, the five-issue miniseries from Jason Aaron (Absolute Superman) and Aaron Kuder (Planet She-Hulk) sees Indy on the hunt for a “biblical weapon” that’ll challenge his long-held disbelief of the supernatural. Complicating things is the “impossible return of an archenemy” and the return of Marion Ravenwood, who’s recently come into possession of a power source for said weapon.

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Sword of Pandemonium will be Indy’s first new comic since the 2000s, and Marvel’s first since it had the license back in the 1980s. For fans of those old stories, they’ll be collected and re-released as a pair of deluxe hardcovers called The Further Adventures, whose contents include those original issues and comic adaptations of Raiders, Temple of Doom, and The Last Crusade. It doesn’t sound like Marvel plans to stop with Further Adventures and Sword, as its announcement called this a “bold new era” of comics for the archeologist and tales set during those original three movies.

This all begins with Indiana Jones and the Sword of Pandemonium #1 on December 9, preceded by the Further Adventures hardcovers on September 9.

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