Indiana Jones Chronicles" explains how Indiana becomes solitary and less idealistic following his service in World War I. In "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", Jones is older and wiser, whereas his sidekicks Mutt and Mac are youthfully arrogant and greedy, respectively. Indiana Jones is modeled after the strong-jawed heroes of the matinée serials and pulp magazines that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg enjoyed in their childhoods (such as the Republic Pictures serials, and the Doc Savage series). Sir H. Rider Haggard's safari guide/big game hunter Allan Quatermain of "King Solomon's Mines", who dates back to 1885, is a
Indiana Jones (comics) a comic book [and his Marcus Brody is the spitting image of Denholm Elliott." In the latter series, he still found the simpler depiction of Belloq "amazingly just like Paul Freeman". Titan Magazines began publishing the "Indiana Jones Comic" in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2008. A series of three hardcover comics by writer Claude Moliterni and artist Giancarlo Alessandrini was published in France by the Bagheera publishing house. A number of the stories have been collected into trade paperbacks: Indiana Jones (comics) The Indiana Jones franchise has produced a large number of comic books. Marvel Comics initially owned