Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was the focus of a "Young Indiana Jones" series of young adult novels that began in 1990; by the ninth novel, the series had become a tie-in to the television show. German author Wolfgang Hohlbein revisited the 1912 prologue in one of his novels, in which Indiana encounters the lead grave robber—whom Hohlbein christens Jake—in 1943. The film's ending begins the 1995 comic series "Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny", which moves forward to depict Indiana and his father searching for the Holy Lance in Ireland in 1945. Spielberg intended to have Connery cameo as Henry in "Kingdom of
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