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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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09-05-2012, 12:09 AM
oliverbox
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I'm doing a file card for Indiana Jones. Here is my first crack at it. I think I'm going to go back and add in his service in WWI. I stuck in the Adventure Team stuff for him in the 70's and that's why I used the AT logo. I figured that's the last team he was officially on before retiring. I think he'd just be an adviser and not technically part of GI Joe. Any of you guys hardcore Indy fans that can add to or correct anything? Also, any opinions on if the AT logo works for Indy or if I should go with a GI Joe logo?
Brilliant. I'm a huge Indy fan. I own every comic book and every novel (except for the Young Indiana Jones novels). Excellent work on this. A few typographical errors: when you use "they're", I think you mean "their" and you make need a hyphen for "semi-retirement". Overall, however, I really like this.
I have also considered the notion that after KOTCS, which took place in 1957, Indy may have been recruited to help train and mentor a young Special Forces Lt. named Joe Colton. Indy was born in 1899, but the case you make for his long life based on the fact that he drank for the Holy Grail makes sense... at least as plausible as Nick Fury or Steve Rogers. I really liked the idea of Indy working with Steve Rogers in the OSS. Well done. It makes complete sense. After all, the original Indy comics were all published by Marvel, coincidentally at the same time as G.I. Joe was starting.
One thing you may reconsider is his MOS. As an OSS operative, it would make a lot of sense for Indiana Jones to be considered as a Special Forces Officer or more likely as a CIA Case Officer/Operative. The OSS, after WWII, split into two groups: US Army Special Forces, and the C.I.A. Most of the commandos in the OSS who did the grunt work and raids stayed in the Army and became the Green Berets. The Ivy League types from the OSS all went to Langley to start "The Company".
Indiana Jones could go either way. He's got all the credentials to have gone to the CIA, but he may have preferred the action of Special Forces. My own feeling is that he would have preferred the lack of structure and authority - not to mention the autonomy - of the C.I.A. That's just my opinion.
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