Unidentified museum (Indiana Jones)

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"Here, another footprint. We're nearing his home."
"Good. The museum isn't paying for footprints."
―A guide and Indiana Jones, during their jungle expedition[1]

A museum on the planet Earth hired Doctor Indiana Jones to travel to a jungle to find the legendary "Sasquatch"[1] between the Earth-years 1942 and 1943.[2] The creature was actually the Wookiee Chewbacca, who, along with his pilot, Han Solo, had crashed on the world in the YT-1300 light freighter Millennium Falcon 126 years earlier and been allegedly sighted in the thirty years prior to Jones' hiring. Jones made the expedition along with his companion Short Round and a guide.[1]

As they approached the ship's wreck, the guide identified one of Chewbacca's footprints and claimed to Jones that they were nearing the Wookiee's home. Jones responded that he was glad as the museum was not paying for mere footprints. After exploring the ship and encountering Solo's skeletal remains, Jones called off the search, deciding to leave Chewbacca as part of the unknown.[1]

Behind the scenes

The museum was mentioned in "Into the Great Unknown," a non-canon comic story written by Haden Blackman and published by Dark Horse Comics in Star Wars Tales' nineteenth issue[1] on May 14, 2004.[3] The comic serves as a crossover with the Indiana Jones franchise,[1] in which the titular character is specified to work for the National Museum in[4] the April 1981[5] novel Raiders of the Lost Ark by Campbell Black, which adapts the film of the same name[4] released on June 12, 1981.[6]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 StarWarsTales-Icon "Into the Great Unknown" — Star Wars Tales 19
  2. ↑ TwitterLogo W. Haden Blackman (@HadenBlackman) on Twitter (post): "No - they are two different characters in my mind. We never put the story on any timelines b/c it is an Infinities tale, but the Indy portion needs to be 7 or 8 years after ToD" (backup link) (In response to: But about Indy: Did you intended to state in Into the Great Unknown that Indy is Han reincarnated? & In which date is exactly set the story (both in the SW and Indy continuities)?)
  3. ↑ Marvel-TemplateLogo Star Wars Tales (1999) #19 on Marvel Comics' official website (backup link)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Raiders of the Lost Ark novelization
  5. ↑ BanthaCite "Updates" — Bantha Tracks 11
  6. ↑ Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition

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