Actually meant to put this up awhile ago, but didn't get around to it. It's an unpublished Young Indiana Jones comic book page. My sources disagree on the timeframe. On the one hand, stylistically it looks to be an early- to mid-90s page, as it somewhat apes the "Adventures" style of Bruce Timm, which was very much in vogue at the time for taking PG-13 properties (Batman, The Mask, etc.) and making them more kiddified. If this is the correct reading of the page, then we could be looking at evidence that Dark Horse, Lucasfilm, or at least one or two editorial folks at one of the companies, was looking at a "Young Indiana Jones Adventures" line long before the anime-digest format made it the trendy thing to do, in 2008.
On the other hand, this is a better transfer than you usually see from a page that old. It's very clean, it's very crisp, it looks really good. It's ready for lettering and coloring. This is probably from some artist's personal collection of his/her own work. This could indicate that what we're looking at is much newer, firmly in the post-digital comic book world. This could be a tryout page from a creative team pitching a Young Indy comic for the Indiana Jones Adventures series.
Personally, I come down on the former side. The mid-90s comic book scene was a wasteland of cancelled projects, projects that one person that they were doing and another person thought they weren't, projects submitted on spec that never even got a second look from an editor, and so on and so forth. My money says this piece was from a Young Indy Adventures book that was at some mid-level stage of publication, someone started working on it, and then the book got canned.
Enjoy this page from "Young Indiana Jones and the Vaguely Middle Eastern Adventure."
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=61acc8d6db63464590a82c7bb0fad7ade04e75f6e8ebb871
On the other hand, this is a better transfer than you usually see from a page that old. It's very clean, it's very crisp, it looks really good. It's ready for lettering and coloring. This is probably from some artist's personal collection of his/her own work. This could indicate that what we're looking at is much newer, firmly in the post-digital comic book world. This could be a tryout page from a creative team pitching a Young Indy comic for the Indiana Jones Adventures series.
Personally, I come down on the former side. The mid-90s comic book scene was a wasteland of cancelled projects, projects that one person that they were doing and another person thought they weren't, projects submitted on spec that never even got a second look from an editor, and so on and so forth. My money says this piece was from a Young Indy Adventures book that was at some mid-level stage of publication, someone started working on it, and then the book got canned.
Enjoy this page from "Young Indiana Jones and the Vaguely Middle Eastern Adventure."
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=61acc8d6db63464590a82c7bb0fad7ade04e75f6e8ebb871