And the last of the Amazing Fantasy solicitations I did. Can you guess what I totally rip... errr, homaged? And I am proud I managed to milk what was arguably the second worst Enterprise episode ever.
AMAZING FANTASY #31
“STORM FRONT REDUX!” featuring
Indiana Jones, The Human Fly, and various elements of
Star Trek
Written by JACKSON LANZING (Star Trek)
Art by LEONARD KIRK (Star Trek: Deep Space 9)
Plot by CAPTCLEGHORN
Benny Russell is a Science Fiction writer of color. This caused him problems in the fifties, but through it all, he maintained his focus and churned out words. Years later, in 1976, he started having visions. The visions were supposedly caused by a device called the Orb of Time, located dozens of light-years from Earth. Just as Russell was ready to ignore these visions, one of them led him to what appeared to be a futuristic technological device. The evidence cause a landslide of information into his head about a nazi victory of WWII caused by manipulation of the time stream but fixed by other manipulations. Somewhere in NYC was a device that could restore the Axis victory. However, the device is buried in the NY Fed gold depository.
Benny seeks out an old friend who is well versed in archaeology and digging out relics from inaccessible locations. Dr. Henry Jones, Jr. was nicknamed Indiana and had seen enough weird happenings and objects to believe Benny’s visions. However, many of Indiana’s adventures happened when he was a younger man. In order to handle the physical strain of finding their way down into a vault buried stories beneath one of the busiest cities on the planet (Did we mention it was the beginning of July with the bicentennial celebration?) during possibly the biggest holiday in 200 years, Jones calls in a favor to a stuntman he knows, a mysterious gentleman known only as The Human Fly.
So can Benny, Indy, and Fly manage to get through massive parades and celebrations, get past tight security, and dig through busy city streets to get a device which may not even exist?
That, effendi, would be a truly amazing fantasy, wouldn’t it?
64 PGS/Rated T for teen (13+) audiences… $2.99