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Posted by Anthony Tollin on May 12, 2008, 1:02:57, in reply to "Re: Wrong...and Still Wrong"
Link: The Shadow's sanctum
Allan Quatermain was probably an influence on Indiana Jones. However, it's also widely believed that Indy's major influence was the real-life explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, a friend of both H. Rider Haggard and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who disappeared in South America in 1925 while searching for an ancient lost city he called "Z."
Colonel Fawcett (who certainly demonstrated how adventurous a life someone could have with the name "Percy") was also credited by Walter Gibson as the inspiration for The Shadow's true identity of Kent Allard.
The first two Kent Allard novels are reprinted in THE SHADOW #15, along with a six-page article on Col. Fawcett by yours truly. It's available at comic shops or from Bud Plant or my own www.shadowsanctum.com website.
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