Alison Dare: Little Miss Adventures in the TVCU
Adventure has a name.
His name is Indiana
Jones.
Adventure, as
it turns out, also has a goddaughter.
Her name is
Alison Dare.
Alison
Dating these
stories is difficult. The characters never mention a year, and the
technological status varies somewhat between anywhere from the 1930s to the
1940s. I’ve dated all of the adventures to 1944 on two facts:
1) Nazis appear
in full regalia, confirming the adventures take place pre-1945.
2) Alison’s
parents met at a dig infiltrated by Nazis. As she’s 12 years old during the
stories, her parents could have met no later than 1933. The Third Reich began
January 30th, 1933. Alison’s parents couldn’t have met much later than that.
Summer Break,
1944—Alison Dare and the Arabian Knights;
J. Torres and J. Bone
This comic is
collected in Alison Dare: Little Miss
Adventures, which has different contents than the graphic novel Alison Dare: Little Miss Adventures.
August 1944--Alison
Dare: Little Miss Adventures; J. Torres and J. Bone
Alison Dare
returns to school.
Tintin and Snowy
The broken-ear statue
The Ark of the Covenant
The Right Hand of Doom; Two of the Three Sankara Stones
Reference to
Officer Coffey, a major character on Hill Street Blues.
TINTIN and
Snowy appear in one panel
The
broken-ear statuette from TINTIN AND THE BROKEN EAR appears in one panel of the
same story as Tintin.
Ark of the
Covenant appears.
Two of the
shankara stones (the third, we might assume, is still in Fabian Gray’s
possession).
A framed
photograph of Indiana Jones is on Alison’s wall.
Alison Dare
and the Arabian Knights
The genie
performs his magic by uttering the words “Sim Sim Sala Bim!”
One of the
magically summoned Islamic guards calls out his battle cry of “Hassan chop!”
Alison Dare
and the Secret of the Blue Scarab
This story is
a pastiche of Silver Age superhero comics, and late Golden Age/early Silver Age
Romance comics.
Alan Dodd,
Alice Dare
The entire
issue is the set up for a pastiche of the original Blue Beetle
Alison Dare
and the Mummy Child
Baron von
Baron is Baron Struker
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