<P> One of the possible bases for Indiana Jones is Professor Challenger, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1912 for his novel, The Lost World . Challenger was based on Doyle's physiology professor, Sir William Rutherford, an adventuring academic, albeit a zoologist / anthropologist . </P> <P> Another important influence on the development of the character Indiana Jones is Carl Barks' comic character Uncle Scrooge, which, since his creation has been an intellectual property of the Walt Disney Company . Carl Barks created Uncle Scrooge in 1948 as a one - off relation for Donald Duck in a Donald Duck comic book . Barks realized that the character had more potential, so a separate "Uncle Scrooge" Dell Comics book series full of exciting and strange adventures in the company of his duck nephews was developed . This Uncle Scrooge comic series strongly influenced George Lucas This appreciation of Scrooge as an adventurer influenced the development of Jones in clear and obvious ways . For example, the prolog of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" contains an homage to Barks' Uncle Scrooge adventure" The Seven Cities of Cibola" published in "Uncle Scrooge" #7, Dell Comics, September 1954 . This homage in the film takes the form of playfully mimicking the removal - of - the - statuette - from - its - pedestal and the falling - stone sequences of the comic book . While a prototype of Uncle Scrooge in the beginning was Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol", quickly the personality of Scrooge took on some of the characteristics of H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain and Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger . This means then that Lucas and Spielberg may have been influenced directly by Haggard's Quatermain and Doyle's Challenger, as noted above, but also indirectly through Bark's / Disney's Uncle Scrooge . </P> <P> The character was originally named Indiana Smith, after an Alaskan Malamute called Indiana that Lucas owned in the 1970s and on which he based the Star Wars character Chewbacca . Spielberg disliked the name Smith, and Lucas casually suggested Jones as an alternative . The Last Crusade script references the name's origin, with Jones's father revealing his son's birth name to be Henry and explaining that "we named the dog Indiana", to his son's chagrin . </P> <P> Some have also posited that C.L. Moore's science fiction character Northwest Smith may have influenced Lucas and Spielberg in their naming choice . </P>

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