RRS-1980 said:Do we have experts here to answer my question? If I want to see old books/comics/movies that contain "prototypical" Indy, what should I look for?
The main "prototypical" Indy is H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Quatermain
also Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King and HP Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.