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Vol 10 No 1: I don't recall now why I was inspired to create a character who dressed like Indiana Jones--it might have been 'cause I was looking at my hat, and I knew where to get a whip (sometimes it's good to be the prop manager!). Maybe it was because I'd seen some ad promoting the 5th Indy movie. The world will never know.
Vol 10 No 2 is the 100th cover created for this series!
Every-so-often I look over the series of these images and think "Hmm, I need another cover with space ships" or, in this case, "...another cover with tentacles."
Vol 10 No 3 features the Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct looming in the background, which was one of the structures I visited on my 2015 road trip. More about it here. It's a long-form entry though, among many long-form pages, so you'll need to scroll down some.
Vol 10 No 4 has one of the very few (maybe the first) elements that I did not my self take a photograph of, nor create from whole pixels: the image of Saturn. That picture is available from NASA/JPL, and was taken by Voyager 2 in 1998. Thanks NASA!
It was also an excuse to utilize the prop blaster I'd just fashioned--from an old electric drill.
Vol 10 No 6(A) was based loosely on a short story I read, or heard on the radio, concerning a doll imbued with evil that manages foul events on an unsuspecting woman--unfortunately, I don't remember who wrote it or where I encountered it. My apologies for stepping on your toes, dear writer.
Vol 10 No 6(D) may describe a ghost who has fewer and fewer opportunities to haunt as less and less of our winters are really cold and a-blowing with snow.
The newspaper depicted, The Excelsior, really was an Omaha, NB-based paper of the era, though the layout is based on a scanned copy from a decade or so later; the database I was looking at did not have any copies of issues from 1888 on file. The photos are snowy scenes I shot on actual snow days, but the copy is contrived from information about the Great Blizzard of 1888 from multiple sources.
Vol 10 No 9 sees the second time I cribbed material from someone else: Jupiter. The planet with "the Big Red Spot" is seen in an image from NASA/JPL, taken by the Juno spacecraft in 2019.