EXTRAS:
Vol 9 No 2: the main portion of the background, the control panel, is actually a panel aboard the submarine U.S.S. Growler, on display in New York City, adjacent to the pocket aircraft carrier U.S.S. Intrepid, both afloat in the Hudson River. The Growler was an early attempt to create a guided missile submarine: a pair of what today we'd call cruise missiles were emplaced under a cowling on the bow of what is otherwise an ordinary 1950s era boat. To fire them, the sub would surface, withdraw the cover, raise the missiles, and launch them at their target.
Vol 9 No 4: this is what happens when I re-read the Dark Tower series: I get gunslingers. The fellow in the background with the mircophone (who is recording the incident for a podcast) also featured on the cover of Vol 7 No 6(D), one of the October "haunting season" issues.
Vol 9 No 6(B) features a shot of the inside of the wheelhouse of W.P. Snyder, a 100+ year-old towboat in Ohio, visited in the summer of 2021, at the Ohio River Museum in Marietta.
Vol 9 No 6(D) includes an actual concrete cap which covers -- well, I don't know what, which is part of the reason I imagined something cracking through and doing spooky things!
Vol 9 No 7 has a typo: it's numbered "8" but that's wrong -- but anyway, the bridge structure here depicting an inter-system salvage ship is actually the bridge of the U.S.S. Intrepid, which as noted in the above note for Vol 2, is moored in the Hudson River. I took some of the photos on that trip thinking "maybe someday they'll make good backgrounds!" and so they have from time to time.
Vol 9 No 8 -- the real No 8 -- has repurposed part of Cincinnati Union Terminal as an orbital platform.