Cover C art by Cat Staggs shows two T-800s in a combat situation alongside a Huey helicopter. The T-800 in the foreground carries a future weapon that looks like the Westinghouse M-25 40-watt Phased Plasma Pulse-Gun seen in the Terminator movies, suggesting the scene depicted is meant to take place in the future. No scene like it occurs in this issue.

The "Backerkit Cover" cover by Ken Haeser depicts a T-800 holding what appears to be an AMT Hardballer .45 Longslide w/ lasersight, like the one obtained at the gun shop by the Terminator in The Terminator (and also seen in the "Goodbye to All That" episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles).

The quote by John F. Kennedy that opens the issue is one he actually made in a speech at Rice University in 1962, though edited down a bit here. Kennedy was the president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

The story opens at Cape Canaveral. Cape Canaveral has been a NASA space launch facility since 1950, located on the eastern coast of the Florida peninsula.

Page 4 takes place at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. The mission discussed by the Space Center personnel, the Gemini X4 launch, is fictitious. "Gemini", though, refers to Project Gemini, the second United States human spaceflight program from 1961-1966, after the first program, Project Mercury, to develop space flight that would lead to the later Apollo program's mission to land men on the Moon.

The rocket launch system used on pages 5-6 to launch Russell and Phillips in a Gemini capsule into space is a Titan II GLV (Gemini Launch Vehicle).

In orbit on page 8, Phillips tells Russell they're not getting a signal from CAPCOM. CAPCOM at NASA, stands for Capsule Communicator, the member of the mission control team on Earth who serves as the sole point of contact for astronauts during space missions, relaying information between mission control center and the space crew, acting as a single voice to prevent confusion from multiple people talking to the astronauts simultaneously.