PS Magazine- the Preventive Maintenance Monthly

PS Magazine was launched in 1951 and is still being published today. Although not strictly a comic, it was created by a true comic book great, Will Eisner.

Eisner had already found success with "The Spirit" newspaper insert when, during World War II, he was drafted into the Army. There he worked on publications, creating a hapless and incompetent character named Joe Dope.

With the end of hostilities, Eisner founded "American Visuals Corporation" to produce educational illustrations and cartoons. In 1951 he was hired by the Army to create a new instructional magazine modeled on the WWII "Army Motors", which he had worked on. The brief was to create a similar publication to promote preventive maintenance as a postscript ("PS") to existing channels, and for it be something that soldiers would want to read.

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