1951 KOREAN WAR PS PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE MONTHLY WILL EISNER First Issue Vol 1

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Seller: burnunit503 ✉️ (1,762) 96.8%, Location: Brooklyn, New York, US, Ships to: US, Item: 232563491291 1951 KOREAN WAR PS PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE MONTHLY WILL EISNER First Issue Vol 1 . 1951 KOREAN WAR PS PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE MONTHLY WILL EISNER First Issue Vol 1 No 1 First issue Volume 1 Number 1, June 1951. PS The Preventive Maintenance Monthly. Published by the Department of the Army of the information of organizational maintenance and supply personnel. Comic book type illustrations by Will Eisner. 44 pages measuring 5 1/8 by 7 1/4". Condition is as seen in the photos. Wear with yellowing to the paper. Corners bumped. Many repairs with tape to the covers done a long time ago. No missing pages. PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly is series of United States Army technical bulletins published since June 1951 as a monthly magazine with comic book-style art to illustrate proper preventive maintenance methods. (The magazine's title derives from its being a "postscript" to technical manuals and other published maintenance guidance.) The Army had experienced some degree of acceptance and success during WWII with the instructional publication Army Motors, for which Corporal Will Eisner, an established comic-book writer-artist-editor, had been appropriated to draw such characters as Beetle Bailey-like Private Joe Dope, Lauren Bacall look-alike and "by the book" Corporal Connie Rodd, and Master Sergeant Half-Mast McCanick. Eisner left the Army as a Chief Warrant Officer to start American Visuals Corporation, a contract graphic art company. In response to a sudden need for maintenance instruction at the start of the Korean War, the Army contracted American Visuals in 1951 to create instructional material similar to Eisner's work on Army Motors for the Army Ordnance Corps's new publication, PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly. Eisner was the publication's artistic director from its inception through the end of 1971. The magazine's artists have included Eisner, Murphy Anderson, Joe Kubert, Dan Spiegle, Scott Madsen, Malane Newman, Alfredo Alcala, and Mike Ploog. The magazine from its inception has been, written, researched, and edited by Department of the Army civilians. Info from Wikipedia.
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