Should keep your gun clean anyway, Yoc, and your rifle too. Eisner and friends worked on PS magazine at least through the Vietnam era, promoting PM. I can remember the first time I saw an issue of PS, in Basic Training at Fort Lewis, late in 1968. My first reaction was shock at the idea that the Army would have someone imitate Eisner's style, then even greater shock when I realised that I wasn't looking an an imitation, then frustration that I was with a hundred individuals and no one of them would know what I was talking about if I shared my discovery with everyone. The entire two years I was in the Army, I only met one person who knew who Will Eisner was and he was another draftee.
It's interesting to see how much more accessable the issues from the early fifties must have been for the troopers of the time. The brass monkey cover from 1953 undoubtedly put a lot of smiles on a great number of faces. I'm glad to see these being added. Someone could easily do a great Masters Thesis using the PS issues and the War Comics available on the site as primary texts. I personally find it interesting that it wasn't World War II that gave us war comics but the Korean War.
I digress. Thanks for adding these. I'm sure more than a few appreciate it.
