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|style="vertical-align:top;"|As the US Army ramped up for its involvement in the war on the Korean peninsula, it realized that its soldiers were encountering problems with their equipment. The Army had experienced some degree of acceptance and success during WWII with the instructional publication [http://radionerds.com/index.php/Army_Motors Army Motors], for which Corporal Will Eisner, an established comic-book writer-artist-editor, had been appropriated to draw such characters as Private Joe Dope, Connie Rodd, and Master Sergeant Half-Mast McCanick. In 1951, the Army hired Eisner to create similar instructional material for its new publication, PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly.
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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. As of 2010, Kubert is the art contractor for the magazine, having begun his PS work in 2001.
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The magazine from its inception has been, written, researched, and edited by Department of the Army civilians. The home office of PS was located at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, from April 1951 through January 1955, when it was moved to Raritan Arsenal, New Jersey. It was moved again in October 1962 to Fort Knox, Kentucky. It remained there until July 1973, when it moved to the Lexington-Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky. In June 1993, it moved to Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.  In March 2011, the magazine published its 700th issue.<ref>"PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.</ref>
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:We have added a "special Issues" section, to house those special issues of PS Magazine reprints, posters and subject guides.
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:Scanning continues and we are actively filling in the gaps.  We have another meeting with the PS team to get more magazines, so stay tuned for more issues.
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:You might notice that the covers on some issues seem to be "dull", particularly the ones after 1986.  This is due to the change of the cover printing style from a glossy finish to a matte one.  Scanners use reflected light to gain a degree of "brightness" in scans.  Since this matte is not as reflective as the previous ones, they will not show as vibrant as the previous glossy ones did.  We are working on correcting this in the scanners, when we fix this we will rescan them.
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:We are adding issues from the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries which are issue numbers 1-229, these do not contain any OCR content.  We will OCR everything at a later date then update them all.  Our concern is that they resolution of the VCA versions may not be high enough to get accurate OCR output.  We might rescan to get that level at a later date.
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==We're Famous!==
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When we started this site, we never imagined the response we would get.  The support we received from the LOGSA / PS Magazine team to grant us access to those ultra rare and absolute MINT historical copies was simply huge!  We were even more surprised to see that we were honored to be included in a few issues of PS Magazine! 
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See our fame in all its glory below...
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File:742-pp61-snippet.png | Issue #742, September 2014
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File:745_PP47_Dec_2014.png | Issue #745, December 2014
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File:747_PP46_Feb_2015.png | Issue #747, February 2015
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File:757_PP46_Dec_2015.png | Issue #757, December 2015
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File:783_snippet.png| Issue #783, February 2018
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Latest revision as of 15:41, 14 March 2018

PS Magazine Archive

As the US Army ramped up for its involvement in the war on the Korean peninsula, it realized that its soldiers were encountering problems with their equipment. 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 Private Joe Dope, Connie Rodd, and Master Sergeant Half-Mast McCanick. In 1951, the Army hired Eisner to create similar instructional material for its 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. As of 2010, Kubert is the art contractor for the magazine, having begun his PS work in 2001.

The magazine from its inception has been, written, researched, and edited by Department of the Army civilians. The home office of PS was located at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, from April 1951 through January 1955, when it was moved to Raritan Arsenal, New Jersey. It was moved again in October 1962 to Fort Knox, Kentucky. It remained there until July 1973, when it moved to the Lexington-Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky. In June 1993, it moved to Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. In March 2011, the magazine published its 700th issue.[1]


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We're Famous!

When we started this site, we never imagined the response we would get. The support we received from the LOGSA / PS Magazine team to grant us access to those ultra rare and absolute MINT historical copies was simply huge! We were even more surprised to see that we were honored to be included in a few issues of PS Magazine!

See our fame in all its glory below...


  • Issue #742, September 2014

  • Issue #745, December 2014

  • Issue #747, February 2015

  • Issue #757, December 2015

  • Issue #783, February 2018

References

  1. ↑ "PS, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.
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