Give your patrons some preventive maintenance!

If your community has veterans of the Korean War era or later, chances are good that they've read at least one issue of PS Magazine, the Army's preventive maintenance journal. Consider telling them about older back issues that have been digitized by Virginia Commonwealth Universities libraries.

Why would they, you, or anyone else care about back issues of maintenance journals? Because they are also comic books:

Each issue of PS Magazine consisted of a color comic book style cover, often designed and drawn by Eisner; eight full pages of four color comic continuity story in the middle; and the rest was filled with technical, safety, and policy information printed in two color to save money. The continuity story starred his earlier character and was called "Joe's Dope Sheet." Each episode offers the same cautionary tale: a soldier who ignores preventive maintenance learns of its importance in the end. Eisner commanded a high level of freedom to create the continuity section and he used his colorful comic style to draw the reader in.

So this could be a fun memory. Check them out, and remember: