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[[File:psmagazine_684.jpg|frame|[[Sgt. Rock|Even Easy Company]] knows that Half-Mast knows what he's talking about!]]
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'''''PS Magazine, The Preventive Maintenance Monthly''''' is a monthly magazine published by the United States Army revolving around '''preventive maintenance''', the repair and maintenance of army equipment. It is an informative magazine issued for free to army units which perform said preventive maintenance regularly, such as engineering, motor pool, aviation and armorers. Each month, the magazine features articles on the maintenance and repair of myriads of army equipment, such as vehicles, communications equipment, weaponry, etc. It also features a small little story in the middle of each issue, entertainingly (and often humorously) spotlighting a particular topic of interest when it comes to preventive maintenance. Because of the magazine's useful information and supplemental nature, pretty much every Army workshop has a library of issues of it, sometimes going back decades, depending on the unit.
What makes this magazine worthy of interest for tropers is not only its narrative nature (which makes the technical information ''much'' easier to swallow), but also that, since the its inception, it has been drawn by a roster of '''''[[Comic Books|comic book legends]]'''''. The magazine itself was created in June 1951 when the Army approached a corporal serving them to draw it. The corporal's name? ''[[Will Eisner]]''. Other famous artists to draw the magazine include Murphy Anderson ([[Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?|Curt Swan's]] inker, and the designer of the classic [[Silver Age]] looks of characters such as [[The Flash]], [[Adam Strange]], The Atom and, yes, [[Superman]] and [[Batman]]), Dan Spiegle (artist of classic comics like ''[[Blackhawk]]'', ''[[The Brave and the Bold]]'' and ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'') and Mike Ploog (artist of ''[[Ghost Rider]]'', ''[[Man-Thing]]'' and ''Werewolf By Night'').
''PS'' has a stable of recurring characters featured in their stories. The current characters are:
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As of March 2011, ''PS'' has reached 700 issues and has been continuously running for 60 years, putting it in good company with comic books like ''[[Action Comics]]'' and ''[[Detective Comics]]'' as a [[Long Runner]] among illustrated magazines. If any troper has the chance to pick an issue up (just ask a soldier friend to get it for you), the magazine is a fun read. Even if you can't understand the technical information on the topics discussed, it is still gorgeously illustrated and entertaining.
[[The Other Wiki]] reports that "Paper production ended with the June 2017 issue; it is now in APP format only."
Interested in some of the classic art? [https://web.archive.org/web/20131015073545/http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2010/12/29/the-preventive-maintenance-monthly-covers/ Here's an article spotlighting covers from the classic Will Eisner days!]
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