Will Eisner helped get comics up and running by partnering with Jerry Iger in the mid-1930s to set up the first shop devoted to producing original comics for the then nascent -- and soon burgeoning -- comic book market.  He moved on to create The Spirit, which ran for the decade through to the early 1950s.  Then he re-emerged in the late 1970s, publishing what was the first "graphic novel" (a term he coined), The Contract with God.  But wait -- what was he doing in between?  He was working for the US Army, is what.  From 1952 through 1972, Will Eisner produced 227 issues of P*S Magazine, which featured thousands  of pages of instructional comics drawn by or under the direction of Eisner, all designed to be as entertaining as could be allowed and still deliver the necessary informational messages.  This work represents the largest unified body of instructional comics / applied cartooning we have.  A couple of years back Abrams ComicArts published an excellent  272 page hardcover collection of this difficult to find (and that's putting it mildly) work.  Copacetic has recently made a special purchase of a decent quantity which we are now offering at a super price, HERE.

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