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''War Picture Library'' was a British 64-page Pocket library war comic magazine title published by Amalgamated Press/Fleetway (now owned by IPC Magazines) for 2103 issues. Each issue featured a complete story, beginning in 1 September 1958 with "Fight Back to Dunkirk" and finishing 26 years later with "Wings of the Fleet" (3 December 1984).〔("Pocket Library Publications" at ComicsMagazines.com ). Accessed 11 November 2008〕 The Editor was Ted Bensberg. Assistant Editors included Geoff Kemp and Brian Smith. Other editorial staff included Pat Brookman, Terence Magee, Clive Ranger, Tony Power and Clive McGee. Art Editor was Mike Jones and Art Assistant was his brother Dave Jones. Companion titles ''Air Ace Picture Library'' (1960–1970) and ''Action Picture Library'' (1969–1970) were both folded into the longer-running ''War Picture Library'' in later years.〔 ==Publication history== Launched in September, 1958, the Amalgamated Press/Fleetway title ''War Picture Library'' was one of the earliest (arguably the earliest〔(Steve Holland, "Bear Alley: ''Unleash Hell''" 27 September 2007 ). Accessed 11 November 2008.〕) "pocket library" titles, and in particular one of the first to feature stories set during World War II. Comprising 64-pages, the tales were, according to Steve Holland "page turner() of the first order, a shilling shocker that grabbed () attention" of a – primarily – young audience.〔Holland, Steve, "Introduction" to ''Against All Odds'' (Prion/Carlton, 2008), pp. 6–7〕 Written and illustrated, at least in early years, "by creators who had lived through the war themselves, many on the front line," ''War Picture Library'' was able to show clearly to its target audience "what (reader's ) fathers and uncles had been through in combat."〔 ''War Picture Library'' brought the Second World War to life "()n all its grim glory," according to writer and editor Steve Holland.〔 The stories were not limited to tales of combat, some set in "the bomb-torn streets of London during the blitz," although the bulk of the stories released several times a month〔(Vic Whittle's "''War Picture Library'' Titles" page at his "British Picture (Pocket) Libraries" webpage ). Accessed 11 November 2008〕 for over two thousand issues were set in all fields of combat.〔 Crucially, reflecting the cultural shifts in popular fiction, the war stories did not always feature "a heroic journey," nor yet were all characters automatically "gung-ho" stereotypes: "() diversity of characters," human emotion and even some considerable sympathy for 'the enemy' was not out-of-place in some tales.〔 Running until late 1984, "''War Picture Library'' was a monthly window into a six-year global storm that affected every family in Britain."〔 The first-hand knowledge of many of its creators also enabled the stories to ring true, and disclose – in sometimes simplified, and always fictionalised terms – the truth behind the stories told in history books. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「War Picture Library」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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