Will Eisner's last published work, The Plot, was his history of the hoax of the Twentieth Century, the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
Eisner devoted much of his life to promoting sequential-art storytelling, otherwise known as "comics", as an educational tool, as well as a legitimate art form. He also spent quite a few years proving both claims.
Eisner worked on The Plot for some twenty years, and by great good fortune, it was ready for publication when he died last January. He was fascinated by the way the evil book kept on reappearing, in translation after translation, no matter how many times it had been exposed as a forgery, and no matter how much documentation was produced as proof. Still, Eisner devoted his precious time and his valuable talent to the Augean task of spreading the word that the Protocols were a fraud, and now it has been published by W.W. Norton.
Unfortunately, graphic novels such as the Norton hardback are still only published in small editions for a niche market. What The Plot needs, if it is to be effective, is wide distribution, as wide as possible. If The Plot were published by DC or Marvel as a rather thick comic book and given what's still called "newsstand" distribution to grocery stores and K-Marts, it would have at least some chance of having the impact Eisner hoped for.
So how's about you mention that idea to DC and Marvel?
//The Magic 8-Ball says, "All you can do is whatever you can do."\\
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