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Brabner edited Real War Stories for the CCCO and recruited top talent including Alan Moore, Brian Bolland, Denny O'Neil, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Steve Bissette. She describes the book as strictly non-fiction — no composite characters, no fictionalization — and recounts how two publishers got cold feet before Eclipse agreed to publish it. She reveals that Harvey Pekar wrote a story for the book that she rejected, and that her next project will be a comic about the Christic Institute's investigation into a CIA-linked secret team.

Sienkiewicz explains how Joyce Brabner recruited him to create the cover for Real War Stories, and how he chose a child's drawing style — inspired by the book Fire in the Sky, a collection of children's war drawings — rather than a conventional rendered image, to make the anti-war imagery more primal and powerful. Working on the project shifted his views considerably; he says he was previously ignorant of U.S. covert military involvement in Central America and is now far more skeptical.