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Issue: Playboy #2
Publication Date: February 1970
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Issues: #2 of 720 Issues
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Publisher: FlagPlayboy
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: HMH Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 17
Pages: 234
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.00 USD
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Content Items: 48 (1 story, 0 covers)
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Disclose Notes: Headshot photo of Buck Brown in "Playbill" on page 3.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: magazine size
Paper Stock: heavy coated paper
Binding: saddle-stitched (v1#1 - v32#9); perfect bound (v32#10 & up)
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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[untitled]

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Genres: fantasy, humorous
First Line: This wasn't the first time you've been saved from a dragon, was it?
Synopsis: A knight gets his reward from an "experienced" princess.
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Artists & Models

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Synopsis: Cartoons with artists and models as subjects.
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Disclose Notes: Page 91-93. Ten cartoons, seven with captions and three pantomime. One cartoon is based on "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2," a 1912 painting by Marcel Duchamp.
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First Line: Seeking underwater delights?
Synopsis: A mermaid entices a snorkeler.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Oh, yes, big round ones are really in now.
Synopsis: A reclining girl makes an observation about her rose-colored glasses.
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First Line: Do you think this will be as much fun back home in Indianapolis?
Synopsis: A newly-wed bride has a question on her honeymoon.
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Head First

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Synopsis: A hunter, whose walls are covered with trophies of horned beasts, prepares to use his head to butt a woman into bed.
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Genres: historical, humorous
First Line: I've just got time for a quickie!
Synopsis: A knight just takes off a small portion of his armor before bedding a damsel in a haystack.
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First Line: Instrument failure. I had to bring her in by the seat of my pants.
Synopsis: A pilot makes an understatement after landing a huge jet airliner without instruments.
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First Line: First of all, who gave you permission to start a glee club?
Synopsis: A dungeon-master confronts five prisoners who are singing in their cell.
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First Line: Alice—would you please go tell Mrs. Starkweather that Miss Pennie is back from San Francisco State?
Synopsis: A well-to-do man sits in a deck chair, noting that his daughter has returned home from college, frolicking naked and accompanied by two guitar-playing hippies.
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First Line: They're not supposed to be able to do that.
Synopsis: Tropical natives, sitting on an elevated hut over water, are dismayed when alligators climb up the poles holding the hut up.
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First Line: You've had your little fling in suburbia, Norma. Isn't it time you came back to the East Village and lived like a normal, decent human being.
Synopsis: A man from New York tries to get his wife to come back from the suburbs.
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First Line: My God! My husband!
Synopsis: A fat lady in the circus is caught in bed with the human skeleton by the woman's husband, a very short man.
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First Line: My God—I've forgotten the number of my Swiss bank account!
Synopsis: A third-world dictator escapes from a mob in a helicopter, but might have trouble accessing his stolen wealth.
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Shadow Sex

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Synopsis: A man manipulates his hands so they throw a shadow of a couple having sex.
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First Line: In a place called Chicago ... there's a man who lives in a mansion full of beautiful women and wears pajamas all the time. Sit at his feet and learn from him, for he has found the secret of true happiness.
Synopsis: A guru at the top of a mountain advises a man to see Hugh Hefner for the secret of true happiness.
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Curiosity Killer

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Synopsis: Neighbors on adjoining apartment buildings have balconies facing each other. The man on one puts partitions around his balcony, leaving just a peephole to see in. The man in the other balcony tries to see in the peephole, but falls off. The first man then takes down the partitions and flirts with the fallen man's wife.
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First Line: As your physician, I must advise you against holding out for a Republican heart.
Synopsis: A man is in the hospital for a heart transplant, but only wants a Republican one.
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First Line: My God, Ned, couldn't you wait until the Friday night party?
Synopsis: A husband finds a friend naked in his bedroom closet. He can't understand why the man didn't wait until the weekend wife-swapping party.
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First Line: Group A, which is on the pill, seems definitely better adjusted than Group B, which is still on condoms.
Synopsis: Two scientists do a birth control experiment with rats.
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Genres: historical, humorous
First Line: I'm worried about Doodle, sir. He keeps sticking a feather in his hat and calling 'Macaroni.'
Synopsis: In a Revolutionary War camp, an aide tells the commander he's worried about one of the soldiers.
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Disclose Notes: Page 189. Punchline is based on the lyrics to "Yankee Doodle."
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First Line: We just adore animals, too.
Synopsis: Two wealthy couples walking their dogs meet on the street. All are wearing expensive fur coats and hats, while talking of their love of animals.
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Leda's Rival

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Character(s): Leda
Synopsis: Leda is concerned when her swan lover has wandering eyes for a passing swan.
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Disclose Notes: Page 192. Based on the Greek myth "Leda and the Swan."
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First Line: Pardon me, I'm looking for a consenting adult.
Synopsis: A man at a bar comes up with a new pick-up line when he approaches two women.
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First Line: Buckminster WHO?
Synopsis: An Eskimo building an igloo hasn't heard of Buckminster Fuller and his geodesic domes.
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Penciller(s): ? [as Michaud] (signed)
Inker(s): ? [as Michaud] (signed)
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Genres: humorous
First Line: You will meet a tall, dark chest man.
Synopsis: A fortune teller makes a prediction to a very buxom woman.
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First Line: Ah! It's good to be home, surrounded by those who love you.
Synopsis: A policeman settles in a chair in his apartment, ignored by his wife, who's reading a magazine, and his children, who are watching television.
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First Line: Damn it, how long does the grass have to be?
Synopsis: A man uses a yardstick to measure the height of the grass before starting a love-making session.
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First Line: All right, young man, you want to marry our daughter because you 'dig her bod.' Now, can you give us any other reason?
Synopsis: A man asks a girl's parents for permission to marry her, but they aren't satisfied with his reason.
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First Line: How's this? 'Two young bachelors marooned on a tropical island, longitude and latitude approximately one hundred fifty-two degrees west by sixteen degrees south, desire company of two young women. Swingers only need reply. Photos not necessary.
Synopsis: Two men stranded on a desert island compose a personals ad for their message in a bottle.
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First Line: A girl like you shouldn't be hustling in a joint like this. You ought to become a callgirl.
Synopsis: A man in a bar tells a girl she should aim for a more wealthy clientele.
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First Line: They allow me violence, but they won't allow me sex.
Synopsis: Two boys watching television reflect on their parents' contradictory messages.
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First Line: Thank you again, sir ... Now, will you go on with your order!
Synopsis: A customer keeps complimenting a topless waitress on her breasts.
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Luncheon on the Grass

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Feature(s): The Playboy Art Gallery
Synopsis: A redrawing of Édouard Manet's "The Luncheon on the Grass" (1863) with the characters playing strip poker.
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First Line: You're a nice man to visit, Brian, but I wouldn't want to live with you.
Synopsis: After a romantic interlude, a woman gets dressed, while the man smokes a cigarette in bed.
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First Line: Marie, go to the front door and see if that damned light's gone out.
Synopsis: A brothel doesn't have any customers.
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First Line: Regan, call headquarters and tell them we've got a jurisdictional dispute here ...
Synopsis: Leaders from the "League for Moral Uplift" and the "Animal Humane Society" fight to see who gets to make the police shut down a theater featuring an act with a woman and an ape.
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First Line: Professor Zlata! You're just in time to be the planet Neptune!
Synopsis: Scientists pretend they're planets for an experiment.
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Genres: humorous, religious
First Line: We're living in a sick society where the traditional values have before practically worthless ... the pound, the franc, the dollar ...
Synopsis: A pastor talks to a visitor and laments the loss of value of currencies.
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First Line: But, baby—what could be more natural than cowboys and Indians?
Synopsis: A cowboy makes a play for a reluctant Indian girl.
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First Line: Hold It! You didn't find the napkin you dropped—you found my dress!
Synopsis: In a booth at an exclusive restaurant, a man drops his napkin, but accidentally picks up the hem of his date's white dress, pulling it down and leaving her breasts exposed.
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First Line: Speaking of old wives' 'tails' ...
Synopsis: Two old men, sitting on a park bench playing checkers, watch an older lady in tight pants walk by.
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First Line: For the record, just make it five ayes and one nay.
Synopsis: At a board of director's meeting, one member shows his displeasure with a motion by giving the others a middle finger gesture.
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First Line: Even if you weren't such a great stud, Mr. Glutz, I'd still regard you as a wonderful human being.
Synopsis: After an outdoor evening love-making session, a woman compliments the man, who is making a mixed drink.
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First Line: You've been avoiding me lately, Harold ... Is it my breath?
Synopsis: An obviously pregnant and clueless teen girl asks a boy why he's been avoiding her.
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First Line: I'll have to say goodbye, Marge. Frank will be home any second and he likes to unwind immediately.
Synopsis: A wife is lying nude on the couch, waiting for her husband to come home from work.
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First Line: Now try it for pickup.
Synopsis: A used car salesman has a man out for a test drive in a convertible. He gives a suggestion that could be appropriate for either the car's acceleration or for getting the attention of the attractive blonde walking on the sidewalk beside it.
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First Line: Good news, everyone! Granny is rallying!
Synopsis: The "Dirty Old Lady" is sick, but is well enough to grab the doctor's head and force it into her bosom.
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