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Issue: Playboy #4
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Publisher: FlagPlayboy
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Indicia Publisher: HMH Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 17
Pages: 246
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.00 USD
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Content Items: 41 (1 story, 0 covers)
Editor(s): Hugh M. Hefner (editor, publisher); A. C. Spectorsky (associate publisher, editorial director)
Disclose Notes: Letter from Clint Eastwood commenting on the Harvey Kurtzman "The Good, the Bad, and the Garlic" photo story from the January issue.
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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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John Dempsey (signed)
John Dempsey (signed)
John Dempsey (signed)
John Dempsey (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Er, look, Slim—I don't want to break up a really important relationship ...
A cowboy's horse is upset when a woman enters the picture.
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Erich Sokol [as Sokol] (signed)
Erich Sokol [as Sokol] (signed)
Erich Sokol [as Sokol] (signed)
Erich Sokol [as Sokol] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Stop worrying, honey. My wife always spends the day with her mother when she thinks I'm out of town.
A husband brings his lover home, not realizing that his wife is in bed with her lover.
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Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
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humorous
Is this all I am to you, Arnold—a medium for social protest?
A protester paints slogans on a woman's nude body.
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Rowland B. Wilson (signed)
Rowland B. Wilson (signed)
Rowland B. Wilson (signed)
Rowland B. Wilson (signed)
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Subject Matter
historical, humorous
He's the most dangerous sword in France.
Two nobles comment on the clumsy sword technique of a duelist, who is more dangerous to bystanders than to his opponent.
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Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
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Subject Matter
fantasy, humorous
Atlas
Can't you set that damn thing down?
Atlas is stuck with holding the world on his shoulders, even when he wants to make love to a goddess.
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Doug Sneyd [as Sneyd] (signed)
Doug Sneyd [as Sneyd] (signed)
Doug Sneyd [as Sneyd] (signed)
Doug Sneyd [as Sneyd] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous, science and technology
No need to be embarrassed; being a doctor, your warm, lush, full body doesn't bother me a bit.
A doctor leers at his young nude female patient.
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Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
I've got a stockholder's meeting in twenty minutes, the board of directors is on my back, and all I can think of is your boobs.
A business executive is distracted by his secretary's low-cut dress.
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Alberto Vargas [as Vargas] (signed, painting)
Alberto Vargas [as Vargas] (signed, painting)
Alberto Vargas [as Vargas] (signed, painting)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Vargas
Sure I'm for the feminist movement. In fact, I'm pretty good at it.
A red-haired woman in red high heels sits on a chair, partially covered by a sheer gown.
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Man and the Idea

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Alphonse Normandia (signed)
Alphonse Normandia (signed)
Alphonse Normandia (signed)
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humorous
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Pages 164-167. A series of six short pantomime stories, with ideas given physical form as various birds.
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Brian Savage (signed)
Brian Savage (signed)
Brian Savage (signed)
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humorous
By being the unemployed father of seven, you think you've found yourself a nice little tax loophole, don't you?
An unemployed man doesn't get any sympathy from an Internal Revenue Service employee.
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Page 168.
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Malcolm Hancock [as Mal] (signed)
Malcolm Hancock [as Mal] (signed)
Malcolm Hancock [as Mal] (signed)
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humorous
You'll get a new bowl when I can afford a new bowl and not one minute sooner.
A man argues with a goldfish that has vastly outgrown its bowl.
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Gahan Wilson (signed)
Gahan Wilson (signed)
Gahan Wilson (signed)
Gahan Wilson (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous, science fiction
One small step for a znargh—a giant stride for znarghkind!
An alien steps from his spaceship, panicking the citizens.
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Page. 173. The punchline is taken from Neil Armstrong's statement "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." when he took the first step on the moon on 1969-07-20.
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Donald Reilly [as D Reilly] (signed)
Donald Reilly [as D Reilly] (signed)
Donald Reilly [as D Reilly] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
You can't talk to that crowd—they've all got extra Y chromosomes.
Two prisoners gossip about a group of prisoners gathered together in the middle of the exercise yard.
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Richard Taylor [as R. Taylor] (signed)
Richard Taylor [as R. Taylor] (signed)
Richard Taylor [as R. Taylor] (signed)
Richard Taylor [as R. Taylor] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
And if you young people get tired of television, there's a lots of good reading material.
A clueless mother thinks a teen girl and boy left by themselves will be bored.
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Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
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humorous
Let's just say we're moderates.
An older black man at a storefront office for "League for the Preservation of Uncle Tom" is confronted by a black militant.
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George Dole (signed)
George Dole (signed)
George Dole (signed)
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humorous
That's certainly going to take all the fun out of playing doctor.
Two boys have a conversation while leaving a sex education class at school.
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Robert Censoni [as Censoni] (signed)
Robert Censoni [as Censoni] (signed)
Robert Censoni [as Censoni] (signed)
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humorous
I can't tonight, Ralph. I've got the curse.
A witch talks on the telephone.
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Buck Brown (signed)
Buck Brown (signed)
Buck Brown (signed)
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humorous
Did you hear the one about the little Dutch boy who stuck his finger in the dyke?
Two lesbians talk at a gay bar.
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Edward Frascino (signed)
Edward Frascino (signed)
Edward Frascino (signed)
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humorous
I've had to be both mother and father to her.
A little girl talks to another girl about her doll.
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Page 194. Artist signature is not clear, credit from reprint album.
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Buck Brown (signed)
Buck Brown (signed)
Buck Brown (signed)
Buck Brown (signed)
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humorous
Gee, Mr. Davenport, you really make sex a fun thing!
A man turns his bedroom into a party room with decorations, balloons, champagne, etc.
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Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Should realize clear twelve hundred if sell now. On other hand, if wait, may climb, could hit seventy. Fourteen hundred if sell at seventy. Dear God, what should I do?
A man prays in church for advice on the stock market.
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Dink Siegel (signed)
Dink Siegel (signed)
Dink Siegel (signed)
Dink Siegel (signed)
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humorous
Gosh, what a dull party. I'd have left hours ago, but I misplaced my clothes.
A young woman complains of a dull party to her roommate, who is knitting an afghan.
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John Dempsey (signed)
John Dempsey (signed)
John Dempsey (signed)
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humorous
Oh, darling—you've finally cut the cord.
A wife is excited when her husband punches his mother in the face.
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Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
The administration is willing to give in to the first nine nonnegotiable demands, but under no circumstances will it consent to the dean of women being burned at the stake.
A college dean gives in to demonstrators' demands, except for one.
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Dennis Renault [as Renault] (signed)
Dennis Renault [as Renault] (signed)
Dennis Renault [as Renault] (signed)
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humorous
There goes one of antitrust's biggest headaches!
A motorist comments on a truck for "The World-Times-Star-Free Press-Bulletin-Chronicle & Gazette" newspaper.
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Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
You don't know how much I've always hoped to meet a girl from Ceylon.
A man brings a girl to his apartment. He has a world map above his bed with pins designating his conquests.
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Chon Day (signed)
Chon Day (signed)
Chon Day (signed)
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humorous
When you give him the transfusion, could you pump a little Latin blood into him?
A woman wants the doctor to make her husband more romantic.
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Michael Ffolkes [as ffolkes] (signed)
Michael Ffolkes [as ffolkes] (signed)
Michael Ffolkes [as ffolkes] (signed)
Michael Ffolkes [as ffolkes] (signed)
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Subject Matter
historical, humorous
Damn it, Paul, why don't you get a ladder?
A classical painter sits on his nude model's shoulders to reach the high part of his painting.
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Page 215. Artist reference may possibly be to Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens.
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John Ruge [as Ruge] (signed)
John Ruge [as Ruge] (signed)
John Ruge [as Ruge] (signed)
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humorous
For years I said I wanted a girl—just like the girl—who married dear old Dad—until I got a glimpse of what Dad had going on the SIDE!
At a cocktail party, a man discusses his father's taste in women.
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Page 216.
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Rocking Horse Rider

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B Kliban (signed)
B Kliban (signed)
B Kliban (signed)
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humorous
A nude woman prepares to mount a rocking horse, which has a man inside.
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Page 218. A pantomime cartoon.
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Slow Suicide

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Bill Lee (signed)
Bill Lee (signed)
Bill Lee (signed)
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humorous
A man is trying to commit suicide with a rope around his neck and tied to a limb of a tree. He's standing on a slowly melting block of ice.
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Page 222. A pantomime cartoon.
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A = B

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? [as Paré ?] (signed)
? [as Paré ?] (signed)
? [as Paré ?] (signed)
? [as Paré ?] (signed)
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humorous
An eye doctor points to a huge letter "A" on the wall. The patient responds "B."
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Page 224. Small word balloon in cartoon. Artist's name is not clear.
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Doug Sneyd [as Sneyd] (signed)
Doug Sneyd [as Sneyd] (signed)
Doug Sneyd [as Sneyd] (signed)
Doug Sneyd [as Sneyd] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
And on my left is the town's recreation center ...
A businessman shows a newcomer around town. At one corner he's either pointing out a recreation building or a streetwalker.
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Lee Lorenz [as Lorenz] (signed)
Lee Lorenz [as Lorenz] (signed)
Lee Lorenz [as Lorenz] (signed)
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humorous
Thank goodness there are still a few people left who aren't anti-establishment.
A rowdy group of old businessmen celebrate by having four young girls jump nude out of a cake.
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Rowland B. Wilson (signed)
Rowland B. Wilson (signed)
Rowland B. Wilson (signed)
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humorous
I don't care what HE says, Peckman. The Federal Government does not settle its disputes by trial by combat.
A disgruntled taxpayer wants to settle his dispute with the Internal Revenue Service by wrestling the tax auditor.
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Page 229.
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Bill Shaffer (signed)
Bill Shaffer (signed)
Bill Shaffer (signed)
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humorous, military
Are you familiar with the term 'beyond the call of duty'?
A general makes an inappropriate advance to his attractive military secretary.
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John Dempsey (signed)
John Dempsey (signed)
John Dempsey (signed)
John Dempsey (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Young lady, would you do an old chessmaster a favor?
Two men are playing chess at the nudist camp. One female onlooker is so close she's distracting one of the players.
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Page 233. Part of "Nudist Camp" series.
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Don Orehek (signed)
Don Orehek (signed)
Don Orehek (signed)
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humorous
Never mind about that yet ... first you've got to learn to wake people up!
A young rooster is impatient with an older rooster giving him instructions.
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Page 234.
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Couple Under Car

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B Kliban (signed)
B Kliban (signed)
B Kliban (signed)
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humorous
A couple are under a car in a repair shop, but they aren't doing any repairing.
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Page 236. A pantomime cartoon.
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Mort Gerberg (signed)
Mort Gerberg (signed)
Mort Gerberg (signed)
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humorous
Actually, I'm looking for something to defrock a priest.
A woman is looking for something in particular when shopping at a perfume counter in a department store.
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Page 238.
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Buck Brown (signed)
Buck Brown (signed)
Buck Brown (signed)
Buck Brown (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
I've changed my mind, turn me back into a frog.
After the "Dirty Old Lady" turns him from a frog into a prince, he has second thoughts when she wants to join him in bed.
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Page 241. Part of "Dirty Old Lady" series.

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