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Issue: Playboy #5
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Publisher: FlagPlayboy
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Indicia Publisher: HMH Publishing Co. Inc.
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Volume: 17
Pages: 254
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Price: $1.00 USD
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Content Items: 46 (2 stories, 0 covers)
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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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How about it, J. B.? Miss Band-Aid of 1970.
An ad man makes a pitch for a campaign based on a nude woman with strategic spots covered with band-aids.
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Ze Kaiser's mistress is flat-chested!
In the middle of a multi-plane World War I dogfight, a French pilot insults a German one.
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The love is free, the sex will cost ten bucks.
A college girl brings a fellow demonstrator back to her room, but there's a catch.
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Giddap, damn it!
A nude woman on horseback (apparently Lady Godiva) can't get the horse to stop admiring her form.
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I guess this pretty well blows your 'sweet sixteen and never been kissed' theory all to hell.
Parents are shocked when they come home to find their daughter's 16th birthday party has turned into a wild orgy.
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And I suppose this is where he rests between inspirations.
An artists holds a showing of his abstract nudes in his gallery, which includes a bed.
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Who hired this clown?
A clumsy executioner causes collateral damage with his axe.
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Wait fifteen minutes, the meter will expire, then you can bust us for illegal parking, too!
A policeman looks at a couple engaged in amorous activity in the back seat of a convertible with the top down.
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There ought to be a law to make you young girls wear brassieres.
A man drives his car into a pole when he's distracted by young girls.
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And when you move up to the executive suites, will you put in a good word for me?
In a reverse of the traditional roles, a man in bed with a woman asks her for help with his career.
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My parents would die if they knew I was involved with a rhinoceros.
A woman is in love with a rhinoceros.
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Just a reminder to tune in next week, when another prominent Washington wheeler-dealer makes an ass of himself.
The host for a television political interview show is a little too upfront.
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When you asked for a three-day pass, Dombrowsky, I assumed that you wanted to GO somewhere!
A sergeant doesn't know what to do with a soldier who spends his leave with a woman in his bunk, drinking beer.
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Bidwell, when a man works 35 years for Krepton Industries, we don't give him a lousy gold pin.
A company head shows an underling into a a room where a woman in a negligee is waiting on a couch.
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MRS. Portnoy?
A woman goes to the complaint department of a store.
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Page 186. Punchline is a play on the 1969 novel "Portnoy's Complaint" by Philip Roth.
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What a glorious sunset, eh? And you complain about the kind of world I've given you.
A man takes credit for something he didn't have anything to do with.
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I don't think you're dying of thirst at all, you dirty old man!
A grizzled old man is chasing a blonde in short dress and high heels across the desert.
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I meant it was stuck and I wanted it UP, not stuck and I wanted it DOWN!
A bellboy makes a mistake when helping a woman with the zipper on the back of her dress.
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Boy, I sure don't look forward to rejecting THEIR values.
Two young boys watch their parents cuddle and drink beer while watching television.
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Ammo.
A shifty-looking character comes into an office that advertises "Money Loaned for Any Purpose" and has a blunt request.
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Just a minute, how come we're always looking for a WHITE whale!?
The only black oarsman of a whaling harpoon boat wonders why they only look for a white whale?
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Page 203. Parody of Captain Ahab and his quest in Herman Melville's 1851 novel "Moby Dick."
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Damn it, Fennelman, for the last time—the people from the Pentagon will NOT want to see it samba!
A military scientist makes a large four-legged vehicle that can dance.
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Will you stop tail-gating!
A woman in line to see movies at a nudist camp complains that the man behind her is following too closely.
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It's not very romantic yelling out 'Position number two! Position number four!'
A woman complains her partner is not very romantic in bed.
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I hope you're charging more than one dollar for that, Miss Collins!
A woman manning a kissing booth at a church bazaar is providing some extras.
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My balls are killing me.
Two men are chained by their wrists to the wall of a dungeon. Iron balls are shackled to their ankles, with no support.
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Sanford has gradually become good-humored about the pussies.
A man sits on the floor with a dazed look, as his wife talks to a visitor. There are two dozen cats scattered around the room.
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Now, child, didn't that cure those nasty old hiccups?
In an apparent 19th century scenario, a man is in an orate brass bed with an under-aged girl.
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When you said you liked a little 'eye-opener' in the morning, I assumed you meant you were a drinking man.
A man wants some action in bed as the sun rises over the street outside.
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'Rape! Rape!' 'No, silly, it's strawberry!'
A man has ravished a woman, and is now spreading strawberry jam on her thigh.
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Page 217. Dialogue is in two hand-lettered word balloons.
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Violence! Unrest! Predictions of more disturbances! And that was only the weather report!
A man and his wife are disturbed by the weather report on television.
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Oh, don't be worried Mr. Hadley ... we all have our little sexual hang-ups ...
A woman undresses for bed. Her bed partner holds a Minnie Mouse mask that he apparently wants her to wear for sex.
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It was there, in the mud and rain at Woodstock, as we shared a joint and you offered me some of your cornflakes, that I knew I wanted you to be the mother of my children.
A counterculture man has an unusual reason for proposing to a woman.
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Number six is strictly a mudder.
Two racetrack touts watch the horses parade to the starting line. Number six is an alligator.
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Now the whole point of this next scene is that we're satirizing the advertising business and the Madison Avenue crowd!
A movie director explains the concept of the next scene to a woman, who's clad only in a collar and tie and a vest.
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Page 226. Satire of movie-makers who claimed social content, when all they wanted was to film nearly nude women.
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Do you spell your name A-l-l-E-n or A-l-l-A-n ... ?
A man on a desert island is carving a heart into the trunk of a palm tree and wants to know the proper spelling of the name of the other man on the island.
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Y'know, Dave, if you had a good golf swing, you'd have everything.
A man has an expensive house with a swimming pool and a beautiful female companion, but his friends still razz him about his golf game.
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Page 231.
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The Sign Painter

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A billboard artist draws a crowd when he appears to be drawing a nude woman, but his audience disappears when he finishes the drawing of a dog advertising dog food.
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Page 233. A six-panel pantomime story.
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I have this fantastic group tour for your wife-swapping club where you can change twenty-three partners in seventeen cities in fourteen days.
A travel agent has an unusual travel plan.
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Good morning, Fred!!!
A group of back-biting vice-presidents make sure that the head of the company knows that another vice-president is late to work.
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Say, you must be the nymphomaniac George is always talking about.
A man makes a blunder when making conversation with a friend's date.
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You think I don't understand what real hunger is? I'm only allowed cottage cheese and fruit salad.
An executive doesn't have much sympathy for a pan-handler.
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He doesn't grab me anymore!
Two cavewomen are talking about a passing caveman with a club.
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Yes, we do have a lot in common, Miss Freebish, but let's face it—where it really counts, we're really quite different ... !
A nude man talking to a buxom nude woman makes a statement that could be taken in various ways.
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Page 241. Part of "Nudist Camp" series.
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Things didn't go well with my therapy group this session.
A wife is surprised to see her husband come home from his therapy group with a black eye and torn clothes.
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Nudist Therapy

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Annie Fanny; Wanda Homefree; Whistler's mother (cameo); Dick Tracy (cameo); Jiggs (cameo)
Spoof of nude therapy workshops.
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Pages 245-249. Credits read "by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder." Title from Kurtzman's records.

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