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Issue: Playboy #4
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Publisher: FlagPlayboy
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Indicia Publisher: Playboy Enterprises Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 18
Pages: 262
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UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.00 USD
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Content Items: 41 (3 stories, 0 covers)
Editor(s): Hugh M. Hefner (editor, publisher); A. C. Spectorsky (associate publisher, editorial director)
Disclose Notes: Headshot photo of Tomi Ungerer in "Playbill" on page 3. Panel clip art of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers as part of parody trivia quiz on page 104.
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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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Doral Auditions on Broadway

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The singing pack of Doral brand cigarettes shows up at a Broadway audition.
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Page 75. Ad for Doral cigarettes in six-panel comic story form. Art is unsigned, but might possibly be by Dink Siegel.
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[untitled]

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historical, humorous
One more thing. Take yon Cassius out and get him laid.
A Roman father notices his son eyeing the women in the bath.
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[untitled]

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I like it—it makes you look sexy.
One of the nymphs is wearing a fig leaf.
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Page 111. Part of the "Satyr" series.
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[untitled]

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Mrs. Moore, let me assure you my conduct toward your daughter will be totally honorable. But, don't ever let me catch YOU alone.
A teen boy finds his date's mother more sexy than her daughter.
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[untitled]

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But darling, it was only foreplay!
A man surprises his wife in bed with another man and she has a lame excuse.
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[untitled]

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You'll not get a proper trophy that way, Bassington!
A veteran big game hunter disapproves when a tiger attacks his less-experienced companion.
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Page 151.
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[untitled]

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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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Vargas Girl
Of course, there are certain kinds of inflation that I don't mind at all.
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Page 162. A blonde with a metallic gold skirt with a blue lining.
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Spring Rites

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anthropomorphic
Two anthropomorphic smoking pipes mate and have offspring.
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Pages 166-167. A 17-panel pantomime story with a four-line typeset introduction.
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[untitled]

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I can always tell when you're enjoying my lovemaking—you start losing your place.
A woman is reading a book in bed while having sex.
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[untitled]

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Dana Frandon (signed)
Dana Frandon (signed)
Dana Frandon (signed)
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I mean, if you've got to pollute the air, this is the baby to do it in.
A car salesman uses an ecological-theme sales pitch to sell a sports car.
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[untitled]

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Chart: I aman insaneeye doctorandiam goingtokillyounow ...
An insane eye doctor has his patients read a special eye chart while he sneaks up behind them with a knife.
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Page 179. A pantomime cartoon. Only letters are on the eye chart.
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[untitled]

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If God had intended us to be nude, He wouldn't have given us clothes.
Two middle-aged ladies walk by a theatre advertising erotic movies.
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[untitled]

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... The hand bone connected to the chest bone ... and the knee bone connected to the thigh bone ...
A rock band sings an old gospel song.
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[untitled]

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B Kliban (signed)
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I smoked pot once. It made me want to rape and kill!
Two policeman talk as they walk along a sidewalk in a run-down neighborhood.
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Snake Charmer

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A snake charmer's snake has died, so he uses an erection as a substitute.
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[untitled]

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I feel sorry for my new secretary ... she's had five unhappy marriages, all to former bosses.
A man tells his wife about his secretary's unhappy marriages.
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[untitled]

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And to think I was first attracted to you by your wonderful sense of humor.
A man opens the door to his apartment to find his pregnant girlfriend pointing a gun at him.
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[untitled]

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There's no sense looking ... Harry doesn't drink EITHER.
After having sex with another man's wife, a man looks for liquor to fix himself a drink.
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[untitled]

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None of us is happy ALL the time, Farley!
A depressed man in a clown suit sits at his kitchen table, while his wife tries to console him.
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Page 206.
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[untitled]

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Brian Savage (signed)
Brian Savage (signed)
Brian Savage (signed)
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humorous, religious
David; Goliath
What a cheap trick! Is it any wonder I'm anti-Semitic?
The Biblical David and Goliath story, as seen from Goliath's side.
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[untitled]

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I wish you'd look at me like that!
A narcissistic body-builder admires himself in a mirror, while neglecting his girlfriend, nude in bed.
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Got that? Smoldering sibling jealousy suddenly erupts into violence. Action!
A father directs his children in a psychological drama for a home movie.
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[untitled]

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As he opened the top button of her blouse and exposed more of her lovely skin, Rodric's heart pounded even more fiercely. His hands quivered as he reached to complete his task. 'Stop!' commanded Father Antonio.
A medieval monk writes erotica with a quill pen.
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[untitled]

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I screamed for help, officer. But I've changed my mind.
A woman changes her mind as she is seduced in the back seat of a car.
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[untitled]

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It didn't work. He STILL wants to go help with the sugar-cane harvest.
A stewardess tries to distract a hijacker by removing her clothes, but he still wants to go to Cuba.
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[untitled]

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Say—you're pretty sharp. How about quitting old Uncle Sam and coming to work for me?
A businessman thinks the Internal Revenue Service clerk auditing him could be useful in his business.
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[untitled]

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Protest sign: Abortions Endanger Women. Legalize Castration.
A man looks at a protest sign carried by a militant feminist.
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Page 228. A pantomime cartoon.
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[untitled]

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You've really been with us quite a while, haven't you, Hepburn?
A doctor, sitting on the side of a patient's bed, notices that the flowers on the bedside table have grown nearly to the ceiling.
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[untitled]

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B Kliban (signed)
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So, Marshall ... this is why you brought me here!
A woman is sitting on a couch with a drink when her date appears, clad in a body-length fish costume, wearing roller skates, and holding a pail of an unknown liquid and a paintbrush.
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[untitled]

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My dad thinks I'm jitterbugging at the malt shop.
Two teen couples are having sex in a motel room, unknown to their parents.
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[untitled]

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Another outburst like that and I'll clear the court.
A judge surveys the total chaos in his courtroom, which includes pie-throwing, wrestling, and rubber-tipped arrows.
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[untitled]

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Hey! What's WITH you two?
Two commercial artists are working side-by-side. The woman is drawing ads for men's underwear and the man is drawing ads for women's underwear. They end up in a sexual frenzy right by their drawing boards.
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[untitled]

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I don't care WHAT the Government is payin' for pork, I feel like a damn fool!
Two cowboys are driving a herd of pigs.
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[untitled]

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I'll never make it ... I suffer from acrophobia
Two businessmen look at a cloud labeled "Success" that's at the end of a long staircase.
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[untitled]

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Arnold, why must you always be Dracula? Why can't you occasionally be Wolf Man?
A woman's bed partner comes through her window dressed as Dracula.
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Page 242.
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[untitled]

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Another aim of the women's-liberation movement, Mr. Brierley, is to change male-chauvinist attitudes.
A woman at the nudist camp talks about women's liberation, while a man seated nearby blows a smoke ring around one of her breasts.
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Page 245. Part of "Nudist Camp" series.
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[untitled]

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Mischand
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Mischand
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I asked for the PEKING duck!
A diner in a restaurant is served a platter with a duck peeking out from under the platter's cover.
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[untitled]

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Peter Paul Porges [as Porges] (signed)
Peter Paul Porges [as Porges] (signed)
Peter Paul Porges [as Porges] (signed)
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humorous
Looking for your ball, honey?
A golfer is so far in the rough he is near the candy house of the witch from "Hansel and Gretel."
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[untitled]

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Just what do you want, fella, good grandma or good taste?
The "Dirty Old Lady" dances on the bar and does a strip-tease, while the bartender argues with a patron.
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Page 251. The punchline is a play on the "What do you want, good grammar or good taste?" slogan from then-current Winston Cigarette advertisements. Part of the "Dirty Old Lady" series.
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Let's see the little stinker try to steal THIS scene!
A movie actress prepares for a nude scene with a child actor, who's been stealing all her scenes.
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Page 252.
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Women's Lib

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humorous
Wanda Homefree; Annie Fanny; Popeye (cameo); The Shadow (cameo); Maggie (from Bringing Up Father) (cameo)
Spoof of the feminist movement and men's clubs.
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Pages 254-257. Credits are intentionally obscured with stickers, but apparently are "by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder." Title from Kurtzman's records.

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