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Issue: Playboy #1
Publication Date: January 1966
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Issues: #1 of 720 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPlayboy
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: HMH Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 13
Pages: 266
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 41 (5 stories, 0 covers)
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Disclose Notes: Five letters of comment in "Dear Playboy" on page 20 & 22 on Jules Feiffer's "The Great Comic Book Heroes" article from the October 1965 issue. Included are letters from S. R. Powell [Bob Powell], Joe Simon, Milton Caniff, and Mort Weisinger. Brief review of Feiffer's book "The Great Comic Book Heroes" on page 34. Review of Bill Mauldin's cartoon compilation "I've Decided I Want My Seat Back" on page 36. Article "John Held, Jr. Creator of an Era" on pages 89-97, featuring covers and cartoon reprints from Life Magazine from the 1920s.
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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: humorous
Character(s): Santa Claus
First Line: Oooo, you're early! Wait till I take my stocking off.
Synopsis: A woman is wearing a full-body stocking when Santa arrives.
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First Line: Harry! YOU?
Synopsis: An average middle-aged housewife opens a closet and is surprised to find a complete Superman outfit.
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First Line: Oh, good grief! The kids are home for the holidays.
Synopsis: A wealthy conservative man is unsettled when his counterculture children come home from college for the holidays.
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First Line: Nice defensive move, Miss Mullins ... !
Synopsis: In judo practice, a woman sparring with a man slips out of her jacket as he goes to throw her, leaving her topless.
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First Line: Have I celebrated New Year's Eve with everyone?!
Synopsis: At a wild New Year's Eve party, a woman is celebrating with every male individually.
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First Line: Happy New Year!
Synopsis: In the City Morgue, two workers playing cards are startled when one of the bodies sits up and yells "Happy New Year!"
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Depth Perception

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Synopsis: A painter is viewing his flat-chested model through binoculars to get an illusion of depth.
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Feature(s): Vargas
First Line: He only needed one shot for the leopard, but it took most of a fifth to get me.
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First Line: My place or yours?
Synopsis: In the late 19th Century, a man skates with a woman in a group outing on a frozen river.
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First Line: Adultery! My Gawd, Millicent—surely you don't think this young thing is an adult!!
Synopsis: A middle-aged man is found in bed with a teen girl by his wife.
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First Line: That's the very same swashbuckling charm that won my heart over thirty years ago.
Synopsis: A middle-aged man at a party has relieved a woman of her blouse as they sit on a couch at a party. His wife looks on, unconcerned.
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First Line: And when did you first begin to feel that every man you met was trying to look down your dress, Miss Cratzmyer?
Synopsis: A psychiatrist discusses a patient's problem, while doing the same thing himself.
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First Line: For a short and more economical trip, let me suggest my place on the other side of town.
Synopsis: A travel agent suggests an alternative to an attractive buxom young woman.
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First Line: You'll never guess what I forgot for the first time in my twenty years as a gunbearer!
Synopsis: As a rhinoceros charges, a white hunter reaches for his gun, only to find that his gunbearer has forgotten it.
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First Line: May I say, Miss Roswell, that when I hired you, I had no idea that a British secretary could demonstrate such an amazing grasp of American business practices.
Synopsis: A man is in bed with his British secretary.
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First Line: By the way, I took care of the elevator man ...
Synopsis: A man comes home loaded with packages. His wife meets him at the apartment door in a negligee and says she's given the elevator operator his gift.
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First Line: Don't think I haven't noticed how you've been neglecting me this evening, Arnold.
Synopsis: At a party, wife complains that her husband has been spending too much time with other women in the coat room.
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First Line: It's the first real peace I've had in years, what with Mike in jail and all the kids in reform school.
Synopsis: A woman talks about her changed lifestyle over a beer and cigarettes with a woman friend.
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First Line: This is the last time we ever let YOU order the stag movies!
Synopsis: A man makes a mistake and orders an movie about and actual stag instead of the wanted porno movies.
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A Santa on the Beach

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Synopsis: A wealthy man is sunning himself on the beach by his home. He spies an attractive woman approaching and runs inside and returns to his chair dressed as Santa Claus, complete with two martinis.
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First Line: I'd like a word with you, Horowitz.
Synopsis: A man dressed as Santa is ringing a bell for a pot labeled "Give-United Jewish Appeal."
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First Line: New York feels we'd stand a better chance of getting by with Lola's nude scene if, in the end, we have a church fall on here.
Synopsis: California producers try to figure out a way to get a nude scene through.
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First Line: Darling! I just love the way you put Santa Claus back in Christmas!
Synopsis: A woman hugs her sugar daddy in the back of his limousine.
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First Line: I'm not sure what it's all about, but I think the important thing is to give the people the feeling that you're one of them ... !
Synopsis: Peace Corps members in a Latin American country get caught up on the anti-American side of a revolution.
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First Line: I'll be direct, Mr. Larabee—my credits may be insignificant, but my breasts are enormous—
Synopsis: An actress doesn't mince words when talking with a casting director.
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Genres: historical, humorous, war
First Line: At least he died with his boots on.
Synopsis: Two generals look at a headless soldier, with a cannonball nearby.
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First Line: I don't give a damn—it STILL needs nutmeg!
Synopsis: At an office party, a man complains about the punch, even though it's being served out of a bowl with a naked girl in it.
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Animated Fire Hose

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Synopsis: A fireman using a fire hose to fight a fire ends up eaten by it.
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Medicare Is for the Birds

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Synopsis: An optometrist uses an eye chart that tells his political leanings.
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First Line: Do you have any immediate objectives for 1966?
Synopsis: At a New Year's party, a woman asks a man about his objectives, apparently not realizing he has maneuvered her into a spare bedroom.
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First Line: Encore!
Synopsis: A couple are in bed, listening to opera records and doing other things.
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First Line: My other wives don't understand me ...
Synopsis: The Sultan picks three of his wives to tell his troubles to.
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First Line: What kind of story are you two handing me?
Synopsis: A sheep thinks a rooster and a bull are telling him a tall tale.
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First Line: Now, now, Mr. Gladstone ... I'm afraid that's one of our little 'no-no's.' ...
Synopsis: At a brothel, the madam tells a customer that using a cat-o-nine-tails whip on her girls is not allowed.
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Did I?

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Synopsis: A man wakes up with a hangover and the woman in bed with him proceeds to tell him of all the dumb things he did the night before.
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Surprise on the Desert

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Synopsis: In the middle of a vast desert, a man is eating a meal by a fire. Behind him another man is sneaking up from the distance, ready to pop a paper bag behind him.
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First Line: But, Harry, this is no ordinary 'shipboard romance' Ronald's involved with.
Synopsis: Two middle-aged parents talk about the boy their son has become involved with on an ocean cruise.
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First Line: You Jane, me Santa Claus.
Synopsis: A wealthy older man has a gift for his young lady companion.
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First Line: I think Miss Meadows has had a little too much to drink.
Synopsis: A drunken woman at a New Year's Eve party puts a pair of party hats on her breasts.
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First Line: Then, by Jove, a funny, fat little bloke in a red suit scampered up, waving his arms, shouting hysterically ...
Synopsis: A man has eight reindeer heads mounted above his fireplace mantle. It appears he shot Santa's reindeer.
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Battbarton's Holiday Spirit

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Little Anny Fanny; Benton Battbarton; Huck Buxton; Ruthie (cameo)
Synopsis: After he gets drunk at a Christmas party, Annie's boss Benton Battbarton is a kind and generous man. The next day, with an ad deadline bearing down, he reverts back to his usual mean and selfish self.
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Disclose Notes: Pages 256-261. Credits read "by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder with Jack Davis." Title from Kurtzman's records. This story was originally scheduled to run in the December 1964 issue but was bumped in favor of a James Bond parody. Elder drew the principal characters' faces and the full Annie while Davis did all the other characters and backgrounds.

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