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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: 13
Pages: 228
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 USD
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Content Items: 41 (2 stories, 0 covers)
Editor(s): Hugh M. Hefner (editor, publisher); A. C. Spectorsky (associate publisher, editorial director)
Disclose Notes: Small reprint of Alberto Vargas pin-up and cover from March 1965 issue on page 131 as part of an article spotlighting a dozen Playboy 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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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
Charles, I think you're an absolute CAD to take it like this!
When a man catches his wife in bed with another man, he brings enough drinks for all of them.
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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
Well, did you see my lips move?
A woman ventriloquist shows her gimmick to a booking agent; she preforms topless.
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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
Oh, Mr. Thorndyke, you SHOULDN'T have!
A woman is overjoyed when a man commits a robbery and brings her a satchel full of money.
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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
historical, humorous
How about THAT for an invention?!
A caveman invents sex.
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E. Simms Campbell (signed)
E. Simms Campbell (signed)
E. Simms Campbell (signed)
E. Simms Campbell (signed)
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humorous
Hey, Mr. Dabien! You promised THAT part to ME!
An actress finds someone else on a director's casting couch.
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Dink Siegel (signed)
Dink Siegel (signed)
Dink Siegel (signed)
Dink Siegel (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Well, shall we continue where we left off ... ?
When an ocean liner sinks, a man and woman are together on a floating mattress.
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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
Sending a dozen roses was my boyfriend's idea, but delivering one at a time was the florist's.
A blonde girl in an open white robe and white high heels, holding one long-stemmed rose.
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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
I don't believe I've told you about my tattoo, have I, George?
Apparent newlyweds are getting undressed for bed, when the wife casually mentions a tattoo—of a heart and name of a previous lover on her buttock.
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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
It figures.
Two scientists look at a large blackboard covered with a huge intricate equation.
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White Rock Girl

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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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humorous
Psyche; Neptune
The topless White Rock girl (Psyche) looks longingly into a pool. Then Neptune brings her the top of her outfit.
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Page 163. A two-panel pantomime cartoon. The basic pose comes from the logo for White Rock Beverage Co., first used in 1894. That in turn was taken from a painting named "Psyche at Nature's Mirror" by German artist Paul Thumann.
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Brian Savage (signed)
Brian Savage (signed)
Brian Savage (signed)
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humorous
Harry's not having much luck with his 'Step outside for a cigarette and a breath of fresh air' routine tonight.
A man's pick-up line at a party doesn't work well on a rainy night.
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Left Turn and Circus

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Howard Shoemaker [as Shoemaker] (signed)
Howard Shoemaker [as Shoemaker] (signed)
Howard Shoemaker [as Shoemaker] (signed)
Subject Matter
humorous
A man in a Volkswagen puts his arm out to signal a left turn. A circus truck goes by in the opposite direction and after it passes there is a lion's head sticking through the bars and the man's hand is gone.
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Page 169. A two-panel pantomime comic story.
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Claude Smith [as Claude] (signed)
Claude Smith [as Claude] (signed)
Claude Smith [as Claude] (signed)
Claude Smith [as Claude] (signed)
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humorous
Have a good evening at home, sweetie!
A secretary gives an affectionate send-off to her boss as he heads for the elevators on his way home.
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Donald Reilly (signed)
Donald Reilly (signed)
Donald Reilly (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Another stagestruck kid who thinks she's got what it takes to make a star, eh? Well, Miss Pomeroy, I'm going to give you a chance to prove it ...
A young would-be actress is in a director's office. The director presses a button which lowers a bed out of the wall.
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Explosive Painting

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? [as Duvall] (signed)
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humorous
A painter lines up canvases around a stack of paint cans which has a bundle of dynamite under them, with a fuse burning.
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Page 178. A pantomime cartoon.
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Brian Savage (signed)
Brian Savage (signed)
Brian Savage (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Hello, there. I've been wanting to meet you all evening.
A man wants to meet an attractive woman at a party, even if he has to drag his wife, who's clinging to his ankle, along with him.
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Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
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humorous
You're next, four-eyes!
A nurse in an optometrist's office insults a patient.
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Page 181. "Four-eyes" was an old slang term for someone who wore glasses.
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? [as R. Hansen] (signed)
? [as R. Hansen] (signed)
? [as R. Hansen] (signed)
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fantasy, humorous
If behooves me, fair maiden, to ask one question, BEFORE I do battle.
A knight wants to make sure there is some reward for him for rescuing a damsel in distress.
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Donald Reilly (signed)
Donald Reilly (signed)
Donald Reilly (signed)
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humorous
Maybe THIS will knock some sense into you!
An impatient psychiatrist hits his patient on the head with his fist.
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Dana Fradon [as D. Fradon] (signed)
Dana Fradon [as D. Fradon] (signed)
Dana Fradon [as D. Fradon] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
MR. HALLOCK!
A man and a woman on a safari are sinking up to their necks in quicksand. Apparently the man has made an inappropriate move under the sand.
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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
It's a real adult script, J. B.—boy meets girl, girl leaves boy, boy meets boy.
A writer pitches a script with a twist on an old plot.
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Tresspassers Will Be Experimented Upon

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Gahan Wilson (signed)
Gahan Wilson (signed)
Gahan Wilson (signed)
Gahan Wilson (signed)
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humorous
A boy on a bicycle reads a sign on the outlying wall at Crile Research Foundation that says "Tresspassers Will Be Experimented Upon."
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Page 189. Pantomime cartoon. "Trespassers" is misspelled.
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? [as B. Brown] (signed)
? [as B. Brown] (signed)
? [as B. Brown] (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Like it, Mr. Bigelow? A Japanese outfit will deliver them to us for only $6.75 a thousand.
A man shows his boss a "Buy American" sign, which he can have manufactured cheaply in Japan.
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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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Subject Matter
humorous
Pleased to meet you. Any roommate of Marilyn's is a roommate of mine.
A man is introduced to his date's roommate.
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Brian Savage (signed)
Brian Savage (signed)
Brian Savage (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
The meeting was called to order by the chairman. For two hours everyone compromised his personal integrity. A motion was made and seconded to adjourn the meeting. The meeting was adjourned.
A secretary gives a short, but brutally honest summary of the previous meeting.
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John Dempsey (signed)
John Dempsey (signed)
John Dempsey (signed)
John Dempsey (signed)
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humorous
Personally, I don't care that much for the sun. I just like to run around naked.
A man at the nudist camp explains his reasons for being there.
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Page 198. Part of the "Nudist Camp" series.
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Brian Savage (signed)
Brian Savage (signed)
Brian Savage (signed)
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Subject Matter
humorous
What really bothers me is that we're living way beyond our means.
A couple are living in a run-down, sparsely-furnished apartment, but it's still more than they can afford.
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Claude Smith [as Claude] (signed)
Claude Smith [as Claude] (signed)
Claude Smith [as Claude] (signed)
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humorous
They decided not to wait.
A marriage counselor walks into his office to find the waiting room a shambles and his secretary cowering behind her desk.
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Sylvia Getzler (signed)
Sylvia Getzler (signed)
Sylvia Getzler (signed)
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humorous
Thanks anyway, Emma. I'll grab something downtown.
A middle-aged man declines his wife's offer of a good-bye kiss.
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Edward Frascino [as Frascino]
Edward Frascino [as Frascino]
Edward Frascino [as Frascino]
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humorous
Please don't make love to me, Mr. Claypool! I'm accident prone!
A woman fends off a man's advances.
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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
Have you noticed, Felicia, the extremely low caliber of people one meets at these wife-swapping parties lately.
A man isn't happy with his choices at a wife-swapping party.
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Joseph Farris [as JG Farris] (signed)
Joseph Farris [as JG Farris] (signed)
Joseph Farris [as JG Farris] (signed)
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humorous
One of the first things you've got to learn here is to chew your food well.
Two men are in a dungeon, with iron rings clamped around their necks.
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Highway Confusion

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Glenn Zulauf (signed)
Glenn Zulauf (signed)
Glenn Zulauf (signed)
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humorous
A man in a convertible faces a confusing array of overpasses and the highway sign just has a question mark on it.
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Page 208. A pantomime cartoon.
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Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
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humorous
Take an indecent proposal ...
An executive makes an advance to his secretary.
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Dennis Kennedy [as Kennedy] (signed)
Dennis Kennedy [as Kennedy] (signed)
Dennis Kennedy [as Kennedy] (signed)
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humorous
Up to your old tricks again, huh?
A wife surprises her magician husband cuddling with a showgirl in his dressing room.
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Whistler's White Girl

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Jim Beamon (credited)
Jim Beamon (credited, painting)
Jim Beamon (credited, painting)
Jim Beamon (credited, painting)
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humorous
The Playboy Art Gallery
A parody of James Abbott McNeill Whistler's 1862 painting of a girl in white, though in this one she's bald and holding a wig in her hand instead of a white lily
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?
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?
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humorous
I always said there was a lot more to Aunt Martha than met the eye.
At a reading of a will, relatives see a sophisticated gentlemen also there, who they knew nothing about.
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John Ruge [as Ruge] (signed)
John Ruge [as Ruge] (signed)
John Ruge [as Ruge] (signed)
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humorous
Y'know who I'd like to have here right now? The feller who wrote 'He don't say nothin, he don't DO nothin', he jes' keeps rolling along!
People are stranded on the roofs of their houses in the midst of a disastrous flood. One makes a sarcastic comment about the situation.
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Page 217. Punchline contains lyrics from Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's song "Ol' Man River" from the 1927 musical "Show Boat."
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?
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humorous
Peanuts!
A peanut vendor is hawking peanuts, while an elephant lurks around the corner.
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?
Don Lewis (signed) (painting)
Don Lewis (signed) (painting)
Don Lewis (signed) (painting)
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humorous
That nice Mr. Burton said I have curves in places where other girls don't even have places.
A Playboy bunny getting into her gold bunny outfit talks to another bunny clad just in hose.
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Art Krusz (signed)
Art Krusz (signed)
Art Krusz (signed)
Art Krusz (signed)
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humorous
Would it make you feel better if I put the top up?
A girl is reluctant to get romantic in a convertible parked with a view of Mt. Rushmore in plain sight.
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