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Issue: Playboy #4
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Publisher: FlagPlayboy
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Indicia Publisher: HMH Publishing Co. Inc.
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Volume: 16
Pages: 270
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UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.00 USD
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Content Items: 41 (3 stories, 0 covers)
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Disclose Notes: Profile of caricaturist David Levine (text and photo) on Page 170.
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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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Keynote

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Hazel
Hazel is sitting in a doctor's waiting room, looking at the fold-out of a Playboy magazine.
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Page 24. Original cartoon by Ted Key to go with his letter in the "Dear Playboy" column commenting on a P. G. Wodehouse story in a previous issue.
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Keep Your Cool

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A boy is sitting in a lion's mouth, reading the Cliff's Notes version of Moby Dick.
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Page 62. Cartoon illustrating an ad for Cliff's Notes.
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I want to thank you for a lovely evening, but first I'd better check the bedroom to see if my roommate is still thanking HER date.
A young woman brings her date back to her apartment.
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There's that terrific arrangement I was telling you about.
At a night club, members of a jazz band comment on the beautiful woman walking in with a wealthy old man.
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Page 105.
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If this wasn't the Renaissance, Giovanni, you'd be just another dirty old man.
A Renaissance painter's nude model comments on his craft.
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Page 119.
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Vargas
Mr. Wilson, I think you've discovered a delightful way to bridge the generation gap.
A mostly-nude girl with fringed boots and vest and a headband with a feather.
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Pages 124-125. Two-page pin-up.
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Please, Mr. McTavish! You don't have to tell all New York!
A man celebrates a conquest by playing the bagpipes.
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I think you would be well advised to locate the new delphinium bed elsewhere, Hobbs.
The elderly owner of a house advises her gardener to dig elsewhere when he uncovers a skeleton.
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The Old West may be dead, but not some of you old Westerners.
A woman at a dude ranch has a romantic interlude with an older cowboy in a hayloft.
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Sheer Pleasure

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A woman in a dress that is sheer to the waist sees another woman in the same dress, but it is sheer much past the waist.
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Page 169. A pantomime cartoon.
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You expect more from Standard—and you get it!
While a service station attendance cleans the windshield a nude woman joins a man in the front seat of his convertible.
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Page 178. "You expect more from Standard—and you get it" was a tagline for commercials for Standard Oil service stations.
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No one denies that he had the right to hold dissident views. On the other hand, it was a drag having him around.
In an apparent Eastern European country, a general talks to a bystander after a firing squad has shot a dissident.
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No Smoking at Draft Board

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Two young men are registering at the Draft Board office. A sign on the wall warns "No Smoking. Violators subject to reclassification."
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Page 184.
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It was awfully nice making your acqaintance!
A girl in the brothel helps a customer with his coat.
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Page 187. Part of "Brothel" series.
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Then there was another little oddity that caught our eye. You claim to have two wives, both over sixty-five and blind.
An auditor in an Internal Revenue office finds some problems with a man's income tax return.
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Page 189.
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I wanted to buy a filthy, shocking button to flout the hypocritical values of our degenerate society, but the salesclerk was a lady.
A college boy goes into a "head shop" to buy a shocking button, but is too shy to buy one from a woman.
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In one easy operation, you dial the correct postage and print your crackpot slogan directly on the envelope.
A man tries to sell a postage meter to the editor of a far right-wing newsletter.
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Page 194.
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Bags to Mortuary

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A delivery man brings a load of "handy-bags" to a mortuary.
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Page 197. A pantomime cartoon.
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Newcomers are always so surprised when they find that the suburbs really swing.
Nude couples sit on the floor of the living room of a suburban house.
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Daughter's First Date

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Parents let their imaginations run wild when a perfectly respectable young man comes to go on a date with their daughter.
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Page 203. Six-panel pantomime story.
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Golly! Decisions, decisions!
Two girls are standing on a pier. On one side are two handsome young men in a small motorboat. On the other side is an extravagant yacht with two old, but wealthy men.
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Missing Person

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A human pyramid reports to the Missing Persons Bureau when one of the acrobats is missing.
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Page 208. A pantomime cartoon.
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You're not serious, I hope.
A peacock puts on a display of a huge tail fan.
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Last night Jerome said he loved me and he wasn't on pills or ANYTHING!!
Two young women exit a cafe and one talks about her boyfriend.
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Page 212. Artist signature is not legible.
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George, just because I LOOK like a prostitute, DRESS like a prostitute, and TALK like a prostitute doesn't mean I can make LOVE like a prostitute.
A woman doesn't live up to a man's expectations in bed.
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We should have barricaded ourselves in the cafeteria instead of the administration building! I'm starved!
After taking over a college administration building, the demonstrators are hungry.
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Boy, for the Now Generation, you're sure full of a lot of 'Not nows.'
A boy's girlfriend is a tease.
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If this is the way I become a star, how did YOU become a star?
A woman in bed in a villa overlooking the ocean asks her movie star bed partner a question.
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Of course I'll marry you, Harold ... I thought you'd never ask.
A woman with a toddler, a babe in arms, and a baby carriage decides to accept the (apparent) father's marriage proposal.
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First, mademoiselle, I'd like to say there's been a lot of loose talk about 'American know-how' ...
An American tourist is a bit apprehensive about going to bed with a Parisian woman.
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Page 231. Eiffel Tower in view through the window.
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Please be careful today, Harcourt. The 'I Ching' says 'The dragon's tail will whip the surging winds.'
An executive's wife gives him his day's fortune as he leaves the mansion to get in his limousine.
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It's all right ... we're married!
A waiter looks askance at a woman who is on her knees under a table, but the man assures him they are married.
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There's a vibration at Mach two that's curdling all of our table wines.
A pilot and stewardess go to a plane designer with a complaint.
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Gold? Right now, I'd be happy if I could just find my donkey.
Two prospectors meet. One is more anxious to find his donkey than to find gold.
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No, no, don't get up; just make yourself at home.
Parents come home early to find their daughter and her date making out on the couch.
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That's the toughest hazard on the course, and that's her husband with her.
Two men in a golf cart talk about an attractive blonde.
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Do I believe in Original Sin? It depends—how original do you want to be?
A man making small talk on a couch at a party, gets a suggestive answer from the attractive blonde sitting with him.
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Phil, I'd like you to meet Brian. Brian will be posing for the picture on the jacket of your new novel.
A publisher decides a writer needs a stand-in on the jacket of his novel, someone with a rugged look, tweed jacket, and smoking a pipe.
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Never Too Far from the Narcs

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A man stranded on a desert island finds that the foliage is (apparently) marijuana. As he gets ready to light up, a raft with a policeman washes up on the island.
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Page 257. A nine-panel pantomime story.
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I'd refuse to pay that portion of my taxes that goes to pay for war, too, but, unfortunately, I'm one of those millionaires who manage not to pay ANY income tax.
Two men make small talk at a party.
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Annie the Actress

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Annie Fanny; Richard Luster [Richard Lester spoof]; Solly Brass
Spoof of film sex scenes.
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Pages 262-265. Credits read "by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder with Larry Siegel." Title from Kurtzman's records.

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