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Issue: The Best from Playboy #7
Publication Date: January 1973
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Issues: #7 of 3 Issues
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Publisher: FlagPlayboy Press
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Indicia Publisher: Playboy Press
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 196
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Price: $2.50 USD
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Content Items: 35 (4 stories, 0 covers)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
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Dimensions: 8.125" x 11"
Paper Stock: Heavy Stock cover; Coated White Paper interior
Binding: Perfect Bound
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: historical, humorous
First Line: But my dear fellow—if your eyesight is failing, why don't you purchase a pair of eyeglasses?
Synopsis: A 19th century painter uses his failing eyesight as an excuse to fondle his nude model's body.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: If this is the way I become a star, how did YOU become a star?
Synopsis: A woman in bed in a villa overlooking the ocean asks her movie star bed partner a question.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Er, look, Slim—I don't want to break up a really important relationship ...
Synopsis: A cowboy's horse is upset when a woman enters the picture.
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The Good, the Bad and the Garlic

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Genres: humorous, western
Character(s): The Stranger in the Poncho (as played by Tony Randall) (photos)
Synopsis: A nameless stranger in a poncho comes to clean up Pepperoni, New Mexico, in a parody of spaghetti westerns.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Pages 19-25. Credits read: "Directed by Harvey Kurtzman • Photographed by Mario Casilli • Screenplay by Sol Weinstein and Dick Mathews." A parody of Italian westerns, especially those starring Clint Eastwood as "The Man with No Name."
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: COME, Anthony—or we'll be late for the protest rally!
Synopsis: A gay activist holding a sign reading "Gay Power" can't stop admiring himself in the mirror.
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Reprint Notes: from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) #?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Page 29
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: I guess this pretty well blows your 'sweet sixteen and never been kissed' theory all to hell.
Synopsis: 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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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Hold it—this page is printed upside down.
Synopsis: A woman in bed gets in an awkward position before the man reading a "Guide to Sexual Love" book realizes the page is misprinted.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Guess I'm just a kid at heart, but I still like the clowns.
Synopsis: At a circus, a man reminisces about his youth. Meanwhile the lions are attacking the lion tamer as people look on, horrified.
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Reprint Notes: from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) #?
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Pages: 0.4
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: I'm programming you as a pushover—I hope you won't let me and the computer down ...
Synopsis: The head of the personnel department makes a judgement call on the morals of an attractive young woman he's just hired.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Page 50.
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[untitled]

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Genres: historical, humorous
First Line: I miss the old roaring.
Synopsis: In a Roman coliseum, alligators are let loose in the arena to prey on the prisoners, instead of the traditional lions.
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Reprint Notes: from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series), #?
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Page 51.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: For heaven's sake, Agnes, I'll be happy to discuss a divorce after the game.
Synopsis: A man doesn't want a little thing like a divorce to interrupt his card game.
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Reprint Notes: from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) #?
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Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Page 61.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Well, of course there's no one else, Harry!
Synopsis: One of the girls in the brothel is talking on the telephone to her boyfriend.
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Disclose Notes: Page 62. One of the "Brothel" series.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: You must realize, Mrs. Dennison, that every time you spurn your husband's advances you are, in effect, psychologically emasculating him. And you, Mr. Dennison, should slap her around a little if she pulls that crap again.
Synopsis: A marriage counselor gives a couple some dubious advice.
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Pages: 0.3
Disclose Notes: Page 64.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Well, if you should spot him, give us a call! ... This kind of nut can be a real nuisance.
Synopsis: A policeman is looking for a deranged man in an Automat. Meanwhile a woman is going to get a surprise when she opens a compartment door that a naked man is standing behind.
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Disclose Notes: Page 65. An automat was an urban fast food restaurant where simple foods and drink were served by vending machines with flip-up doors. They died out in the 1970s.
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Artists & Models

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: Cartoons with artists and models as subjects.
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Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Pages 67-69. Ten cartoons, seven with captions and three pantomime. One cartoon is based on "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2," a 1912 painting by Marcel Duchamp.
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Genres: historical, humorous, war
First Line: Ze Kaiser's mistress is flat-chested!
Synopsis: In the middle of a multi-plane World War I dogfight, a French pilot insults a German one.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Pardon me, I'm looking for a consenting adult.
Synopsis: A man at a bar comes up with a new pick-up line when he approaches two women.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: OF COURSE, we spend a lot of time here. How many other parents do you know who take such an interest in their son's work.
Synopsis: A bartender's parents spend too much time at his bar.
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Reprint Notes: from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) #?
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Pages: 0.3
Disclose Notes: Page 96.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Joe, we're trying to get up a stud fee for Gloria ...
Synopsis: A zookeeper is seeking donations for a hippopotamus.
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Shadow Sex

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A man manipulates his hands so they throw a shadow of a couple having sex.
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Disclose Notes: Page 110. A pantomime cartoon.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: She's something of a collector's piece.
Synopsis: A wealthy man shows a visitor into his den, which includes a nude woman as one of his collectibles.
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Reprint Notes: from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) #?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Page 113.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: I don't think you're dying of thirst at all, you dirty old man!
Synopsis: A grizzled old man is chasing a blonde in short dress and high heels across the desert.
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Vargas
First Line: Well, if you're afraid you'll hate yourself in the morning, Mr. Thornton, we can always sleep until noon.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Pages 120-121. Two-page pin-up. Reclining dark blonde with white high heels, white headband, and oversized pop art earrings.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Symbolic Sex
First Line: I don't know much about art, but I know what I like.
Synopsis: Nine cartoons using the medical symbols for man and woman.
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Reprint Notes: from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) #?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Page 126.
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Mirror Image

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A man dressed in flashy mod clothes sits down to watch television. He finds nothing of interest, so he moves the chair in front of a full-length mirror so he can admire himself.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: My God! My husband!
Synopsis: A fat lady in the circus is caught in bed with the human skeleton by the woman's husband, a very short man.
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Eskimo Chastity Belt

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: An Eskimo buys a chastity belt to cover his wife's nose.
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Disclose Notes: Page 141. A pantomime cartoon. Punchline is based on the misconception that Eskimos rub noses instead of kiss.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Good news, everyone! Granny is rallying!
Synopsis: The "Dirty Old Lady" is sick, but is well enough to grab the doctor's head and force it into her bosom.
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Disclose Notes: Page 150. Part of the "Dirty Old Lady" series.
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Have a Heart

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Genres: humorous, science and technology
Synopsis: Ten cartoons dealing with various aspects of hospitals and transplant surgery.
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Pages 154-157.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Ordinarily, I don't trust people over thirty.
Synopsis: An older, but still attractive woman lures a guitar-playing young man into her bed.
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Reprint Notes: from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) #?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Page 161.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
First Line: But I don't think the Harrisons HAVE a sauna bath.
Synopsis: a suburban couple watch as the couple next door race naked around their house, with the husband swatting the woman with birch branches, to her apparent delight.
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Heartline

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A woman talks about an obscene phone call she received.
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Reprint Notes: from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) #?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Page 167. A six-panel comic story.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: historical, humorous
First Line: My balls are killing me.
Synopsis: 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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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
First Line: My parents would die if they knew I was involved with a rhinoceros.
Synopsis: A woman is in love with a rhinoceros.
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Pages: 0.33
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Nudist Therapy

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Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Annie Fanny; Wanda Homefree; Whistler's mother (cameo); Dick Tracy (cameo); Jiggs (cameo)
Synopsis: Spoof of nude therapy workshops.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Pages 188-192. Credits read "by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder." Title from Kurtzman's records.

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