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Issue: The Best from Playboy #5
Publication Date: January 1971
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Issues: #5 of 3 Issues
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Publisher: FlagPlayboy Press
Brand: [Rabbit Head]
Indicia Publisher: Playboy Press
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 200
ISBN:
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Price: $2.50 USD
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Content Items: 38 (2 stories, 0 covers)
Editor(s): ? ("the editors of Playboy Magazine")
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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]

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Genres: historical, humorous
First Line: You're really fit for a king!
Synopsis: A king makes a pass at an attractive damsel, who doesn't appear too happy with the attention.
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Reprint Notes: from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) #?
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Genres: historical, humorous
First Line: Bad news, my King ... the Parade of Virgins must be canceled. One is ill ... and the other refuses to march alone.
Synopsis: The ruler of a Central American Indian empire receives some bad news.
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Silverstein on Fire Island

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Penciller(s): ? (photos)
Inker(s): ? (photos)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: adult
Character(s): Shel Silverstein (self-portraits; photos)
Synopsis: Thirteen cartoons and four photos about the gay lifestyle on Fire Island.
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Pages 27-32. Black and white with block overlays of orange or purple.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Uh—Mr. Fitman, would you mind doing your push-ups somewhere else?
Synopsis: At the nudist camp, a man does his pushups in a manner that his head goes up and down beside the breasts of a woman sun-bathing.
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Disclose Notes: Page 49. Part of the "Nudist Camp" series.
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Genres: humorous, jungle
First Line: That's where struggling gets you!
Synopsis: Two white hunters are caught in quicksand in the jungle. One struggles and is up to his nose while the other remains calm and is still out above his waist.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Repeat after me, 'I will not commit adultery again'!
Synopsis: A man spanks his wife after catching her committing adultery. The other man sneaks out, carrying his clothes.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: That's the note I was telling you about!
Synopsis: Two men are at a ringside table at a nightclub when the woman jazz singer hits a high note and breaks the shoulder strap on her dress.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Ever since she was a teeny-weeny baby, she's wanted to be in showbiz!
Synopsis: With her stage mother sitting by, a nude young woman tries to seduce a movie producer sitting at his desk.
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Writer(s): Brian Savage (signed)
Penciller(s): Brian Savage (signed)
Inker(s): Brian Savage (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: The court sentences you to, oh, four and a half years.
Synopsis: A bored judge decides on a prison sentence by looking at the clock, which reads 4:30.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: So where do you spend your afternoons, eh, Julia? It has just come to my attention that women got the vote fifty years ago.
Synopsis: An elderly man wonders what his wife has been up to for the past fifty years.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Looks like old Wingate is out of town again.
Synopsis: A woman at a beachfront house raises a flag with a nude woman on it to indicate her husband is out of town.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: ... But can I be sure that you'll still respect me afterward?
Synopsis: A woman has second thoughts before going to bed with seven men.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Stop that!
Synopsis: A polar bear mother is upset when one of her cubs pretends to be a rug.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Vargas
First Line: I'm not afraid of getting burned—are you?
Synopsis: A girl suns herself on the beach.
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Disclose Notes: Pages 97-98. A fold-out pin-up on heavy matte paper.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Vargas
First Line: Is this what they mean by having a formal affair?
Synopsis: A blond is wearing a man's formal white shirt and holding a bow tie.
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Disclose Notes: Pages 99-100. A fold-out pin-up on heavy paper on the reverse of the previous sequence.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: So you're not Amelia Earhart. We'd still like to take you back with us.
Synopsis: Two explorers find a beautiful nude white woman ruling a remote tribe.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: It must be a trap!
Synopsis: A group of black protesters get an unexpectedly warm welcome to a white neighborhood.
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Genres: fantasy, humorous
Character(s): Three Bears
First Line: Now, wasn't that better than lumpy old porridge?
Synopsis: The Three Bears change the script on the old story by eating Goldilocks.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: It's not so much that I mind your going out every night, if you wouldn't always say that you're just going to the corner for a pack of cigarettes.
Synopsis: A wife is dismayed when her husband goes out for the evening in a full-dress suit and top hat, but makes a flimsy excuse.
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First Line: Now, now, Mr. Gladstone ... I'm afraid that 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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Genres: humorous
First Line: My God—they're heading for the delphiniums!
Synopsis: A couple are sitting in the evening in their backyard when huge luminous caterpillars invade their suburban neighborhood.
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Writer(s): ? [as Weber] (signed)
Penciller(s): ? [as Weber] (signed)
Inker(s): ? [as Weber] (signed)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, religious
First Line: Fool that I was, I simply ASSUMED you couldn't take it with you.
Synopsis: Two angels in heaven watch as a newcomer arrives at the gates with a fancy car, golf clubs and a beautiful woman.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: ...It's your pusher, madam...
Synopsis: A wealthy woman's butler announces the arrival of her drug dealer.
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Satyrs and Nymphs

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Genres: adult
Synopsis: Fifteen painted cartoons involving satyrs and nymphs.
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Disclose Notes: Pages 138-141. A collection of cartoons reprinted from various issues.
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Genres: humorous, jungle
First Line: If their tails are wagging, does it mean they're cross or happy?
Synopsis: Two hunters are hiding behind two elephants and are uncertain what to do next.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Let's see. We've included voyeurism, nudity, homosexuality, and sadism, but I keep feeling we've forgotten something.
Synopsis: Movie producers try to hit all the bases in an exploitation movie.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: You're getting the hang of it, Chiquita, but you're still stomping too hard!
Synopsis: A new female flamenco dancer stomps so hard her panties fall down.
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Symbolic Sex
First Line: Take it off! Take it off!
Synopsis: Nine cartoons using the medical symbols for man and woman.
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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: humorous
First Line: I loved the audition even if I don't get the part.
Synopsis: A woman adjusts her stockings as she gets dressed after an "audition."
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Snow White; Prince
First Line: And then suddenly there were these seven little men and their seven little beds ...
Synopsis: A ravished Snow White tells her story to the Prince.
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[untitled]

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Writer(s): Brian Savage (signed)
Penciller(s): Brian Savage (signed)
Inker(s): Brian Savage (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: The Board of Education requires me to give you some basic information on sex, reproduction and other disgusting filth.
Synopsis: An old school teacher is not happy about teaching sex education.
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[untitled]

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Writer(s): Richard Taylor [as R. Taylor] (signed)
Penciller(s): Richard Taylor [as R. Taylor] (signed)
Inker(s): Richard Taylor [as R. Taylor] (signed)
Colorist(s): Richard Taylor [as R. Taylor] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: humorous
First Line: You're just looking for an excuse to break off our engagement.
Synopsis: At a party, a man finds his fiancee nude in the closet with another man.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Of course, with THAT model, you lay all your cards on the table, so to speak ...
Synopsis: A salesclerk shows a woman a very sheer evening gown.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: For crying out loud! Why CAN'T he have the car keys tonight?
Synopsis: A father is using a chair to fend off his son's attack with a switchblade knife, while the mother tries to calm the situation.
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Genres: humorous, western
First Line: It sure gets lonesome out here on the prairie, don't it?
Synopsis: Two cowboys are camped on a lonely plain. One makes a romantic overture to the other.
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Sleepwalking

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Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A man has insomnia, so he decides to get dressed and go out. When he opens the door of his apartment, he sees an attractive woman sleepwalking down the hall. So he goes back in his apartment and comes back in his pajamas, ready to pretend to sleepwalk to follow the woman.
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Genres: humorous
First Line: You could at least leave me my intermission pianist.
Synopsis: The police bust a bar featuring nude dancers. They even take the rather-plain pianist, who is also nude.
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Pages: 1
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The Ultimate Kick

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Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: adult, erotica, humorous
Character(s): Ralphie Towzer; Annie Fanny; Timothy Clearly [Timothy Leary spoof]
Synopsis: Spoof of 1960s college campuses.
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Disclose Notes: Pages 193-196. Credits read "by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder with Russ Heath and Larry Siegel." Title from Kurtzman's records.

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