Playboy comic books issue 1

MATURE READERS. The special issue that started it all, Playboy Issue #1, December 1953, featuring the immortal Marilyn Monroe's infamous first nude spread as the "Sweetheart of the Month" (a designation that would evolve into "Playmate of the Month"). Text contributions by Norman Holland, Bob Norman, William March, and Ambrose Bierce. Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey article. Cover price $0.50.

MATURE READERS. Yvonne Menard cover. Articles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Erskine Caldwell, and Julien Dedman. Marilyn Waltz (as Margaret Scott) centerfold. Cover price $0.50.

MATURE READERS. Neva Gilbert centerfold, Simone Silva and "The Evolution of the Bathing Suit" pictorial features. Text by Jay Arnold, William Hope Hodgson, Shepherd Mead, and Thomas Mario. Cover price $0.50.

MATURE READERS. Cover by Yvette Dare. "The Flying Machine" by Ray Bradbury. Ray Russell, James H. Lavely, Robert C. Ruark & Thomas Mario articles. Street Scenes cartoons by Hef (Hugh Hefner). Arline Hunter centerfold. Cover price $0.50.

MATURE READERS. Cover by Art Paul. Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida pictorial. "Hope on Golf" by Bob Hope. Charles Beaumont, Carl Wilson, Thomas Mario & Harry C. Crosby articles. "Embarrassed People" cartoons by William Steig. Jackie Rainbow centerfold. Cover price $0.50.

Add to cart VG- 3.5 $9.50 View scan 1 1/2" spine split from top.

Add to cart GD/VG 3.0 $9.30

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Volume 1 -1964. "Very Late in the Evening" by Ray Bradbury, "Trouble in Makeousville" by Herbert Gold, "Chaplin" by Charles Beaumont, "The Right Approach" by P.G. Wodehouse. Jules Feiffer's "The Oddball" a six-page color comic story. Interview with Miles Davis. Complete Jayne Mansfield. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 192 pages, full color. MATURE READERS Cover price $2.50.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Edited by Hugh Hefner. Collection of the best cartoons to be featured in the legendary Playboy magazine. Includes more than 320 cartoons! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 192 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers Cover price $2.00.

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Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. NOTE: Covers on reprints may vary. Edited by Hugh Hefner. Collection of the best cartoons to be featured in the legendary Playboy magazine. Includes more than 320 cartoons! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 192 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers Cover price $2.50.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "1962-1970!" By Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. Dark Horse Comics and Playboy Enterprises are proud to present for the first time ever the more than 400 pages of the late, great Harvey Kurtzman's Little Annie Fanny, collected in two deluxe volumes. Kurtzman, creator of Mad magazine and godfather of underground comix, teamed with longtime E.C. Comics collaborator Will Elder (and sometimes Frank Frazetta, Russ Heath, and Jack Davis!) to create a Playboy icon second only to the bunny and a risqué comics icon second to none! Each volume showcases over 200 pages of stunningly rendered stories from the sexy strip's 25-year run. Trend setting in its use of color, irreverent in its satirical look at the changing face of America, and a masterpiece of technique, this definitive collection of one of world's most controversial comic strips is long overdue. This first volume takes us through the swinging Sixties with the Beatles, Civil Rights, and the beginning of the Sexual Revolution. Also included, a detailed behind-the-scenes look at the strip's creative process, featuring never-before-seen art and preliminary drawings! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 224 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $24.95.

Volume 1 - 2nd and later printings. "1962-1970!" By Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. Dark Horse Comics and Playboy Enterprises are proud to present for the first time ever the more than 400 pages of the late, great Harvey Kurtzman's Little Annie Fanny, collected in two deluxe volumes. Kurtzman, creator of Mad magazine and godfather of underground comix, teamed with longtime E.C. Comics collaborator Will Elder (and sometimes Frank Frazetta, Russ Heath, and Jack Davis!) to create a Playboy icon second only to the bunny and a risqué comics icon second to none! Each volume showcases over 200 pages of stunningly rendered stories from the sexy strip's 25-year run. Trend setting in its use of color, irreverent in its satirical look at the changing face of America, and a masterpiece of technique, this definitive collection of one of world's most controversial comic strips is long overdue. This first volume takes us through the swinging Sixties with the Beatles, Civil Rights, and the beginning of the Sexual Revolution. Also included, a detailed behind-the-scenes look at the strip's creative process, featuring never-before-seen art and preliminary drawings! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 224 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $24.95.

First Printing. 1972. Collection of Alden Erikson's cartoons published in Playboy. Softcover. 8.25" x 11". 160 pages. Partial color, partial B&W. Cover price $2.50.

New Improved Edition - 1st printing. Written by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. Art by Kurtzman and Elder. Ever since bursting onto the scene (and out of her sweater) in October 1962, Little Annie Fanny has been a fan favorite of Playboy readers. This collection of some her funniest stories will leave you in stitches, as Little Annie takes your breathe away! With 30 extra pages! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, full color. MATURE READERS Cover price $2.50.

First Printing. 1971. Collection of Phil Interlandi's cartoons published in Playboy. Softcover. 8.25" x 11". 160 pages. Partial color, partial B&W. Cover price $2.50.

The Playboy: A Comic Book by Chester Brown - 1st printing. Story and art by Chester Brown. A journey and tale of self discovery told from a very personal point of view. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 172 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $12.95.

Volume 1, 1st Printing - A selection of the most sophisticated, entertaining stories, cartoons, jokes, articles and humor from Playboy Magazine with an exclusive introduction by Hugh M. Hefner. Edited by Hugh M. Hefner. Hardcover, 8.5" x 11", 128 pages, Color. Cover price $3.75.

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1st printing. More than 280 cartoons - 145 in full color - from Playboy's mirthful Master of the Macabre - Gahan Wilson. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 160 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $2.50.

First Printing. 1970. Collection of John Dempsey's cartoons published in Playboy. Softcover. 8.25" x 11". 160 pages. Partial color, partial B&W. Cover price $2.50.

2nd Edition - 1st printing. By Chester Brown. The Playboy is a memoir about Brown's adolescence, sexuality, and shame that chronicles his teenage obsession with the magazine of the same name. Exploring the physical form of comics to its fullest storytelling capacity, a fifteen year-old Chester is visited by a time-traveling adult Chester, and the latter narrates the former's compulsion to purchase each issue of Playboy as it appears on newsstands. Even more fascinating than his obsession with the magazine is Brown's need to keep this habit secret, and the great lengths to which he goes to avoid detection by, at first, his family, and then, later, by girlfriends. Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 7 1/2-in., 176 pages, B&W. MATURE READERS Cover price $16.95.

1st printing. The scintillating cartoon works of Doug Sneyd, an artist for Playboy magazine since the early 1960s, return to print in this stunning softcover art book. Readers will be charmed by these most deliciously hilarious of Doug's full-page cartoons featuring the lovely Sneyd girls and the one-line jokes they so ably illustrate! Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 248 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

1st printing. "An Orgy of Playboy's Eldon Dedini!" Eldon Dedini has been one of Playboy's most recognizable full-page gag cartoonists. With a masterful watercolor technique that burlesques a broad range of subjects, from East and West Coast urban and suburban adult-hipster to classical Japanese erotic prints, Dedini's most personal cartoons rely on mythology and legend. They evoke a bucolic sexually-liberated paradise that leaves his readers lingering over the imagery long after the gag registers. The Art of Playboy's Eldon Dedini is the first retrospective collection of his work, and gathers in one volume the most sophisticated, elegant, and funny gag panels of the past six decades. Hardcover, 8 3/4-in. X 11 1/2-in., 242 pages, full color (some B&W). MATURE READERS Cover price $39.95.

1st printing. By Wendy and Richard Pini. The Holt was forest haven for persecuted elves - wanderers from another world - until it was invaded and destroyed. Now a small band of Wolfriders searches for some spot of land not contaminated by humans - some place where legends say other elves live in peace. If there are any other surviving elves... Thus begins the Elfquest! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 320 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $5.95.

1st printing - 3 Volumes (with Slipcase). OVER ONE THOUSAND CARTOONS SPANNING 50 YEARS OF A LEGENDARY CAREER! Fifty-one, to be exact, but let's not quibble. Gahan Wilson is among the most popular, widely-read, and beloved cartoonists in the history of the medium, whose career spans the 2nd half of the 20th century, and all of the 21st. His work has been seen by millions -no, hundreds of millions- in the pages of Playboy, The New Yorker, Punch, The National Lampoon, and many other magazines; there is no telling, really, how many readers he has corrupted or comforted. He is revered for his playfully sinister take on childhood, adulthood, men, women, and monsters. His brand of humor makes you laugh until you cry. And it's about time that a collection of his cartoons was published that did justice to his vast body of work. When Gahan Wilson walked into Hugh Hefner's office in 1957, he sat down as Hefner was on the phone, gently rejecting a submission to his new gentlemen's magazine: "I think it's very well-written and I liked it very much," Hefner reportedly said, "but it's anti-sin. And I'm afraid we're pro-sin." Wilson knew, at that moment, that he had found a kindred spirit and a potential home for his cartoons. And indeed he had; Wilson appeared in every issue of Playboy from the December 1957 issue to today. It has been one of the most fruitful, successful, and long-lived relationships between a contributor and a magazine, ever. Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons features not only every cartoon Wilson drew for Playboy, but all his prose fiction that has appeared in that magazine as well, from his first story in the June, 1962 issue, "Horror Trio," to such classics as "Dracula Country" (September 1978). It also includes the text-and-art features he drew for Playboy, such as his look at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, his take on our country's "pathology of violence," and his appreciation of "transplant surgery." Wilson's notoriously black sense of comedy is on display throughout the book, leaving no sacred cow unturned (an image curiously absent in the book), ridiculing everything from state sponsored executions to the sober precincts of the nouveau rich, from teenage dating to police line-ups, with scalding and hilarious satirical jabs. Although Wilson is known as an artist who relishes the creepy side of modern life, this three-volume set truly demonstrates the depth and breadth of his range - from illustrating private angst we never knew we had (when you eat a steak, just whom are you eating?) to the ironic and deadpan take on horrifying public issues (ecological disaster, nuclear destruction anyone?). Gahan Wilson has been peeling back the troubling layers of modern life with his incongruously playful and unnerving cartoons, assailing our deepest fears and our most inane follies. This three-volume set is a testament to one of the funniest - and wickedly disturbing - cartoonists alive. GAHAN WILSON was born in 1930 in Evanston, IL and lives in New York City. Hardcover (3 Volumes with Slipcase), 8-in. x 10 1/2-in., 1,056 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $125.00.

1st printing. NOTE: The Limited Edition (B) includes a signed and numbered, two-color letterpress print and a box set of reproduction Christmas illustrations sent from Gahan Wilson to Hugh Hefner. Limited to 300 copies - OVER ONE THOUSAND CARTOONS SPANNING 50 YEARS OF A LEGENDARY CAREER! Fifty-one, to be exact, but let's not quibble. Gahan Wilson is among the most popular, widely-read, and beloved cartoonists in the history of the medium, whose career spans the 2nd half of the 20th century, and all of the 21st. His work has been seen by millions -no, hundreds of millions- in the pages of Playboy, The New Yorker, Punch, The National Lampoon, and many other magazines; there is no telling, really, how many readers he has corrupted or comforted. He is revered for his playfully sinister take on childhood, adulthood, men, women, and monsters. His brand of humor makes you laugh until you cry. And it's about time that a collection of his cartoons was published that did justice to his vast body of work. When Gahan Wilson walked into Hugh Hefner's office in 1957, he sat down as Hefner was on the phone, gently rejecting a submission to his new gentlemen's magazine: "I think it's very well-written and I liked it very much," Hefner reportedly said, "but it's anti-sin. And I'm afraid we're pro-sin." Wilson knew, at that moment, that he had found a kindred spirit and a potential home for his cartoons. And indeed he had; Wilson appeared in every issue of Playboy from the December 1957 issue to today. It has been one of the most fruitful, successful, and long-lived relationships between a contributor and a magazine, ever. Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons features not only every cartoon Wilson drew for Playboy, but all his prose fiction that has appeared in that magazine as well, from his first story in the June, 1962 issue, "Horror Trio," to such classics as "Dracula Country" (September 1978). It also includes the text-and-art features he drew for Playboy, such as his look at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, his take on our country's "pathology of violence," and his appreciation of "transplant surgery." Wilson's notoriously black sense of comedy is on display throughout the book, leaving no sacred cow unturned (an image curiously absent in the book), ridiculing everything from state sponsored executions to the sober precincts of the nouveau rich, from teenage dating to police line-ups, with scalding and hilarious satirical jabs. Although Wilson is known as an artist who relishes the creepy side of modern life, this three-volume set truly demonstrates the depth and breadth of his range - from illustrating private angst we never knew we had (when you eat a steak, just whom are you eating?) to the ironic and deadpan take on horrifying public issues (ecological disaster, nuclear destruction anyone?). Gahan Wilson has been peeling back the troubling layers of modern life with his incongruously playful and unnerving cartoons, assailing our deepest fears and our most inane follies. This three-volume set is a testament to one of the funniest - and wickedly disturbing - cartoonists alive. GAHAN WILSON was born in 1930 in Evanston, IL and lives in New York City. Hardcover, 1,056 pages, B&W. Mature Readers NOTE: The Limited Edition (B) includes a signed and numbered, two-color letterpress print and a box set of reproduction Christmas illustrations sent from Gahan Wilson to Hugh Hefner. Limited to 300 copies Cover price $175.00.

1956. Group of eight different cocktail napkins illustrated by Jack Cole (Plastic Man). Soft paper with embossed designed. Published by Playboy. Each measures 4.5" x 4.5". Black and white.

This 60 year Anniversary edition of the very first issue of Playboy magazine is an exact replica down to the paper stock and staples. Featuring Marilyn Monroe Cover and interior photos, a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, articles, and cartoons. 44 Pages, BW&FC Cover price $0.50.

1st printing.

Story and art by Chester Brown.

A journey and tale of self discovery told from a very personal point of view.

Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 172 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Signed by Chester Brown

1st printing.

Story and art by Chester Brown.

A journey and tale of self discovery told from a very personal point of view.

Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 172 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

1st printing. Edited by Alice K. Turner. Cover by Elliot Beard. The stories assembled here provide a glittering array of science fiction at its uncensored best, from the Golden Age to the New Wave, from Cyberpunk to Virtual Sex. Featuring 25 tales tales from Stephen King, Arthur C. Clark, Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Lucius Shepard, Howard Waldrop, Donald E. Westlake, Doris Lessing, Billy Crystal, and more! Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 470 pages, Text Only. Cover price $16.00.

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1st printing. Edited by Hugh Hefner. Collection of the best cartoons to be featured in the legendary Playboy magazine. Illustrators include: Gahan Wilson, Charles W. Miller, Jack Cole (Plastic Man), Jack Davis, and more. Includes 650 cartoons, more than 60 in full color! Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 192 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers Cover price $4.95.

1st printing.

With the first centerfold image of the radiant Marilyn Monroe, Hugh M. Hefner masterminded a cultural icon: Playboy's Playmate of the Month. This voluptuous new edition celebrates every nude centerfold from every issue of Playboy, from 1953 to February 2016.

Initially published a decade ago, and now comprehensively updated, this must-have edition boasts 734 nude centerfolds and decade openers from literary luminaries, including an all-new essay by Elizabeth Wurtzel on the last decade of centerfolds, and a redesigned package that perfectly captures the complete cultural and aesthetic arc of the Playboy centerfold.

Hardcover, 8-in. x 13-in., 844 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Cover price $75.00.

First Printing. 1981. Collection of Buck Brown's cartoons published in Playboy. Softcover. 8.25" x 11". 128 pages. Primarily color with a few cartoons in B&W. Cover price $3.95.

Softcover, 8" x 10 3/4", 112 pages, full color, Adults Only. Cover price $5.95.

1st printing. By Cole. A collection of cartoons from Playboy artist - Cole. Softcover, 6-in. x 8-in., 80 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $1.00.

1st printing. By Damon Brown. Foreword by Pamela Anderson. "I only read it for the articles." Few modern punch lines (and lies!) are as iconic as this one. But humor and good writing aside, the true allure of Playboy are the magazine's spectacular cover images. Now Hugh Hefner has chosen 200 of Playboy's breathtaking, innovative covers for this lush retrospective, digitally reproduced and in color. Acclaimed author and long-time Playboy writer Damon Brown explores how the magazine's newsstand decisions made an indelible impact on American culture. Hardcover, 9 1/2-in. x 12 1/2-in., 320 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $35.00.

First Printing - 1971. Collection of Playboy Christmas related articles and pictorials. 8.5" x 11", 192 pages, full color. MATURE Cover price $2.50.

Later Printing - 1971. Collection of Playboy Christmas related articles and pictorials. 8.5" x 11", 192 pages, full color. MATURE Cover price $2.50.

1st printing.

Written by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. Art by Kurtzman and Elder.

Ever since bursting onto the scene (and out of her sweater) in October 1962, Little Annie Fanny has been a fan favorite of Playboy readers. This collection of some her funniest stories will leave you in stitches, as Little Annie takes your breathe away!

Hardcover, 10 1/2-in. x 13 1/2-in., 128 pages, full color. Mature Readers

Cover price $4.95.

1st Edition - 1st printing.

Written by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. Art by Kurtzman and Elder.

Ever since bursting onto the scene (and out of her sweater) in October 1962, Little Annie Fanny has been a fan favorite of Playboy readers. This collection of some her funniest stories will leave you in stitches, as Little Annie takes your breathe away!

Softcover, 10 1/2-in. x 13 1/2-in., 128 pages, full color. MATURE READERS

Cover price $2.50.