Playboy
#v13#8
(August 1966)
Playboy,
1953 Series
- Volume
- 13
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 184
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- HMH Publishing Co. Inc.
- Editing
- Hugh M. Hefner (editor, publisher); A. C. Spectorsky (associate publisher, editorial director)
Issue Notes
"The History of Sex in Cinema— Part Nine: The Forties" article has three illustrations of the female centaurs from "Fantasia", two uncensored with bare breasts and one censored, on page 124.
The individual issues of this series are each less than 50% comics. Only comics sequences are indexed and cover scans are accepted only if the issue has 10% indexed comics content.
[Welcome to the Shower]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Erich Sokol [as Sokol] (signed)
- Pencils
- Erich Sokol [as Sokol] (signed)
- Inks
- Erich Sokol [as Sokol] (signed)
- Colors
- Erich Sokol [as Sokol] (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A woman has a welcome mat at the door to her shower.
- Keywords
- shower; welcome mat
Indexer Notes
Page 65.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- John Dempsey (signed)
- Pencils
- John Dempsey (signed)
- Inks
- John Dempsey (signed)
- Colors
- John Dempsey (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oh, God! You've been arresting couples in parked cars again ...
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A policeman's wife is upset when her husband comes home from his shift aroused after arresting lovers.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- police
Indexer Notes
Page 85.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
- Pencils
- Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
- Inks
- Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
- Colors
- Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Shouldn't we be putting nuts away for the winter or something?
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- The satyr and a nymph enjoy a summer day.
- Reprints
-
in Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) #v14#4 (April 1967) which is reprinted
-
- Keywords
- nymph; satyr
Indexer Notes
Page 95. Part of the "Satyr" series.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Dink Siegel (signed)
- Pencils
- Dink Siegel (signed)
- Inks
- Dink Siegel (signed)
- Colors
- Dink Siegel (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Sometimes I wish I'd learned to take shorthand, or type, or something ...
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A secretary is called into an office by an executive clad in pajamas.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- secretary
Indexer Notes
Page 98.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Gahan Wilson (signed)
- Pencils
- Gahan Wilson (signed)
- Inks
- Gahan Wilson (signed)
- Colors
- Gahan Wilson (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's really a shame we happened to draw this judge ...
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- An attorney leads his client into a courtroom. The presiding judge is wearing a black hood and is flanked by burning candles.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- candles; courtroom; judge; lawyer
Indexer Notes
Page 101.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- E. Simms Campbell (signed)
- Pencils
- E. Simms Campbell (signed)
- Inks
- E. Simms Campbell (signed)
- Colors
- E. Simms Campbell (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Of course, with THAT model, you lay all your cards on the table, so to speak ...
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A salesclerk shows a woman a very sheer evening gown.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- evening gown
Indexer Notes
Page 114.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
- Pencils
- Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
- Inks
- Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
- Colors
- Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The winner gets Miss Hornblower for the Labor Day weekend.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A contest among car salesmen has a special prize.
- Keywords
- car salesmen; contest; secretary
Indexer Notes
Page 118.
[no title indexed]
Symbolic Sex / cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Don Addis (credited)
- Pencils
- Don Addis (credited)
- Inks
- Don Addis (credited)
- Letters
- Don Addis (credited)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Nine cartoons using the medical symbols of man and woman.
Indexer Notes
Page 129.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We prefer calling it an 'innoculation' rather than a 'fix.'
- Genre
- humor; medical
- Synopsis
- A doctor doesn't approve of a nurse's terminology.
- Keywords
- drugs; vaccines
Indexer Notes
Page 130.
[Private Bat-Signal]
cartoon / 0.3 page
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- A woman lies nude in bed and shines the Bat-Signal out the window on a flashlight.
- Keywords
- Bat-Signal; Batman; bed; flashlight
Indexer Notes
Page 131. A pantomime cartoon.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Richard Taylor [as R. Taylor] (signed)
- Pencils
- Richard Taylor [as R. Taylor] (signed)
- Inks
- Richard Taylor [as R. Taylor] (signed)
- Colors
- Richard Taylor [as R. Taylor] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I just don't feel Mr. Witherspoon BELONGS here in Retirement Acres
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- An elderly couple walks by a house where a nude old man is chasing a nude woman in the yard.
- Keywords
- cigarettes; cocktails; pipe; retirement; smoking
Indexer Notes
Page 133.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- B Kliban (signed)
- Pencils
- B Kliban (signed)
- Inks
- B Kliban (signed)
- Colors
- B Kliban (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- And how's my little key club tonight?
- Genre
- humor; historical
- Synopsis
- A medieval count keeps a woman locked in a chastity belt.
- Keywords
- candle; chastity belt; key
Indexer Notes
Page 134. Punchline is a reference to "keyholders" (members) of Playboy Clubs.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- Herbert Goldberg (signed)
- Pencils
- Herbert Goldberg (signed)
- Inks
- Herbert Goldberg (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Congratulations.
- Genre
- humor; religious
- Synopsis
- In a monastery, one monk congratulations another on having a halo above his head.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- halo; monastery; monk
Indexer Notes
Page 137.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
- Pencils
- Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
- Inks
- Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm sorry, madam, but your husband isn't accepting any calls.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A medium is unable to connect with a woman's husband in a seance.
- Keywords
- seance; turban
Indexer Notes
Page 138.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
- Pencils
- Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
- Inks
- Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
- Colors
- Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Uh ... remember that black-out we had here in New York a few months ago ... ?
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A businessman is reminded of a blackout whenever his pregnant secretary walks by.
- Keywords
- black-out; cigar; New York; pregnant; smoking
Indexer Notes
Page 141.
[The Wonderful World of ...]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A room full of television executives try to complete the title for a television show that begins "The Wonderful World of."
- Keywords
- television executives
Indexer Notes
Page 144. A pantomime cartoon.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.3 page
- Script
- Syd Hoff [as Hoff] (signed)
- Pencils
- Syd Hoff [as Hoff] (signed)
- Inks
- Syd Hoff [as Hoff] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm sorry, sir, but our music always gets Sacha!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A strolling violinist in a restaurant kisses a man's wife.
- Keywords
- kissing; restaurant; violins
Indexer Notes
Page 145.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Alphonse Normandia (signed)
- Pencils
- Alphonse Normandia (signed)
- Inks
- Alphonse Normandia (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All right, Kirk, sweetie—let's take it from your line, 'Follow me! They can't stop men who want to be free!'
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- On a movie set, the medieval hero and a handful of followers are supposed to defeat an army of thousands.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- actor; armor; camera; director; knights; lances; movie-making
Indexer Notes
Page 148. The reference to "Kirk" is apparently to Kirk Douglas, going by the caricature.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
- Pencils
- Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
- Inks
- Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi—we're from Sioux Falls, South Dakota—when does the wife swapping begin?
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A newcomer to the suburbs expects a wild time to be common.
- Keywords
- lawn-mowing; moving van; suburbs; wife-swapping
Indexer Notes
Page 151.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- Script
- Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
- Pencils
- Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
- Inks
- Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I never heard of such a thing!—Music lessons charged to your Playboy Club Key!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A Playboy Bunny is teaching piano to a young boy.
- Keywords
- piano; Playboy Bunny
Indexer Notes
Page 155.
[Pole Vault Suicide]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- Script
- Howard Shoemaker [as Shoemaker] (signed)
- Pencils
- Howard Shoemaker [as Shoemaker] (signed)
- Inks
- Howard Shoemaker [as Shoemaker] (signed)
- Genre
- humor; sports
- Synopsis
- A man ties a rope around his neck, ties the other end to a stake in the ground, and then runs with a pole toward a pole vault bar.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- pole vault; suicide
Indexer Notes
Page 156.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- Donald Reilly (signed)
- Pencils
- Donald Reilly (signed)
- Inks
- Donald Reilly (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I don't know anything about pornography, but I know what I like.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Two judges are discussing pornography.
- Keywords
- judges; pornography
Indexer Notes
Page 158.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
- Pencils
- Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
- Inks
- Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- On second thought, I think I'll dig mine a little deeper.
- Genre
- humor; military
- Synopsis
- A soldier in a fox hole has his helmet split by a farmer's plow as he plows his field with an ox.
- Keywords
- farmer; fox hole; ox; plow; Vietnam
Indexer Notes
Page 161. Not specified, but the setting is Vietnam.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.3 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- First we hold free elections, then we establish our own bylaws, and then somehow, we've got to get affiliated with a national fraternity.
- Genre
- humor; jungle
- Synopsis
- A naive Peace Corps volunteer seems to think the jungle villagers need a fraternity.
- Keywords
- fraternity; Peace Corps
Indexer Notes
Page 164.
[Switch Hitter]
comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Al Jaffee [as Jaffee] (signed)
- Pencils
- Al Jaffee [as Jaffee] (signed)
- Inks
- Al Jaffee [as Jaffee] (signed)
- Colors
- Al Jaffee [as Jaffee] (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- The usual bully on the beach leads to a man using a body-building course to build himself up. He returns to the beach to engage the bully is a show of muscles to impress the girl. However, the two men find themselves more attracted to each other.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- beach; body-building; bully; homosexual; muscles
Indexer Notes
Pages 166-167. A 13-panel pantomime story.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- Dennis Renault [as Renault] (signed)
- Pencils
- Dennis Renault [as Renault] (signed)
- Inks
- Dennis Renault [as Renault] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'll tell you why I stabbed him twenty times. I couldn't turn off the electric carving knife, that's why!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A woman on the witness stand has a novel excuse for stabbing her husband multiple times.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- courtroom; electric knife; murder; stabbing; witness
Indexer Notes
Page 169.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Buck Brown (signed)
- Pencils
- Buck Brown (signed)
- Inks
- Buck Brown (signed)
- Colors
- Buck Brown (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Honest, lady, we didn't come to rape or molest nobody—just to rob the damn train ... !!
- Genre
- humor; western-frontier
- Synopsis
- An elderly passenger on a train is upset when all the robbers want is the money.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- robbery; train
Indexer Notes
Page 173. Part of the "Dirty Old Lady" series.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It started a year ago when Ogden sat down next to this girl one morning and realized he'd forgotten his newspaper.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A two men on a commuter train comment on the couple across the aisle who are kissing.
- Keywords
- commuter train; kissing
Indexer Notes
Page 175.
[High Wire in the Desert]
cartoon / 0.2 page
- Script
- Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
- Pencils
- Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
- Inks
- Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A prospector and his donkey, in the middle of the desert, look up to see a team of acrobats riding bicycles on a high wire, which apparently isn't connected to anything, after seeing their shadows.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- acrobats; desert; donkey; high wire; prospector
Indexer Notes
Page 176.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.3 page
- Script
- Herbert Goldberg (signed)
- Pencils
- Herbert Goldberg (signed)
- Inks
- Herbert Goldberg (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- If you recall, Miss Faversham, I gave you ample warning that this job had occupational hazards.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A sculptor tells a model that he's not responsible for the baby she's holding.
- Keywords
- baby; model; sculptor
Indexer Notes
Page 177.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- John Dempsey (signed)
- Pencils
- John Dempsey (signed)
- Inks
- John Dempsey (signed)
- Colors
- John Dempsey (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Really, Mary, I wish you wouldn't do that ... !
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man in a sports car is upset when his wife thumbs her nose to insult the gang at a biker bar.
- Keywords
- biker bar; insult; motorcycles; sports car
Indexer Notes
Page 179.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
1.
[Welcome to the Shower]
-
2.
["Oh, God! You've been arresting couples in parked cars again ..."]
-
3.
["Shouldn't we be putting nuts away for the winter or something?"]
-
4.
["Sometimes I wish I'd learned to take shorthand, or type, or something ..."]
-
5.
["It's really a shame we happened to draw this judge ..."]
-
6.
["Of course, with THAT model, you lay all your cards on the table, so to speak ..."]
-
7.
["The winner gets Miss Hornblower for the Labor Day weekend."]
-
8.
[no title indexed]
Symbolic Sex -
9.
["We prefer calling it an 'innoculation' rather than a 'fix.'"]
-
10.
[Private Bat-Signal]
-
11.
["I just don't feel Mr. Witherspoon BELONGS here in Retirement Acres"]
-
12.
["And how's my little key club tonight?"]
-
13.
["Congratulations."]
-
14.
["I'm sorry, madam, but your husband isn't accepting any calls."]
-
15.
["Uh ... remember that black-out we had here in New York a few months ago ... ?"]
-
16.
[The Wonderful World of ...]
-
17.
["I'm sorry, sir, but our music always gets Sacha!"]
-
18.
["All right, Kirk, sweetie—let's take it from your line, 'Follow me! They can't stop men who want to be free!'"]
-
19.
["Hi—we're from Sioux Falls, South Dakota—when does the wife swapping begin?"]
-
20.
["I never heard of such a thing!—Music lessons charged to your Playboy Club Key!"]
-
21.
[Pole Vault Suicide]
-
22.
["I don't know anything about pornography, but I know what I like."]
-
23.
["On second thought, I think I'll dig mine a little deeper."]
-
24.
["First we hold free elections, then we establish our own bylaws, and then somehow, we've got to get affiliated with a national fraternity."]
-
25.
[Switch Hitter]
-
26.
["I'll tell you why I stabbed him twenty times. I couldn't turn off the electric carving knife, that's why!"]
-
27.
["Honest, lady, we didn't come to rape or molest nobody—just to rob the damn train ... !!"]
-
28.
["It started a year ago when Ogden sat down next to this girl one morning and realized he'd forgotten his newspaper."]
-
29.
[High Wire in the Desert]
-
30.
["If you recall, Miss Faversham, I gave you ample warning that this job had occupational hazards."]
-
31.
["Really, Mary, I wish you wouldn't do that ... !"]
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- Steven Samuels
- Luther Weaver
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