Playboy
#v13#11
(November 1966)
Playboy,
1953 Series
- Volume
- 13
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 258
- 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
Indexed from a clipped issue. A few cartoons are missing and therefore not indexed.
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.
[Too-Real Practice for Bullfight]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
- Pencils
- Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
- Inks
- Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
- Colors
- Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- During bullfighting practice, a matador stabs the man wheeling a practice cart with a bull's head on it.
- Keywords
- bullfight; matador; practice; sword
Indexer Notes
Page 108. A pantomime cartoon.
[Model Bachelor Apartment]
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)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man walks by the open door of an apartment, which has a sign that reads "Model Bachelor Apartment. Open for Inspection." Inside, a naked young man is chasing a naked young woman.
- Keywords
- bachelor; nude; pipe; smoking
Indexer Notes
Page 131. A pantomime cartoon.
[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
- Sooner or later she finds a way to get the conversation around to her figure.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Two women at a party gossip about another, who has captured male attention by lowering the top of her dress.
- Keywords
- cocktails; party; topless
Indexer Notes
Page 142.
[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
- Frankly, what with Harry's brooding over Vietnam, inflation, Negro uprisings, air pollution, student protests, and the John Birch Society, it's solving OUR problem of birth control.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A woman complains that her partner is too interested in politics to be interested in sex.
- Keywords
- birth control
Indexer Notes
Page 161.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
- Pencils
- Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
- Inks
- Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
- Colors
- Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Let all bitterness and wrath and evil speaking be put away from you ... and be ye kind, tenderhearted and forgiving. Ephesians, chapter 4, verses 31-2.
- Genre
- humor; historical
- Synopsis
- A Crusader quotes scripture as he attacks the Muslims in the Holy Land.
- Keywords
- Crusades; Holy Land; horses; Muslims; scripture; swords
Indexer Notes
Page 175.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- Script
- Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
- Pencils
- Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
- Inks
- Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Cut out that 'Wouldst' and 'Thou,' Hiram Goodbody, and put it to me straight. Are you, or are you not, propositioning me?
- Genre
- humor; historical
- Synopsis
- A Puritan woman wants a man to get to the point.
- Keywords
- proposition; Puritans
Indexer Notes
Page 180.
[no title indexed]
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Claude Smith [as Claude] (signed)
- Pencils
- Claude Smith [as Claude] (signed)
- Inks
- Claude Smith [as Claude] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gosh Mr. Morton, what brings you down here?
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- An executive enters an office to find the man holding his secretary on his lap. The executive then leaves, but takes the secretary with him.
- Keywords
- secretary
Indexer Notes
Page 186. A two-panel comic story.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Darlene grew two inches while you were away.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A mother is talking about her daughter growing two inches taller, while a soldier back on leave is staring at the girl's bust.
- Keywords
- soldier
Indexer Notes
Page 188.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It looks as if Bodecker's project has gotten completely out of hand.
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Synopsis
- Two scientists open the door to a "restricted" lab, only to find themselves gazing into a dimension of planets and stars.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- dimension; experiments; restricted
in Indexer Notes
Page 190.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- My secretary thinks you're very attractive for a woman your age.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man gives his middle-aged wife a back-handed compliment.
Indexer Notes
Page 191.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.3 page
- Script
- Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
- Pencils
- Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
- Inks
- Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bradshaw? I don't BEGIN to trust Bradshaw. He's a dove in hawk's clothing.
- Genre
- humor; military
- Synopsis
- Outside the Pentagon, two generals discuss another officer.
- Keywords
- dove; generals; hawk; Pentagon; Vietnam
Indexer Notes
Page 193.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- So I said to myself, why should the fans be the only ones to have half-time entertainment?
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A football coach decides to give his players some entertainment in the locker room at halftime—with a nude woman.
- Keywords
- coach; football; locker room; nude; smoking
Indexer Notes
Page 195.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- Script
- Sidney Harris ? [as S. Harris] (signed)
- Pencils
- Sidney Harris ? [as S. Harris] (signed)
- Inks
- Sidney Harris ? [as S. Harris] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You boys shouldn't just hang around the street like juvenile delinquents. You should have plans, ambitions, objectives. How about joining the mob?
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man tries to recruit a couple of teens in leather jackets into organized crime.
- Keywords
- juvenile delinquents; leather jackets; Mafia; organized crime; smoking
Indexer Notes
Page 198. Signature on cartoon is not clear.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- But downstairs ... in the bar ... I thought you said you loved me ...
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man is surprised when the girl he took to a hotel room has a coin-changing belt on her underwear.
- Keywords
- coin-changer; hotel; prostitution
Indexer Notes
Page 201.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- John Ruge [as Ruge] (signed)
- Pencils
- John Ruge [as Ruge] (signed)
- Inks
- John Ruge [as Ruge] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- True, the parsonage is small and the remuneration meager, but the congregation should be the source of a best-selling novel.
- Genre
- humor; religious
- Synopsis
- A supervising cleric gives a young pastor a reason for taking a job in a church.
- Keywords
- Bible; church; pastor
Indexer Notes
Page 202.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
- Pencils
- Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
- Inks
- Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- So the birds lay eggs, and all that jazz, and the little bumblebees help the flowers pollinate. Now run along, and for God's sake, don't get any more girls pregnant.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A father gives his son an abbreviated version of "the birds and the bees," apparently long after it would have done any good.
- Keywords
- sex education
Indexer Notes
Page 213.
[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
- The files are in alphabetical order, Miss Nordburg. You know—A, B, C, D, E, F ...
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A file clerk apparently got her job for her figure, not for her brains.
- Keywords
- file cabinet
Indexer Notes
Page 218.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- ? [as Van Meter] (signed)
- Pencils
- ? [as Van Meter] (signed)
- Inks
- ? [as Van Meter] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We're looking for something nice in the way of a get-sick card.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A "beatnik" couple has an unusual request for a clerk in a greeting cards shop.
- Keywords
- greeting cards
Indexer Notes
Page 222.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The party should be breaking up any minute now. Shall we stay and watch?
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A party is turning into a wife-swapping fest.
- Keywords
- wife-swapping
Indexer Notes
Page 224.
[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
- ... Each night I dream someone will come and take this love I have to offer.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A psychiatrist prepares to seduce his client.
- Keywords
- psychiatrist
Indexer Notes
Page 226.
[Tattoo Doodles]
cartoon / 0.3 page
- Script
- Charles Rodrigues [as Rodrigues] (signed)
- Pencils
- Charles Rodrigues [as Rodrigues] (signed)
- Inks
- Charles Rodrigues [as Rodrigues] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- While talking on the phone, a tattoo artist doodles on the back of a sailor.
- Keywords
- sailor; tattoo; telephone
Indexer Notes
Page 228. A pantomime cartoon.
[Cut on Dotted Line in Desert]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
- Pencils
- Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
- Inks
- Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A hiker in the desert is disturbed when he reads "Cut on the Dotted Line" on the ground and notices his footprints make a dotted line.
- Keywords
- desert
Indexer Notes
Page 229. A pantomime cartoon.
[Opposites]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- Ed Renfro ? [as Renfro] (signed)
- Pencils
- Ed Renfro ? [as Renfro] (signed)
- Inks
- Ed Renfro ? [as Renfro] (signed)
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A centaur doesn't know what to think when he meets a woman with a horse's head.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- centaur
Indexer Notes
Page 230. A pantomime cartoon.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.3 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How much do you want for Boardwalk and Park Place?
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Bankers are playing Monopoly in the bank vault after hours, using real money.
- Keywords
- bank; Monopoly; vault
Indexer Notes
Page 232.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
- Pencils
- Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
- Inks
- Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I worked six hours on that soup.
- Genre
- humor; historical
- Synopsis
- A cook complains when his vat of soup is dumped on invaders scaling the wall of the castle.
- Keywords
- castle; siege; soup
Indexer Notes
Page 233.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- Script
- Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
- Pencils
- Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
- Inks
- Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I say we must oppose the subversives in the market place of ideas; and only after failing to win there should we throw them in jail.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Two older executives on the commuter train discuss how to handle demonstrations.
- Keywords
- commuter train; generation gap
Indexer Notes
Page 235.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- Script
- Bill Hoest [as Hoest] (signed)
- Pencils
- Bill Hoest [as Hoest] (signed)
- Inks
- Bill Hoest [as Hoest] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well, my gosh, Martha—you've been after me for years to take up some kind of hobby ...
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A wife is surprised to learn that her husband has five women in a torture chamber in their basement.
- Keywords
- basement; bondage; cat-o-nine-tails; furnace; torture
Indexer Notes
Page 238.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Everything's OK, officer—we're settling out of court.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A motorcycle policeman finds that a man and woman have found a way to settle things when their cars collide.
- Keywords
- auto accident; motorcycle policeman
Indexer Notes
Page 241.
[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
- You have a dirty mind; I like that in a man.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A woman is receptive when a man makes suggestive small talk.
- Keywords
- abstract art; couch
Indexer Notes
Page 243.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- Alphonse Normandia (signed)
- Pencils
- Alphonse Normandia (signed)
- Inks
- Alphonse Normandia (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It wants a window office ...
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A huge mainframe computer prints demands on its read-out tape.
- Keywords
- artificial intelligence; computer
Indexer Notes
Page 247.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
- Pencils
- Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
- Inks
- Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
- Colors
- Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hell—this looks like a radical little community!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A couple drives into a town where a unusual demonstration is being held; the difference being all the protest signs are in favor of right-wing causes.
- Keywords
- demonstration; politics; protest signs; right-wing
Indexer Notes
Page 249.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 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
- Oops—sorry about that!
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Synopsis
- The Ajax White Knight rides through a cotton field and accidentally turns one of the black cotton-pickers white.
- Keywords
- African-American; Ajax; commercial; cotton; White Knight
Indexer Notes
Page 253. The cartoon is based on mid-1960s Ajax Laundry Detergent TV commercials that featured a White Knight on horseback who had a lance that shot a ray that got rid of dirt on clothes. "Ajax Laundry Detergent—It's stronger than dirt!"
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
1.
[Too-Real Practice for Bullfight]
-
2.
[Model Bachelor Apartment]
-
3.
["Sooner or later she finds a way to get the conversation around to her figure."]
-
4.
["Frankly, what with Harry's brooding over Vietnam, inflation, Negro uprisings, air pollution, student protests, and the John Birch Society, it's solving OUR problem of birth control."]
-
5.
["Let all bitterness and wrath and evil speaking be put away from you ... and be ye kind, tenderhearted and forgiving. Ephesians, chapter 4, verses 31-2."]
-
6.
["Cut out that 'Wouldst' and 'Thou,' Hiram Goodbody, and put it to me straight. Are you, or are you not, propositioning me?"]
-
7.
["Gosh Mr. Morton, what brings you down here?"]
-
8.
["Darlene grew two inches while you were away."]
-
9.
["It looks as if Bodecker's project has gotten completely out of hand."]
-
10.
["My secretary thinks you're very attractive for a woman your age."]
-
11.
["Bradshaw? I don't BEGIN to trust Bradshaw. He's a dove in hawk's clothing."]
-
12.
["So I said to myself, why should the fans be the only ones to have half-time entertainment?"]
-
13.
["You boys shouldn't just hang around the street like juvenile delinquents. You should have plans, ambitions, objectives. How about joining the mob?"]
-
14.
["But downstairs ... in the bar ... I thought you said you loved me ..."]
-
15.
["True, the parsonage is small and the remuneration meager, but the congregation should be the source of a best-selling novel."]
-
16.
["So the birds lay eggs, and all that jazz, and the little bumblebees help the flowers pollinate. Now run along, and for God's sake, don't get any more girls pregnant."]
-
17.
["The files are in alphabetical order, Miss Nordburg. You know—A, B, C, D, E, F ..."]
-
18.
["We're looking for something nice in the way of a get-sick card."]
-
19.
["The party should be breaking up any minute now. Shall we stay and watch?"]
-
20.
["... Each night I dream someone will come and take this love I have to offer."]
-
21.
[Tattoo Doodles]
-
22.
[Cut on Dotted Line in Desert]
-
23.
[Opposites]
-
24.
["How much do you want for Boardwalk and Park Place?"]
-
25.
["I worked six hours on that soup."]
-
26.
["I say we must oppose the subversives in the market place of ideas; and only after failing to win there should we throw them in jail."]
-
27.
["Well, my gosh, Martha—you've been after me for years to take up some kind of hobby ..."]
-
28.
["Everything's OK, officer—we're settling out of court."]
-
29.
["You have a dirty mind; I like that in a man."]
-
30.
["It wants a window office ..."]
-
31.
["Hell—this looks like a radical little community!"]
-
32.
["Oops—sorry about that!"]
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