Playboy
#v14#4
(April 1967)
Playboy,
1953 Series
- Volume
- 14
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 218
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- HMH Publishing Co. Inc.
- Editing
- Hugh M. Hefner (editor, publisher); A. C. Spectorsky (associate publisher, editorial director)
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.
[no title indexed]
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)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I think our bareback rider has come up with a great gimmick.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A female bareback rider in a circus stands on the back of a horse, wearing a skirt but no underwear.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- circus; horse
Indexer Notes
Page 81.
[no title indexed]
Vargas / cartoon / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Alberto Vargas [as Vargas] (signed, painting)
- Inks
- Alberto Vargas [as Vargas] (signed, painting)
- Colors
- Alberto Vargas [as Vargas] (signed, painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Who says the new generation is in terrible shape?!
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Pages 94-95. A two-page pinup of a barefoot blonde girl in corduroy jeans and hat.
[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
- Press the other button and see what it does.
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Synopsis
- Two robot-like aliens on a spaceship have captured an Earth woman and are examining her.
- Keywords
- aliens; nude; robots; spaceship
Indexer Notes
Page 111.
Satyrs & Nymphs
cartoon / 4 pages
- 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
- Genre
- humor; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Satyr
- Reprints
-
from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) #v12#3 (March 1965), #v13#6 (June 1966), #v13#8 (August 1966) - in The Best from Playboy (Playboy Press, 1964 series) #5 (1971)
- from Playboy (Playboy, 1953 series) 19XX-XX-XX [Various unknown issues.]
-
- Keywords
- bar; bartender; centaur; nymphs; priest; satyr
Indexer Notes
Pages 126-129. Fifteen cartoons from the Satyr series reprinted from various issues of Playboy.
[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
- After the show, let's get together for few laughs ... !
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- At a circus freak show, a midget propositions the fat lady.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- circus; freak show
Indexer Notes
Page 134.
[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
- I don't think you even meant to leap—you just stumbled and FELL ... !
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man and a woman are in mid-air, falling from a "Lover's Leap." The woman complains that the man didn't intend to fall.
- Keywords
- lover's leap; nagging; suicide
Indexer Notes
Page 146.
[Unexpected Bundle]
comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- Howard Shoemaker [as Shoemaker] (signed)
- Pencils
- Howard Shoemaker [as Shoemaker] (signed)
- Inks
- Howard Shoemaker [as Shoemaker] (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Bridesmaids prepare to catch the bride's bouquet at a wedding. Instead, one of them is handed a baby and the married couple drives off.
- Keywords
- baby; bride; wedding
Indexer Notes
Page 149. A two-panel pantomime story.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The court sentences you to, oh, four and a half years.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A bored judge looks at the courtroom clock that reads 4:30 and decides to sentence the defendant to four-and-a-half years in prison.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- clock; courtroom; judge
Indexer Notes
Page 150.
[Moveable Static]
comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
- Pencils
- Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
- Inks
- Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man is watching television with a picture window in the background. There is static on the television, but when he clears the static from the television, it moves to disrupt the view from the picture window.
- Keywords
- picture window; static; television
Indexer Notes
Page 153.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 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
- There are times when I almost begrudge Coca-Cola their world-wide sales.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Staffers in an American embassy in a foreign country have their large windows broken by demonstrators throwing Coca-Cola bottles.
- Keywords
- bottles; Coca-cola; demonstration; embassy; windows
Indexer Notes
Page 156.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Are you the kid who hit my kid brother?
- Genre
- humor; religious
- Characters
- David
- Synopsis
- After David slays Goliath, an even larger Philistine steps out to challenge him.
- Keywords
- Bible; Philistines
Indexer Notes
Page 159.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Charles E. Martin [as C.E.M.] (signed)
- Pencils
- Charles E. Martin [as C.E.M.] (signed)
- Inks
- Charles E. Martin [as C.E.M.] (signed)
- Colors
- Charles E. Martin [as C.E.M.] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm terribly sorry about breaking the date, Mother, but you KNOW how changeable Ronnie can be ... !
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A princess telephones her mother to cancel a date because her prince-husband has turned back into a frog.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- frog; princess; telephone
Indexer Notes
Page 160.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- Joseph Farris [as JG Farris] (signed)
- Pencils
- Joseph Farris [as JG Farris] (signed)
- Inks
- Joseph Farris [as JG Farris] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Roland! I thought you were going to be under LSD today!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A woman is making out with a painter when her boyfriend unexpectedly shows up.
- Keywords
- drugs; LSD; painter
Indexer Notes
Page 162.
[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
- She's doing all right for a high school dropout.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Two women gossip about a richly-dressed woman getting out of a chauffeur-driven limousine.
- Keywords
- limousine
Indexer Notes
Page 165.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I hope you're musically inclined.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A woman struggles out of the ocean on a desert island, which is inhabited by a man with a trumpet, who needs someone to play a bass drum.
- Keywords
- desert island; drum; palm tree; trumpet
Indexer Notes
Page 166.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- All right, Mr. Brown, but how do I know this is MRS. Brown?
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- The elderly owners of a rural motel are suspicious of a couple that is as old as they are.
- Keywords
- motel
Indexer Notes
Page 169.
[Oblivious to Destruction]
cartoon / 0.3 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Two workmen tearing down a building are surprised to find a couple making out on a couch, oblivious to the destruction happening around them.
- Keywords
- crane; demolition
Indexer Notes
Page 170.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.3 page
- Script
- Marvin Tannenberg [as Tann] (signed)
- Pencils
- Marvin Tannenberg [as Tann] (signed)
- Inks
- Marvin Tannenberg [as Tann] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Peace Corps. Job Corps. Youth Mobilization—whatever happened to looking for a job?
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A father is concerned with his college son's future options.
- Keywords
- college
Indexer Notes
Page 171.
[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
- He has become like that since beginning the affairs with the beautiful señoritas ... !
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A bullfighter is overly-conscious of protecting his groin when the bull charges by.
- Keywords
- bull; cape; matador
Indexer Notes
Page 173.
[Do It Now!]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A businessman sits at his desk with a gun at his temple, looking at a "Do It Now!" sign on the wall.
- Keywords
- handgun; suicide
Indexer Notes
Page 175. A pantomime cartoon.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- Marvin Tannenberg [as Tann] (signed)
- Pencils
- Marvin Tannenberg [as Tann] (signed)
- Inks
- Marvin Tannenberg [as Tann] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Harry, you've never taken this long to close ranks ... !
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man sits in a chair watching television, holding a protest sign that says "In your heart - you know he's right!"
- Keywords
- Republican; slogan; television
Indexer Notes
Page 176. "In your heart - you know he's right" was a campaign slogan for Republican Barry Goldwater, who lost the 1964 presidential election to Lyndon B. Johnson.
[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
- Why did you ask me to bring a friend? Couldn't you both paint ONE model?
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A nude model is suspicious that the two painters have something other than painting on their minds.
- Keywords
- liquor; model; nude; painting
Indexer Notes
Page 178.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.25 page
- Script
- Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
- Pencils
- Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
- Inks
- Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Have we EVER lied to you, son?
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- An elderly couple is being grilled by their son, who works for the Internal Revenue Service.
- Keywords
- audit; Internal Revenue Service; taxes
Indexer Notes
Page 181.
Venus and Adonis
The Playboy Art Gallery / cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Jim Beamon (credited)
- Pencils
- Jim Beamon (credited, painting)
- Inks
- Jim Beamon (credited, painting)
- Colors
- Jim Beamon (credited, painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- satire-parody
- Synopsis
- A parody of the painting "Venus and Adonis", with Adonis having his back scratched, apparently from some vigorous love-making.
Indexer Notes
Page 183. A parody of the 1630s painting "Venus and Adonis" by Peter Paul Rubens.
[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
- I was COMMISSIONED to show 'The Spirit of Progress Led by Abstract Science,' but I figured what the hell ...
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A sculptor was commissioned to do one project, but decides to do a huge nude female torso instead.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- nude; sculpture
Indexer Notes
Page 187.
[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
- Where did you say you stole that brain ... ?
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody
- Characters
- Frankenstein
- Synopsis
- Two scientists look at their new monster, which has a definite feminine attitude.
- Reprints
- in The Playboy Cartoon Album (Playboy Press, 1963 series) #4 (1971) [black and white]
-
- Keywords
- Frankenstein; homosexual; monster; scientists
Indexer Notes
Page 190.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Fool that I was, I simply ASSUMED you couldn't take it with you.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Two angels in heaven watch as a man drives his fancy convertible through the Pearly Gates, with a beautiful woman beside him and his golf clubs and bags of money in the back seat.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- angels; convertible; golf clubs; heaven; Pearly Gates
Indexer Notes
Page 194. Punchline is based on the saying "You can't take it with you," referring to death and Earthly possessions.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- Script
- Donald Reilly (signed)
- Pencils
- Donald Reilly (signed)
- Inks
- Donald Reilly (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Room service?—This is 1708 ... cancel that chicken salad on white ...
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- As a man climbs out a window to commit suicide, he takes the time to call the hotel's room service to cancel a order for a sandwich.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- room service; suicide; telephone
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
- But I take the pill every time I become pregnant, and it doesn't help.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A social worker checks up on a woman with five children, who is living in a shack, and finds she doesn't have any idea how birth control pills work.
- Keywords
- birth control
Indexer Notes
Page 196.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- Script
- ? [as Moynihan] (signed)
- Pencils
- ? [as Moynihan] (signed)
- Inks
- ? [as Moynihan] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well, that certainly is a coincidence—I was on MY way to borrow a towel from YOU!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A dripping wet nude woman opens the door of her apartment to find a dripping wet nude man standing there.
- Keywords
- apartment; nude; towel
Indexer Notes
Page 197.
[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
- Your father and I would like a word with you, dear. The word is 'DON'T'!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- Parents of an attractive teen-age daughter keep their sex education talk short and to the point.
- Keywords
- sex education; teen-ager
Indexer Notes
Page 199.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.4 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Damnit, man, can't you do anything right?!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- When three sparsely-clad women jump out of a cake to entertain a men's party, the baker is in the cake, too.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- baker; cake
Indexer Notes
Page 200. Cartoonist's signature is illegible.
[Wrong Way Golfer]
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
- Pencils
- Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
- Inks
- Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
- Colors
- Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
- Genre
- humor; sports
- Synopsis
- A golfer hits a mighty drive, but then his playing partner tees up to drive in the opposite direction.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- golf
Indexer Notes
Page 205. A nine-panel pantomime story.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.33 page
- Script
- Edward Frascino [as Frascino] (signed)
- Pencils
- Edward Frascino [as Frascino] (signed)
- Inks
- Edward Frascino [as Frascino] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well, at the time I told you I was a virgin, I was.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man is surprised on his wedding night.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- bride; groom; virgin; wedding
Indexer Notes
Page 206.
[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
- It's for you!
- Genre
- humor; historical
- Synopsis
- A servant in a castle is struck in the back by an arrow that came through an open window. The arrow holds a note for the lord seated at a nearby table.
- Keywords
- arrow; castle
Indexer Notes
Page 207.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.2 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- OK, send in the first of those 'holdout proxies.'
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- The chairman of a company's board of directors decorates his office as a den of seduction, complete with a sultry woman, in order to get the owners of stock shares to vote in the proper manner.
- Keywords
- champagne; cigarettes; prostitute; smoking; stocks
Indexer Notes
Page 208.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 0.3 page
- Script
- Marvin Tannenberg [as Tann] (signed)
- Pencils
- Marvin Tannenberg [as Tann] (signed)
- Inks
- Marvin Tannenberg [as Tann] (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Take my word for it, lady—this is not Dial-a-Prayer!
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A man answering the telephone in a pool hall tries to convince the caller that she has a wrong number.
- Keywords
- Dial-a-Prayer; pool hall; telephone; wrong number
Indexer Notes
Page 210.
[no title indexed]
cartoon / 1 page
- Script
- Don Lewis ?
- Pencils
- Don Lewis (signed) (painting)
- Inks
- Don Lewis (signed) (painting)
- Colors
- Don Lewis (signed) (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I loved the audition even if I don't get the part.
- Genre
- humor
- Reprints
- Keywords
- casting couch; high heels
Indexer Notes
Page 213. A brunette in high heels adjusts her nylon stockings, while her dress hangs on a clothes rack nearby.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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1.
["I think our bareback rider has come up with a great gimmick."]
-
2.
["Who says the new generation is in terrible shape?!"]
Vargas -
3.
["Press the other button and see what it does."]
-
4.
Satyrs & Nymphs
-
5.
["After the show, let's get together for few laughs ... !"]
-
6.
["I don't think you even meant to leap—you just stumbled and FELL ... !"]
-
7.
[Unexpected Bundle]
-
8.
["The court sentences you to, oh, four and a half years."]
-
9.
[Moveable Static]
-
10.
["There are times when I almost begrudge Coca-Cola their world-wide sales."]
-
11.
["Are you the kid who hit my kid brother?"]
-
12.
["I'm terribly sorry about breaking the date, Mother, but you KNOW how changeable Ronnie can be ... !"]
-
13.
["Roland! I thought you were going to be under LSD today!"]
-
14.
["She's doing all right for a high school dropout."]
-
15.
["I hope you're musically inclined."]
-
16.
["All right, Mr. Brown, but how do I know this is MRS. Brown?"]
-
17.
[Oblivious to Destruction]
-
18.
["Peace Corps. Job Corps. Youth Mobilization—whatever happened to looking for a job?"]
-
19.
["He has become like that since beginning the affairs with the beautiful señoritas ... !"]
-
20.
[Do It Now!]
-
21.
["Harry, you've never taken this long to close ranks ... !"]
-
22.
["Why did you ask me to bring a friend? Couldn't you both paint ONE model?"]
-
23.
["Have we EVER lied to you, son?"]
-
24.
Venus and Adonis
The Playboy Art Gallery -
25.
["I was COMMISSIONED to show 'The Spirit of Progress Led by Abstract Science,' but I figured what the hell ..."]
-
26.
["Where did you say you stole that brain ... ?"]
-
27.
["Fool that I was, I simply ASSUMED you couldn't take it with you."]
-
28.
["Room service?—This is 1708 ... cancel that chicken salad on white ..."]
-
29.
["But I take the pill every time I become pregnant, and it doesn't help."]
-
30.
["Well, that certainly is a coincidence—I was on MY way to borrow a towel from YOU!"]
-
31.
["Your father and I would like a word with you, dear. The word is 'DON'T'!"]
-
32.
["Damnit, man, can't you do anything right?!"]
-
33.
[Wrong Way Golfer]
-
34.
["Well, at the time I told you I was a virgin, I was."]
-
35.
["It's for you!"]
-
36.
["OK, send in the first of those 'holdout proxies.'"]
-
37.
["Take my word for it, lady—this is not Dial-a-Prayer!"]
-
38.
["I loved the audition even if I don't get the part."]
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- Steven Samuels
- Luther Weaver
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