Playboy
Playboy,
1953 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Publication Dates:
- [December] 1953 - Fall 2019
- Number of Issues Published:
- 720 (#v1#1 - #4/2019)
- Color:
- color
- Dimensions:
- magazine size
- Paper Stock:
- heavy coated paper
- Binding:
- saddle-stitched (v1#1 - v32#9); perfect bound (v32#10 & up)
- Publishing Format:
- was ongoing
- Publication Type:
- magazine
Series Details:
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Cover Gallery
Details by Issue
Series Timeline
- Cover and Main Story Overview
- Creator Checklist (via linked story records)
- Creator Name Checklist (via linked story records)
- Character List (via linked story records)
- Approximately 67 issues with text credits to migrate.
Publisher's Brands:
- no publisher's brand (65 issues)
- without publisher's brand information (655 issues)
Indicia Publishers:
- HMH Publishing Co. Inc. (53 issues)
- Playboy Enterprises Inc. (1 issue)
- Playboy (12 issues)
- without indicia publisher information (654 issues)
Notes
Many panel cartoons per issue; occasional comic stories. No March 1955 issue exists due to a missed staff deadline. That issue instead became the April 1955 (vol. 2 #4) issue. The series was otherwise published monthly until the July/August 2009 issue. With the January/February 2010 issue publication was reduced to ten issues per year. Circulation was eventually reduced to bimonthly and by 2019 quarterly.
The print magazine's suspension was announced on March 18, 2020 in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and other factors.
The print magazine's suspension was announced on March 18, 2020 in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and other factors.
Editing
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.
Index Status
| Indexed | Partially Indexed | Pending Approval | Reserved | Skeleton Data Only |
Image Resources Status
| SoO and Indicia | Indicia | SoO | No Scans |
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