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Issue: Playboy #7
Publication Date: July 1968
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Issues: #7 of 720 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagPlayboy
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: HMH Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 15
Pages: 206
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 31 (3 stories, 0 covers)
Editor(s): Hugh M. Hefner (editor, publisher); A. C. Spectorsky (associate publisher, editorial director)
Disclose Notes: Photo of Shel Silverstein in "Playbill" on page 3. Edited Frank McCarthy movie poster painting for ad for "Dark of the Sun" on page 15. Incomplete index: cartoons clipped on pages 171 and 191.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
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
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Michael Ffolkes [as ffolkes] (signed)
Penciller(s): Michael Ffolkes [as ffolkes] (signed)
Inker(s): Michael Ffolkes [as ffolkes] (signed)
Colorist(s): Michael Ffolkes [as ffolkes] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Isn't that the notorious Lord Bloxley?
Synopsis: In colonial times, an English lord is transported in a sedan chair powered by two nude women.
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In Issue: FlagThe Best from Playboy #6 published January 1972
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Page 79.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
Penciller(s): Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
Inker(s): Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
Colorist(s): Phil Interlandi [as Interlandi] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Couldn't you just let it go at initials?
Synopsis: After an outdoor romantic conquest, a man draws a heart with initials and a recreation of the event on a boulder, to the dismay of the girl.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Erich Sokol [as Sokol] (signed)
Penciller(s): Erich Sokol [as Sokol] (signed)
Inker(s): Erich Sokol [as Sokol] (signed)
Colorist(s): Erich Sokol [as Sokol] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: I think your father likes me, Ralph.
Synopsis: A girl adjusts her clothes after an encounter with her boyfriend's father.
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Silverstein Among the Hippies

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Shel Silverstein
Penciller(s): Shel Silverstein
Inker(s): Shel Silverstein
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Shel Silverstein (cartoons, photographs)
Synopsis: Thirteen cartoons and three photographs of Silverstein interacting with hippies in San Francisco.
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Pages: 6
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Selective Advertising

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Absens] (signed)
Penciller(s): ? [as Absens] (signed)
Inker(s): ? [as Absens] (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A lawyer judges the attractiveness of the passers-by before putting a "Girl Wanted" sign in his window.
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Disclose Notes: Page 146. Vertical three-panel pantomime comic.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gahan Wilson (signed)
Penciller(s): Gahan Wilson (signed)
Inker(s): Gahan Wilson (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Looks like we can't expect to find much in that direction.
Synopsis: Two men crawling across a desert wasteland find a skeleton of a man crawling from the direction they are headed.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Penciller(s): Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Inker(s): Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Mind if I smoke?
Synopsis: A princess is chained to a wall. The dragon guarding her asks if she minds if he breathes smoke.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Donald Reilly (signed)
Penciller(s): Donald Reilly (signed)
Inker(s): Donald Reilly (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Dear, while you were out, the bongo player called to say he can't make vespers tonight.
Synopsis: A pastor's wife tells him of a change in plans for that night's service.
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Sunglasses and Paintings

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Claude Smith [as Claude] (signed)
Penciller(s): Claude Smith [as Claude] (signed)
Inker(s): Claude Smith [as Claude] (signed)
Colorist(s): Claude Smith [as Claude] (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A sunglasses-wearing painter displays his art on a fence. He gets no interest until a sunglasses-wearing couple happens by.
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Disclose Notes: Page 154. Six-panel color pantomime story.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Buck Brown (signed)
Penciller(s): Buck Brown (signed)
Inker(s): Buck Brown (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: But, Mom—Pop—I told you in my letter that my wife was white!
Synopsis: A black couple is stunned when their son brings a white man home as his wife.
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Combat Imitator

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bernard Wiseman [as B. Wiseman] (signed)
Penciller(s): Bernard Wiseman [as B. Wiseman] (signed)
Inker(s): Bernard Wiseman [as B. Wiseman] (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A baby imitates the soldier he sees crawling in combat on the television.
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Disclose Notes: Page 157. Pantomime cartoon.
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Playboy Passport

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Mort Gerberg (signed)
Penciller(s): Mort Gerberg (signed)
Inker(s): Mort Gerberg (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A Playboy Playmate has a fold-out passport.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lou Lorenz [as Lorenz] (signed)
Penciller(s): Lou Lorenz [as Lorenz] (signed)
Inker(s): Lou Lorenz [as Lorenz] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: He's not much as a private secretary, but if I need an organ transplant, he'll come in damn handy.
Synopsis: An older executive keeps an athletic young man around for spare parts.
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Tossing the Fig Leaf

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
Penciller(s): Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
Inker(s): Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
Colorist(s): Eldon Dedini [as Dedini] (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A forest nymph tosses her fig leaf to other nymphs as she's carried off by a satyr.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Buck Brown (signed)
Penciller(s): Buck Brown (signed)
Inker(s): Buck Brown (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: It's either a stag film, an underground movie or a cigarette commercial.
Synopsis: Two tramps look on a movie set, complete with chair and couch, in the middle of the forest.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Decker (signed)
Penciller(s): Richard Decker (signed)
Inker(s): Richard Decker (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: And so we say a fond farewell to a fifth of eight-year-old bourbon.
Synopsis: A couple watches another couple leave after an evening of entertaining.
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Disclose Notes: Page 172. Caption is a parody of the closing line of many travelogue movies.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Donald Reilly (signed)
Penciller(s): Donald Reilly (signed)
Inker(s): Donald Reilly (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: I have a message for the medium.
Synopsis: A bicycle messenger has a package for a fortune-teller.
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Surfing Switcheroo

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
Penciller(s): Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
Inker(s): Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
Colorist(s): Virgil Partch [as VIP] (signed)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Synopsis: A man and woman go out to do some tandem surfing, but after a tremendous wipeout, return to shore wearing each other's bathing suits.
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Disclose Notes: Page 177. Eight-panel color pantomime comic.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): George Dole (signed)
Penciller(s): George Dole (signed)
Inker(s): George Dole (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Never mind what I have in mind. Show her a fur coat!
Synopsis: A man has an ulterior motive for buying a young woman a fur coat.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lou Lorenz [as Lorenz] (signed)
Penciller(s): Lou Lorenz [as Lorenz] (signed)
Inker(s): Lou Lorenz [as Lorenz] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: I love you, too, Ralph, but is it fair to bring children into water like this?
Synopsis: Two fish speculate on their future in polluted water.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): William Shaffer [as W. Shaffer] (signed)
Penciller(s): William Shaffer [as W. Shaffer] (signed)
Inker(s): William Shaffer [as W. Shaffer] (signed)
Colorist(s): William Shaffer [as W. Shaffer] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: It's hard to believe you grew them from two tiny bulbs.
Synopsis: A man complements a young woman on her tulips, all the time looking at her breasts.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Penciller(s): Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Inker(s): Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: When's your birthday, Rigney? November 28th? Fine, that makes it 2811 enemy casualties for the week.
Synopsis: A general asks his assistant for his birthdate, so he can make up a number for that week's enemy body-count in Vietnam.
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Disclose Notes: Page 186. The caption is a parody of the weekly body counts of the enemy released by the military during the Vietnam War, which were thought to be of dubious accuracy.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Brian Savage (signed)
Penciller(s): Brian Savage (signed)
Inker(s): Brian Savage (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Mini, midi, maxi, moe...
Synopsis: A man entering a party sees three women, in three different skirt lengths, and has to decide which one to pursue.
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Disclose Notes: Page 187. The caption refers to skirt lengths. (Mini = mid-thigh, midi = below the knee; maxi = floor length.)
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
Penciller(s): Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
Inker(s): Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
Colorist(s): Alden Erikson [as A. Erikson] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: The way we figure it, ma'am, if everybody walked around naked, smoked pot and listened to rock 'n' roll, there wouldn't be any more wars!
Synopsis: A nude couple carrying a portable radio approach two ladies having a picnic in a park.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Charles E. Martin [as C. E. M] (signed)
Penciller(s): Charles E. Martin [as C. E. M] (signed)
Inker(s): Charles E. Martin [as C. E. M] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Lesson in economic determinism number one. If you get a haircut, I'll raise your allowance twenty dollars a month.
Synopsis: A father offers to raise his son's allowance if he gets a haircut.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Dana Fradon [as D. Fradon] (signed)
Penciller(s): Dana Fradon [as D. Fradon] (signed)
Inker(s): Dana Fradon [as D. Fradon] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: What are you waiting for? Turn on the old personality!
Synopsis: A lawyer tells his buxom female client to turn on the charm for the judge.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
Penciller(s): Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
Inker(s): Sidney Harris [as S. Harris] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Say—why don't we extend the mating season to all year?
Synopsis: Cavemen think having women around all the time would be a good idea.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Richard Decker (signed)
Penciller(s): Richard Decker (signed)
Inker(s): Richard Decker (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Before we start, any questions?
Synopsis: A foreman gathers his workers together before they start work on "Chicago's Finest Office Tower."
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Penciller(s): Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Inker(s): Bud Handelsman [as Handelsman] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: When he strikes you out, it doesn't mean he hates you.
Synopsis: A manager consoles a batter who just struck out.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
Penciller(s): Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
Inker(s): Francis Wilford-Smith [as Smilby] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Each to his own, eh, Mac?
Synopsis: A man with a woman slung over his shoulder greets a man carrying a giant-size bottle of liquor.
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Disclose Notes: Page 199. A parody of a 1960s Fleischmann’s Whiskey ad campaign.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Doug Sneyd [as Sneyd] (signed)
Penciller(s): Doug Sneyd [as Sneyd] (signed)
Inker(s): Doug Sneyd [as Sneyd] (signed)
Colorist(s): Doug Sneyd [as Sneyd] (signed)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Anyone care to tip the milkman?
Synopsis: The madam of the brothel asks two girls at the breakfast table if they would care to "tip" the milkman, who is already half-dressed.
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Disclose Notes: Page 201. Part of the "Brothel" series.

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