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| Vintage Playboy Magazine Covers Spanning Fifty Years 1953 Through 2003 |
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All the Playboy magazine covers are in chronological order starting with the very first issue in December 1953. The first issue was undated, as Hugh Hefner was unsure there would be a second. He produced it in his Hyde Park kitchen in Chicago, Illinois. The first magazine cover featured Marilyn Monroe, who was also the centerfold. The issue sold out in weeks. The cover price was 50 cents. Copies of the first issue in mint to near mint condition sold for over $5,000 in 2002. Playboy is one of the world's best known brands. Playboy's original title was to be Stag Party, but an unrelated outdoor magazine, Stag, contacted Hefner and informed him that they would protect their trademark if he were to launch his magazine with that name. Hefner and co-founder, executive vice president Eldon Sellers, met to seek a new name. Sellers, whose mother had worked for the Chicago sales office of the short lived Playboy Automobile Company, suggested "Playboy." The logo, the stylized profile of a rabbit wearing a tuxedo bow tie, was originally designed by art designer Art Paul for the second issue to be used as an endnote, but was adopted as the official logo, and has appeared ever since. A running joke in the magazine involves hiding the logo somewhere in the cover art or photograph. Hefner said he chose the rabbit for its "humorous sexual connotation," and because the image was "frisky and playful." |
 Playboy magazine cover December 1953. |
 Playboy magazine cover January 1954. |
 Playboy magazine cover February 1954. |
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 Playboy magazine cover March 1954. |
 Playboy magazine cover April 1954. |
 Playboy magazine cover May 1954. |
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