PLAYBOY MAGAZINE
By Hugh Hefner & various
Playboy Enterprises, Inc

February 1958, Vol 5 #2

▲ BEAUTIFUL VG++++ CONDITION, with the usual surface wear & slight rubbing to covers from being read, displayed, handled and stored. Nice tight white copy, Minimal stress at spine and staples. SUBSCRIPTION card and Fold Out still attached.

▲ Please refer to scanned images- they are accurate and have not been edited or corrected and, as always, are worth at least a thousand words. ▲ NOTE: Due to a quirk with the scanner these magazine are much nicer than these particular scanned images.

Playmate: Cheryl Kubert

Pictorials: Periscope Up for a Pin-Up; The Nude - Jayne Mansfield.

Features:Science Fiction story "Examination Day" by Henry Slesar; "The Beat Mystique" - three articles on the Beat Generation; "What It Is -- Whence It Came" by Herbert Gold; "Cool Swinging in New York" by Sam Boal; "A Frigid Frolic in Frisco" by Noel Clad; SF Murder story "Let There Be Light" by Arthur C. Clarke; "Thank You, Anna" by William Safire; 1958 Jazz All-Stars by Leonard Feather.

We have purchased several large PLAYBOY collections (including a complete one) recently and are listing them a bit at a time, so, please be patient. You are welcome to contact us and request specific issues you'd like us to list as we plod along.

Playboy is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. Notable for its centerfolds of nude and semi-nude models (Playmates), Playboy played an important role in the sexual revolution and remains one of the world's best-known brands, having grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with a presence in nearly every medium. In addition to the flagship magazine in the United States, special nation-specific versions of Playboy are published worldwide.

The magazine has a long history of publishing short stories by notable novelists such as Arthur C. Clarke,Ian Fleming, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Chuck Palahniuk, P. G. Wodehouse, Roald Dahl, Haruki Murakami, and Margaret Atwood. With a regular display of full-page color cartoons, it became a showcase for notable cartoonists, including Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Erich Sokol, Roy Raymonde, Gahan Wilson, and Rowland B. Wilson. Playboy features monthly interviews of notable public figures, such as artists, architects, economists, composers, conductors, film directors, journalists, novelists, playwrights, religious figures, politicians, athletes, and race car drivers. The magazine generally reflects a liberal editorial stance, although it often interviews conservative celebrities[wiki]