HUGH HEFNER SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED PLAYBOY DECEMBER 2005 WITH MARILYN MONORE COVER
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:1422831 | Modified Item: Yes |
| Celebrity: HUGH M HEFNER | Original/Reproduction: Original |
| Modification Description: Signed |
CONTINUATION OF THE SALE OF MY PRIVATE COLLECTION OF SIGNED PLAYBOYS. COUNTING DOWN TO THE 1950'S. TODAY I AM SELLING ALL 12 ISSUES FROM 2005. THREE OF THEM ARE SIGNED BY THE AMERICAN ICON HUGH M HEFNER.
HUGH M HEFNER SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED PLAYBOY DECEMBER 2005. THIS IS A VERY RARE COMBINATION. MARILYN MONROE WAS THE VERY FIRST PLAYMATE OF HUGH HEFNER'S NEW MAGAZINE "PLAYBOY" IN DECEMBER 1953!!!!
1950s[edit]Centerfold of Marilyn Monroe from the first issue of... Playboy, December 1953By spring 1953, Hugh Hefner—a 1949 University of Illinois psychology graduate who had worked in Chicago for Esquiremagazine writing promotional copy; Publisher's Development Corporation in sales and marketing; and Children's Activities magazine as circulation promotions manager[17]—had planned out the elements of his own magazine, that he would call Stag Party.[18] He formed HMH Publishing Corporation, and recruited his friend Eldon Sellers to find investors.[18] Hefner eventually raised just over $8, 000, including from his brother and mother.[19] However, the publisher of an unrelated men's adventure magazine, Stag, contacted Hefner and informed him it would file suit to protect their trademark if he were to launch his magazine with that name.[17][20]Hefner, his wife Millie, and Sellers met to seek a new name, considering "Top Hat", "Gentleman", "Sir'", "Satyr", "Pan" and "Bachelor" before Sellers suggested "Playboy".[20][21]The first issue, in December 1953, was undated, as Hefner was unsure there would be a second. He produced it in his Hyde Park kitchen. The first centerfold was Marilyn Monroe, although the picture used originally was taken for a calendar rather than for Playboy.[22] Hefner chose what he deemed the "sexiest" image, a previously unused nude study of Marilyn stretched with an upraised arm on a red velvet background with closed eyes and mouth open.[23] The heavy promotion centered around Marilyn's nudity on the already-famous calendar, together with the teasers in marketing, made the new Playboy magazine a success.[24][25] The first issue sold out in weeks. Known circulation was 53, 991.[26] The cover price was 50¢. Copies of the first issue in mint to near-mint condition sold for over $5, 000 in 2002.[citation needed]The novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, was published in 1953 and serialized in the March, April and May 1954 issues of Playboy.[27]An urban legend started about Hefner and the Playmate of the Month because of markings on the front covers of the magazine. From 1955 to 1979 (except for a six-month gap in 1976), the "P" in Playboy had stars printed in or around the letter. The legend stated that this was either a rating that Hefner gave to the Playmate according to how attractive she was, the number of times that Hefner had slept with her, or how good she was in bed. The stars, between zero and 12, actually indicated the domestic or international advertising region for that printing.[28]
HUGH M HEFNER SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED PLAYBOY DECEMBER 2005. THIS IS A VERY RARE COMBINATION. MARILYN MONROE WAS THE VERY FIRST PLAYMATE OF HUGH HEFNER'S NEW MAGAZINE "PLAYBOY" IN DECEMBER 1953!!!!
1950s[edit]Centerfold of Marilyn Monroe from the first issue of... Playboy, December 1953By spring 1953, Hugh Hefner—a 1949 University of Illinois psychology graduate who had worked in Chicago for Esquiremagazine writing promotional copy; Publisher's Development Corporation in sales and marketing; and Children's Activities magazine as circulation promotions manager[17]—had planned out the elements of his own magazine, that he would call Stag Party.[18] He formed HMH Publishing Corporation, and recruited his friend Eldon Sellers to find investors.[18] Hefner eventually raised just over $8, 000, including from his brother and mother.[19] However, the publisher of an unrelated men's adventure magazine, Stag, contacted Hefner and informed him it would file suit to protect their trademark if he were to launch his magazine with that name.[17][20]Hefner, his wife Millie, and Sellers met to seek a new name, considering "Top Hat", "Gentleman", "Sir'", "Satyr", "Pan" and "Bachelor" before Sellers suggested "Playboy".[20][21]The first issue, in December 1953, was undated, as Hefner was unsure there would be a second. He produced it in his Hyde Park kitchen. The first centerfold was Marilyn Monroe, although the picture used originally was taken for a calendar rather than for Playboy.[22] Hefner chose what he deemed the "sexiest" image, a previously unused nude study of Marilyn stretched with an upraised arm on a red velvet background with closed eyes and mouth open.[23] The heavy promotion centered around Marilyn's nudity on the already-famous calendar, together with the teasers in marketing, made the new Playboy magazine a success.[24][25] The first issue sold out in weeks. Known circulation was 53, 991.[26] The cover price was 50¢. Copies of the first issue in mint to near-mint condition sold for over $5, 000 in 2002.[citation needed]The novel Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, was published in 1953 and serialized in the March, April and May 1954 issues of Playboy.[27]An urban legend started about Hefner and the Playmate of the Month because of markings on the front covers of the magazine. From 1955 to 1979 (except for a six-month gap in 1976), the "P" in Playboy had stars printed in or around the letter. The legend stated that this was either a rating that Hefner gave to the Playmate according to how attractive she was, the number of times that Hefner had slept with her, or how good she was in bed. The stars, between zero and 12, actually indicated the domestic or international advertising region for that printing.[28]
