Oct 24, 2015 It won't be news to anyone, but the first couple of years worth of Playboy magazines are worth something today. Diane Hunter was one of the early 1950's most popular pinup models, having been featured in several calendars and finally the November 1954 issue of Playboy.While all of the 1954 editions of the magazine are valuable today, November is one of those elusive months and can be. Vintage Life Magazine Collection Lot of (9) Magazines 1983 FREE SHIPPING. Or Best Offer. Free Shipping. Life Magazine 1970 Partial Collection 46 Issues. Or Best Offer +$25.00 shipping. COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE COLLECTION FROM 1950'S UK. Beautiful, well preserved collection of 8(eight).1950's.
I still think this may be some sort of hoax, but last week, Playboy magazine announced that they would no longer be featuring fully naked women in their magazine. In other news, McDonald's announced that they were no longer serving hamburgers, Starbucks will only serve mineral water, will now play the cello and cats are now going to be helpful. Those were all jokes, by the way, but this Playboy news is huge. For decades, Playboy has been known for naked women, and now they've announced that they will no longer provide that product.
It makes perfect sense though. As anyone can point out, every smartphone and computer is just a few clicks away from all kinds of depravity to which Playboy, Hustler and Penthouse can't even come close. Seriously, that's not a joke. While the 'Rules of the Internet' may be a joke, they're true, and none are truer than rule 34 which of course states that if you can think of something, the adult entertainment business has already done it. Back to the point however, with so much free nudity EVERYWHERE, there's almost no point to Playboy having pictures of naked women. Playboy magazines with naked women are a thing of the past, but it will be interesting to see if they can do anything to keep their name different from publications like Maxim. They've suggested that they will continue with interviews and journalism, but focus on including art themes while maintaining an intellectual atmosphere.
In short, they are trying to further modernize the magazine in hopes of attracting young men who live in cities. According to a brief interview with the CEO of Playboy, they want the difference between the readership of their publication and that of Vice is that 'we're going after the guy with the job'.
A half decent zinger dealt to Vice. In honor of Playboy no longer offering nudity, here is a look at editions of the magazine from the last 62 nudity filled years that are worth the most today. Some are actual copies, while others are just for the covers. Different sources will value particular issues and certain covers and such, so if you're an aficionado, feel free to scrutinize my sources as you see fit.
Via:nandhadarkness13.blogspot.com Commonly considered the 'Queen of Pinups', Bettie Page was a favorite of not only young men everywhere in the fifties, but also of, who spoke fondly of her as a model and as a person. Her dark hair and bright blue eyes could potentially make her the 50's equivalent to.
This rare edition of the magazine is generally listed for over $450 online. Some sites have suggested it is worth over $800 however. 8 February and March 1954 - Yvonne Menard (Cover) and Dolores Del Monte. Via:lewiswaynegallery.com/ I listed these two together because they are considered to be worth roughly the same. Yvonne Menard was an actress in the late 40's and early 50's, and graced the cover of the February 1954 edition.
Dolores Del Monte earned some fame as a pinup model in the 1950's and was chosen as the cover model for March 1954. It depends where you look but these editions, if in good condition, are worth anywhere between $1,500 and $2,000. 7 January 1954 - First Dated Issue and First With The Rabbit.
Via:Actress Margie Harrison was the first model to be named 'Playmate of the Month' in the second edition of Playboy, back in January 1954. Because Hugh Hefner didn't see his magazine becoming a huge success yet, he didn't even put a date on the first cover (more on that later). January 1954 was the first to feature a date and the start of the rabbit theme. As you can see, the bunny looked quite a bit different back then.
One of these usually costs between $1,900 and just under $3,000 these days on auction sites. 6 June 1962 - Merissa Mathes. Via:www.ebay.com Merissa Mathes was the cover model and centerfold girl for 1962, as well as the 'Playmate of the Month' for June of that year.
She went on to have a decent film career in the 1960's. Her photoshoot was hot, but the cover, which only featured her 'bikini area', was considered very risque for the time (as you might imagine), and instantly flew off the shelves. A few years ago, one of these magazines sold at auction for almost $4,000. 5 August 1993 - Pamela Anderson and Dan Aykroyd (Original Cover Photo).
Via:popsugar-assets.com Much like the cover featuring Pamela Anderson and Dan Aykroyd, original 2009 cover photo is worth quite a bit. The Hills star appeared in the September edition of that year and the original cover, in which she is covered in mud, with a bunny drawn on her midsection, is estimated to be worth a large total of over $5,000, according to the 'Year of the Rabbit' auction. We're sure her husband, has his own copy of the magazine stored away somewhere safe. 3 November 1993 - Jerry Seinfeld and Various Models (Original Cover Photo). Via:www.digitalspy.com For those born in the last two (three?) decades, was, back in the 80's, what is now, what was five years ago, and what was in the 90's, and so on.
Basically, she was so hot that it hurt. Her first major film was called 10, and is both the name of the film and her rating out of ten.
Don't search the rest of the internet, I'm the first to make that joke. A mint condition original copy of her 1980 cover has sold for over $12,000 at auction before. 1 December 1953 - Marilyn Monroe. Via:amazonaws.com This was the first Playboy ever, and as such, if you didn't see this being the most valuable, I must wonder whether you have been ingesting glue or paint.
The sex icon of her era, and a mistress of President Kennedy, was the first woman to be immortalized in Playboy. There were only 70,000 of the first edition printed, because as I previously noted, Heff didn't think his magazine would take off. While the cover art is worth well over $10,000, a copy of the original magazine is worth between $20,000 and $40,000. TheRichest – Privacy Policy We respect your privacy and we are committed to safeguarding your privacy while online at our site. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site.
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Last month the publishers of Playboy magazine announced that they had decided to stop publishing pictures of fully naked women. This was news to me, as I thought the magazine had long ceased to exist. What is more interesting is that vintage copies of Playboy, those published in the 1950s and 1960s with discreet nudity, have been steadily increasing in value over the past 10 years. Vintage Playboy magazines are hot property for collectors. The very early copies, those from around 1955, are now worth around $100 each, up to a few hundred for the first 10 or so editions. A copy of the first edition, published in December 1953 with Marilyn Monroe on the cover (she's also featured inside as 'Sweetheart of the Month'), can be worth up to $US10,000 ($14,000) depending on its condition.
This edition didn't have a date on the cover because Hugh Hefner, then only 27, wasn't sure if there would be a second edition. In January 2011, a rare surviving copy – with some foxing (age stains) on the cover – sold for $US7040 at a Julien's 'Icons and Idols' auction in California. At time of writing, a 'used' copy was listed for $3000-plus on the Amazon website. August 1957 edition with beach scene. On sale for $130. One of the few places in Australia to find vintage copies of Playboy is at the Nostalgia Factory in the picturesque village of Kangaroo Valley, midway between the South Coast and the Southern Highlands of New South Wales.
Here David Gazzard and his wife Amanda sell the ephemera that David has been hoarding since the late '60s. A few years David set up a kind of retro emporium in the renovated shed behind their main shop, with access through a fragrant rose garden. He began picking up early copies of Playboy in the late '60s when he was a regular visitor to the US. Later he responded to an ad in an American magazine and scored a box of around 50 from one pioneer collector. He's found that quite a few 60-something adults have kept the stack of magazines they hid under the bed as teenagers. Early editions are hard to find here because they were prohibited by Customs, although quite a few copies were brought into the country by the crew of international airlines, who found that Australians were happy to pay two or three times the cover price for a 'bootleg' edition. Marilyn Monroe graced the cover and centerfold of the first edition of Playboy magazine in December 1953.
Gazzard says that those published before 1968-69 are the most in demand today, which fits with Playboy's decision last month. This was before the introduction of full nudity. He stocks only copies published before 1975, with some exceptions. He has a few copies of the first Australian edition (February 1979) published by Kerry Packer's ACP. He says these are not in demand.
Current prices depend largely on condition and the talent featured, both male and female. For example, the December 1959 edition, worth $60 these days, includes stories by Jack Kerouac, Alberto Moravia, Roald Dahl and Max Schulman, all listed prominently on the cover. Yes, people really did buy the magazine for the articles. November 1958 edition featuring Brigitte Bardot on a ski lift.
On sale for $100. For those of us who only looked at the pictures, copies with female celebrities are worth more. The October 1959 features Kim Novak on the cover, worth $80 to a collector. Jayne Mansfield appeared regularly as a centrefold, even after she became an established Hollywood star. Ones with her inside are about $100. Copies from 1954, the first full year of publication, are worth around $200 to $300 each in Australia.
Ones from the 1960s and early 1970s are around $30 to $35. To sell they have to be in good condition and very few are. If the centrefold has been removed, they are worth 50 per cent less. February 1979 (first Australian edition).
On sale for $65. At time of writing, a 'used' copy was listed for $3000-plus on the Amazon website. David Gazzard says he's never seen a copy of the first Marilyn edition for sale in Australia but warns that reproduction copies have been printed recently and these are sometimes offered as the real thing online. He doesn't buy or sell online. He welcomes the recent announcement by Playboy, which he predicts should boost interest in the magazine's early period. At the moment he only sells around 30 copies a year, a small part of his overall turnover, but is predicting greater interest – and higher prices – from now on.