Playboy comic books graded by CGC

1st printing. The scintillating cartoon works of Doug Sneyd, an artist for Playboy magazine since the early 1960s, return to print in this stunning softcover art book. Readers will be charmed by these most deliciously hilarious of Doug's full-page cartoons featuring the lovely Sneyd girls and the one-line jokes they so ably illustrate! Softcover, 9-in. x 12-in., 248 pages, full color. Mature Readers Cover price $19.99.

1st printing. "An Orgy of Playboy's Eldon Dedini!" Eldon Dedini has been one of Playboy's most recognizable full-page gag cartoonists. With a masterful watercolor technique that burlesques a broad range of subjects, from East and West Coast urban and suburban adult-hipster to classical Japanese erotic prints, Dedini's most personal cartoons rely on mythology and legend. They evoke a bucolic sexually-liberated paradise that leaves his readers lingering over the imagery long after the gag registers. The Art of Playboy's Eldon Dedini is the first retrospective collection of his work, and gathers in one volume the most sophisticated, elegant, and funny gag panels of the past six decades. Hardcover, 8 3/4-in. X 11 1/2-in., 242 pages, full color (some B&W). MATURE READERS Cover price $39.95.

Volume 1 -1964. "Very Late in the Evening" by Ray Bradbury, "Trouble in Makeousville" by Herbert Gold, "Chaplin" by Charles Beaumont, "The Right Approach" by P.G. Wodehouse. Jules Feiffer's "The Oddball" a six-page color comic story. Interview with Miles Davis. Complete Jayne Mansfield. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 192 pages, full color. MATURE READERS Cover price $2.50.

Volume 2 - 1968. Little Annie Fanny by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. "The Hildebrand Rarity" by Ian Fleming, "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury, "Machina Ex Deux" by Arthur C. Clarke, "The Hustler" by Walter Tevis. Henry Miller interview. Classic Cars of the '30s by Ken Purdy, illustrated by Jerome Biederman. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 192 pages, full color. MATURE READERS Cover price $2.50.

Volume 3 - 1969. "Beyond Gravity" by Arthur C. Clarke, interview with Martin Luther King, "Elimination Day" by Henry Slesar, "Sardonicus" by Ray Russell, Little Annie Fanny by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 192 pages. MATURE READERS Cover price $2.50.

Volume 4 - 1970. Interview with Fidel Castro. "An Actor's Life for Me" by Philip Roth, Jules Feiffer's "The Advocate" three-page comic strip, "Old Man Pulaski and the Infamous Jawbreaker Blackmail" by Jean Shepherd, "Naked Nude" by Bernard Malamud, Gahan Willson's Mother Goose, Little Annie Fanny by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. "Remembering Marilyn" complete with the first issue centerfold. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 192 pages, full color. MATURE READERS Cover price $2.50.

Volume 5 - 1971. Fiction by Henry Slesar, John Cheever and William F. Nolan. Little Annie Fanny by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. Vargas article on his art from the 1920s to 1970s, heavily illustrated including a fold-out. Norman Mailer interview. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 196 pages, full color. MATURE READERS Cover price $2.50.

Volume 6 - 1972. "The Lost City of Mars" by Ray Bradbury, "The Crazy One" by Norman Mailer, "Turn Left at Mata Hari" by Ray Russell, "The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be" by Gahan Wilson, "Hostileman" by Jules Feiffer. Interview with Ralph Nader. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 196 pages, full color. MATURE READERS Cover price $2.50.

Volume 7 - 1973. "Nine Lives" by Ursula K. LeGuin, "Love, Dad" by Joseph Heller, "The Case of the Warbling Cuckold" by Jean Shepard, "And I Mean That Sincerely" by Ray Russell, "The Flashlight" by Eldridge Cleaver, "The Good, The Bad and the Garlic" by Harvey Kurtzman, "The Old Neighborhood" by Henry Miller. Gahan Wilson collection of cartoons entitled "Have a Heart" and Little Annie Fanny by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. Interview with Mae West. "Epigrams from the Greek Anthology" illustrated by Brad Holland. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 196 pages, full color. MATURE READERS Cover price $2.50.

Volume 8 - 1975. "From Stonehenge to Tranquillity Base" by Ray Bradbury, interview with Sam Peckinpah, Little Annie Fanny by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 144 pages, full color. MATURE READERS Cover price $2.75.

Volume 8 - 1975, alternate format and cover, same contents otherwise. "From Stonehenge to Tranquillity Base" by Ray Bradbury, interview with Sam Peckinpah, Little Annie Fanny by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. Saddle-stitched, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 144 pages, full color. MATURE READERS Cover price $2.95.

Volume 9 - 1982. "Astral Projection and the Horse That Could Count" by Carl Sagan, interview with Al Pacino, "The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol" by Philip Jose Farmer, "My Night at Plato's Retreat" by Buck Henry, "The Faint" by John Updike and Little Annie Fanny by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 144 pages, full color. MATURE READERS Cover price $3.95.

Volume 10 - 1983. "The Apotheosis of Myra" by Walter Tevis, "Carny" by Harry Crews, interview with Steve Martin, "Heart Transplant" by Ray Bradbury, Little Annie Fanny by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder, Moonshine McJuggs by Frank Thorne. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 144 pages, full color. MATURE READERS Cover price $3.95.

1st printing. By Wendy and Richard Pini. The Holt was forest haven for persecuted elves - wanderers from another world - until it was invaded and destroyed. Now a small band of Wolfriders searches for some spot of land not contaminated by humans - some place where legends say other elves live in peace. If there are any other surviving elves... Thus begins the Elfquest! Softcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8-in., 320 pages, Text (with B&W Chapter Illustrations). Cover price $5.95.

1st printing - 3 Volumes (with Slipcase). OVER ONE THOUSAND CARTOONS SPANNING 50 YEARS OF A LEGENDARY CAREER! Fifty-one, to be exact, but let's not quibble. Gahan Wilson is among the most popular, widely-read, and beloved cartoonists in the history of the medium, whose career spans the 2nd half of the 20th century, and all of the 21st. His work has been seen by millions -no, hundreds of millions- in the pages of Playboy, The New Yorker, Punch, The National Lampoon, and many other magazines; there is no telling, really, how many readers he has corrupted or comforted. He is revered for his playfully sinister take on childhood, adulthood, men, women, and monsters. His brand of humor makes you laugh until you cry. And it's about time that a collection of his cartoons was published that did justice to his vast body of work. When Gahan Wilson walked into Hugh Hefner's office in 1957, he sat down as Hefner was on the phone, gently rejecting a submission to his new gentlemen's magazine: "I think it's very well-written and I liked it very much," Hefner reportedly said, "but it's anti-sin. And I'm afraid we're pro-sin." Wilson knew, at that moment, that he had found a kindred spirit and a potential home for his cartoons. And indeed he had; Wilson appeared in every issue of Playboy from the December 1957 issue to today. It has been one of the most fruitful, successful, and long-lived relationships between a contributor and a magazine, ever. Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons features not only every cartoon Wilson drew for Playboy, but all his prose fiction that has appeared in that magazine as well, from his first story in the June, 1962 issue, "Horror Trio," to such classics as "Dracula Country" (September 1978). It also includes the text-and-art features he drew for Playboy, such as his look at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, his take on our country's "pathology of violence," and his appreciation of "transplant surgery." Wilson's notoriously black sense of comedy is on display throughout the book, leaving no sacred cow unturned (an image curiously absent in the book), ridiculing everything from state sponsored executions to the sober precincts of the nouveau rich, from teenage dating to police line-ups, with scalding and hilarious satirical jabs. Although Wilson is known as an artist who relishes the creepy side of modern life, this three-volume set truly demonstrates the depth and breadth of his range - from illustrating private angst we never knew we had (when you eat a steak, just whom are you eating?) to the ironic and deadpan take on horrifying public issues (ecological disaster, nuclear destruction anyone?). Gahan Wilson has been peeling back the troubling layers of modern life with his incongruously playful and unnerving cartoons, assailing our deepest fears and our most inane follies. This three-volume set is a testament to one of the funniest - and wickedly disturbing - cartoonists alive. GAHAN WILSON was born in 1930 in Evanston, IL and lives in New York City. Hardcover (3 Volumes with Slipcase), 8-in. x 10 1/2-in., 1,056 pages, B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $125.00.

1st printing. NOTE: The Limited Edition (B) includes a signed and numbered, two-color letterpress print and a box set of reproduction Christmas illustrations sent from Gahan Wilson to Hugh Hefner. Limited to 300 copies - OVER ONE THOUSAND CARTOONS SPANNING 50 YEARS OF A LEGENDARY CAREER! Fifty-one, to be exact, but let's not quibble. Gahan Wilson is among the most popular, widely-read, and beloved cartoonists in the history of the medium, whose career spans the 2nd half of the 20th century, and all of the 21st. His work has been seen by millions -no, hundreds of millions- in the pages of Playboy, The New Yorker, Punch, The National Lampoon, and many other magazines; there is no telling, really, how many readers he has corrupted or comforted. He is revered for his playfully sinister take on childhood, adulthood, men, women, and monsters. His brand of humor makes you laugh until you cry. And it's about time that a collection of his cartoons was published that did justice to his vast body of work. When Gahan Wilson walked into Hugh Hefner's office in 1957, he sat down as Hefner was on the phone, gently rejecting a submission to his new gentlemen's magazine: "I think it's very well-written and I liked it very much," Hefner reportedly said, "but it's anti-sin. And I'm afraid we're pro-sin." Wilson knew, at that moment, that he had found a kindred spirit and a potential home for his cartoons. And indeed he had; Wilson appeared in every issue of Playboy from the December 1957 issue to today. It has been one of the most fruitful, successful, and long-lived relationships between a contributor and a magazine, ever. Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons features not only every cartoon Wilson drew for Playboy, but all his prose fiction that has appeared in that magazine as well, from his first story in the June, 1962 issue, "Horror Trio," to such classics as "Dracula Country" (September 1978). It also includes the text-and-art features he drew for Playboy, such as his look at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, his take on our country's "pathology of violence," and his appreciation of "transplant surgery." Wilson's notoriously black sense of comedy is on display throughout the book, leaving no sacred cow unturned (an image curiously absent in the book), ridiculing everything from state sponsored executions to the sober precincts of the nouveau rich, from teenage dating to police line-ups, with scalding and hilarious satirical jabs. Although Wilson is known as an artist who relishes the creepy side of modern life, this three-volume set truly demonstrates the depth and breadth of his range - from illustrating private angst we never knew we had (when you eat a steak, just whom are you eating?) to the ironic and deadpan take on horrifying public issues (ecological disaster, nuclear destruction anyone?). Gahan Wilson has been peeling back the troubling layers of modern life with his incongruously playful and unnerving cartoons, assailing our deepest fears and our most inane follies. This three-volume set is a testament to one of the funniest - and wickedly disturbing - cartoonists alive. GAHAN WILSON was born in 1930 in Evanston, IL and lives in New York City. Hardcover, 1,056 pages, B&W. Mature Readers NOTE: The Limited Edition (B) includes a signed and numbered, two-color letterpress print and a box set of reproduction Christmas illustrations sent from Gahan Wilson to Hugh Hefner. Limited to 300 copies Cover price $175.00.

Harvard Lampoon parody of Playboy, complete with an Ian Fleming spoof, a sendup of Jules Feiffer and Little Orphan Annie, even some terrific Gahan Wilson imitation cartoons. Extremely well done and you have to look hard to see this isn't a real issue. 8 1/4-in. x 11-in., 102 pages, full color. Mature readers. Cover price $1.25.

1956. Group of eight different cocktail napkins illustrated by Jack Cole (Plastic Man). Soft paper with embossed designed. Published by Playboy. Each measures 4.5" x 4.5". Black and white.