But yeah, only reading these vintage Playboys for those articles. My favorite is Gone in October, by John Clellon Holmes (not Johnny Wad, you creeps), you know, author of the first real Beat Novel, Go. It's about Kerouac's funeral, real sad and nostalgic, bittersweet as heck. Got the first publication of Hunter Thompson's The Great Shark Hunt. Yeah. Big great interviews with the likes of Mel Brooks, Bob Dylan, Francis Ford Coppolla, lots of killer Little Annie Fannie strips by legendary EC alums Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, and Jack Davis.
Playboy was tame, man. For every 100+page issue, their was maybe eight, ten pages of tasteful nudes, nothing like the bottom-feeding scum you find on this internet doohickey. But yeah, Hugh Hefner was kinda a D-bag.