Complete first issue of Playboy magazine, Volume I, No. 1, released in December 1953, 42 pages with third page numbered, 8.5 x 11, featuring Marilyn Monroe on the cover. This variation of the first issue lacks a page number on the third page. When magazines that did not sell on the news stand were sent back to the distributor, the cover was torn to indicate it as a “distributor’s return”; this copy has the masthead torn off in this manner. In very good condition, with aforementioned missing upper portion of cover. This is not only the first issue of Playboy ever produced, but also contains a pair of classic images of an American icon—Marilyn Monroe graces both the front cover and full-color nude inside. A sought-after edition of this American classic.
