30 Memorable Years
January, 1984
Playboy is often its own media event. Beginning with our first issue, we seem to have something of an art of making news. That first issue--which came out in December 1953 without a cover date, because Hugh Hefner wasn't sure there would be a second issue--created an instant commotion. For more than a year, a rumor had been spreading that Marilyn Monroe had posed for a girlie calendar in 1949. Everybody knew about Marilyn--she had been a hit in The Asphalt Jungle--but few had actually seen the c...
