The last Playboy Christmas postings, for this year

Happy Holidays. That's all from the winter Playboys for this year. December 1962
Eldon Dedini

December 1963
Claude Smith

December 1965
Dedini, John Dempsey

Alden Erikson, Dink Siegel, Gahan Wilson

December 1961

Another Little Annie Fanny story by Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, and Russ Heath. If you ever get to meet the latter, he will tell you how working on this strip ended up with his living in the Playboy mansion.

The Little World of Harvey Kurtzman

Here's an article from the December 1957 Playboy. I guess publisher Hugh Hefner felt bad about giving Harvey Kurtzman carte blanche to do the magazine of his dreams only to pull the rug out from him after two issues. The article tells a bit about him and his group of creators.

The painting by Bill Elder on this first page was intended for a never-published third issue of Trump.

I almost never post text-only pieces but I'll make an exception here since it's a profile of Kurtzman. It's taken from a computer file so I can't rescan it. Hopefully you're able to read the print.

Wallace Wood

Arnold Roth and Ed Fisher in Trump

Next two pages, also in Trump, by Jack Davis

To round things out, here's a one-pager by Howard Schneider.

And a double page spread of an old joke illustrated by Al Stine

POW! #1, 2 of 3

The second part of POW! from July 1966. The first part is here.

Don Orehek

Bill Ward.

The Hustler is referenced.

Joe Sinnott. Originally titled Zany Inventions and in Zany.

Centerfold by John Severin from Cracked

Russ Heath

Cracked #6, 1 of 3

Here is the first part of the 6th issue of Cracked from December 1958.

The cover is by Russ Heath

Two-pager by Bill Elder. The chicken-fat must have cost extra.

John Severin didn't do almost every page when the magazine first started, but he did do a lot, such as this.

Bill Ward