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Playboy Magazine Collection w/Marilyn Monroe Foldout

  Lot # 046
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Lot # 046
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 11 Issues of Playboy Magazine to include the 1970 Issue of The Best of Playboy Number Four which includes the Marilyn Monroe Foldout From Playboy's First Issue, November & December 1989, 7 Issues from 1990 to include March Issue with Trump on Front Cover, 2 Issues from 1991 and March Issue of 2001. The pinup of Marilyn has been photoshopped to prevent nudity for our underage visitors. 

 The iconic blonde bombshell, Norma Jeane Mortenson never actually posed for the magazine at all.  In 1949, a cash-strapped, jobless Monroe posed nude for pinup photographer Tom Kelley in exchange for the $50 she needed to make a car payment. Kelley eventually sold the photos for $900 to the Western Lithograph Co. Hugh Hefner purchased the rights to Monroe’s nude photos in fall 1953 for a reported $500. When the late Hugh Hefner used "the famous Marilyn Monroe nude" to launch the men's lifestyle and entertainment glossy and his storied Playboy brand as a whole in 1953, Monroe hadn't consented to the then-four-year-old images' use, nor had Hefner directly paid her a dime. Marilyn was never paid more than her original $50 paycheck from Kelley and went on to claim that she "even had to buy a copy of the magazine to see myself in it."