Rogue (magazine) no four-color reproduction, or full-page cartoons, and certainly no centerfold. Hamling was the editor and publisher, his wife, Frances, was executive editor; and Frank M. Robinson was the first managing editor. Henry Botts, a friend of Hamling's, became the first associate editor. Lead fiction was by a hot science fiction author, Harlan Ellison who became associate editor with the third issue (April 1956). The first issue of "Rogue" was published in November 1955, with a December release date. Following Hefner's successful lead with the first issue of "Playboy", that first issue of "Rogue" contained "A New Aspect of Marilyn Monroe,"
The Playboy a "sense of improvising" as he did not script it out beforehand. The serialization appeared under the title "Disgust" in issues 21–23 of "Yummy Fur", at the time published by Vortex Comics. With the twenty-fifth issue of "Yummy Fur" in 1991, Brown switched publishers to the Montreal-based Drawn and Quarterly, who published a collected and revised edition of "The Playboy" in 1992; this was the first graphic novel from the publisher. Brown rescripted, relettered, and reformatted the book for an annotated edition in 2013, also from Drawn and Quarterly. The story gained praise from fans, critics, and other cartoonists, and