Playboy and mother. However, the publisher of an unrelated men's adventure magazine, "Stag," contacted Hefner and informed him it would file suit to protect their trademark if he were to launch his magazine with that name. Hefner, his wife Millie, and Sellers met to seek a new name, considering "Top Hat", "Gentleman", "Sir'", "Satyr", "Pan" and "Bachelor" before Sellers suggested "Playboy". The first issue, in December 1953, was undated, as Hefner was unsure there would be a second. He produced it in his Hyde Park kitchen. The first centerfold was Marilyn Monroe, although the picture used originally was taken for a
Humbug (magazine) reprinted February 2008 in a two-volume slipcased edition by Fantagraphics Books. It includes annotations by John Benson, a lengthy 2005 interview with Arnold Roth and Al Jaffee, plus a four-page explanation of exactly how restoration of the magazine was accomplished by Fantagraphics. Hugh Hefner, who had published "Trump", provided "those strange ones" at "Humbug" a nine-page feature in "Playboy"s December 1957 issue. Underground cartoonist Robert Crumb said that the elaborate Davis–Elder cover to the second issue of "Humbug" "changed his life". In 1958 Crumb and his brother Charles self-published three issues of "Foo" in imitation of "Humbug" and "Mad". Crumb