Playboy Playmate as a "former" Playmate because "Once a Playmate, always a Playmate". Marilyn Monroe, who was featured in the first issue, was the only one to appear as "Sweetheart of the Month." The first model called a Playmate of the Month was Margie Harrison, Miss January 1954, in the second issue of "Playboy". Generally a woman may appear only once as a Playmate, but in the early years of the magazine, some models were featured multiple times. Marilyn Waltz (February 1954, April 1954, April 1955 her first appearance was as Margaret Scott) and Janet Pilgrim (July 1955, December 1955, and October
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