William Hamling (publisher) of five." The Greenleaf Publishing Company initially published science fiction magazines and a spectrum of similar publications, and it was not until November 1955 that Greenleaf published the first issue of "Rogue" (although it had a cover date of December), a magazine which was competitive with "Playboy", a magazine dealing with sex which had been published for about two years at this time. In 1953, as a solo and unidentified effort, Hugh Hefner's "Playboy" V1#1 appeared without a date late in the year [November]. It was an almost immediate success with that wonderful calendar photo of Marilyn Monroe being reused
Playboy (Brazil) Playboy (Brazil) The Brazilian edition of "Playboy" is a local franchise of "Playboy" magazine. Established in 1975 by Editora Abril, it was only the fourth overall international version of the magazine, following Germany, Italy and France. When Editora Abril founder Victor Civita asked his son Roberto Civita to drop his job at the Tokyo offices of "Time" in 1958 to instead join him at Abril, Roberto accepted on the condition that he could create three new publications: a "Time"-like weekly news magazine ("Veja"), a "Fortune"-like business magazine ("Exame"), and the last of those to get into print, a local issue