Rogue (magazine) 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 calendar photo of Marilyn Monroe being reused to its best advantage. About "Playboy" and Hugh Hefner, Hamling states in a letter to his friend, and lawyer, Stanley Fleishman: "I remember my
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