May 2018 – Vintage Magazine Shoppe

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor commonly know as Liz Taylor was born February 27, 1932 and passed away March 23, 2011, age 79. Liz Taylor began her career in 1941 with a role in There’s One Born Every Minute, Taylor was cast in her first starring role at the age of 12, in National Velvet. Her career continued through the 1950s into the 1960s, and she remained in the public eye for the rest of her life. In 1999 she was named the seventh-greatest female screen legend by the American Film Institute.

Liz Taylor was on the cover of LIFE more times then any other woman during her lifetime. A total of 14 times and and a commemorative issue the year she died. As an aside the person who has appeared on the cover of LIFE magazine the most is former President Richard Nixon a total of 48 times. According to a internet search the woman that has appeared most often is the Virgin Mary. I was unable to confirm this nor find out the number of covers. A history of LIFE magazine can be found here.

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July 14, 1947

October 15, 1956

November 4, 1957

April 28, 1961

October 6, 1961

April 19, 1963

December 18, 1964

June 10, 1966

February 24, 1967

January 25, 1972

March 1982

February 1992

April 1997

Commemorative 2011

You thought we missed one but we are saving the best for last. The April 13, 1962 magazine with Liz and Rich on the cover happens to be the most expensive LIFE magazine of all their 1,934 weeklies 11/23 /1936 to 12/31/1972 issues from a collectors standpoint. It was published around “opening day” of baseball and there was a historic baseball theme to the magazine. What makes this issue of LIFE Magazine so valuable is a Post cereals advertisement… IF it contains an insert with baseball cards featuring all-time greats Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris it’s worth $300.00… why? Because 90% of the time the Inserts were removed by young family members, collectors, or baseball fans.

April 13, 1962

Post cereals advertisement

Mickey Mantle

Roger Maris

Playboy is an American men’s entertainment magazine that was founded by Hugh Hefner October 1, 1953 in Chicago. The magazine has become known for its centerfolds of nude and semi-nude models called Playmates. In addition to the magazine published in the United States, it is circulated worldwide. Though today most of the companies revenue comes from marketing their brand on clothing and accessories. The magazine stopped publishing nudity April 2016 but changed directions a year later and brought it back in the March/April 2017 issue.

Playboy has a history of publishing short stories by well known authors such as Arthur C. Clarke, Ian Fleming, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Chuck Palahniuk, P. G. Wodehouse, Roald Dahl, Haruki Murakami, and Margaret Atwood. The magazine also features interviews with notable individual. It was also known for its full-page color cartoons, by Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Cole, Eldon Dedini, Jules Feiffer, Shel Silverstein, Erich Sokol, Roy Raymonde, Gahan Wilson, and Rowland B. Wilson.

A fun fact: Playboy started being printed in braille in 1970. Congress cut the funding for it in 1985, but U.S. District Court reversed the decision on First Amendment grounds. See people do read the articles…

The Playboy rabbit created by Art Director Art Paul appeared in the second issue and was later adopted as the official logo. The logo is worked into the cover in some way. Below we have eight cover images, at times the rabbit is easy to spot. Other times it is hidden in the crease of a dress or the hair of a model. A sort of adult version of Where’s Waldo.

The image of the Playboy March 1992 cover is not clear enough to find the logo. It is in the lower lense of her opera glasses. On the other covers the logo can be seen.

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