Playboy

The men`s magazine Playboy originally comes from the United States. There will be
has shown many attractive women with sex appeal, which is reflected in his articles
busy with a wide variety of lifestyle topics. It is now used in more than 20 countries in the
published monthly in the respective national language with its own content.

In December 1953 the first issue of the magazine
appeared in the United States Playboy, with Marilyn Monroe revealing herself quite revealingly for the first time on a fold-out sheet
showed. Of the 70,000 copies sold, 54,175 were sold for $0.50 each.

Designer Arthur Paul created the bunny logo with the bow tie for the second issue.
Since then, the logo has been printed on every US edition.
The men`s magazine has a circulation of over 3 million copies in the United States,
to which the respective country editions with a total of 4.5 million copies are added.
The magazine was initially to be called Stag Party, which means "gentlemen`s evening,"
but was not feasible for trademark reasons. Hugh Hefner, a friend of the
The publisher then suggested that the magazine be called Playboy.

The first issue was published in Germany on August 1, 1972. Since 2003 the magazine has been published by
Hubert Burda Media (previously it was the Bauer publishing group).