Here's an article from the December 1957
Playboy. I guess publisher
Hugh Hefner felt bad about giving
Harvey Kurtzman carte blanche to do
the magazine of his dreams only to pull the rug out from him after two issues. The article tells a bit about him and his group of creators.
The painting by
Bill Elder on this first page was intended for a never-published third issue of
Trump.
I almost never post text-only pieces but I'll make an exception here since it's a profile of Kurtzman. It's taken from a computer file so I can't rescan it. Hopefully you're able to read the print.
Wallace Wood
Arnold Roth and
Ed Fisher in
Trump
Next two pages, also in
Trump, by
Jack Davis
To round things out, here's a one-pager by
Howard Schneider.
And a double page spread of an old joke illustrated by
Al Stine
