vintage playboy ad of the day
The unmistakable art of Jack Davis highlights today's ad pick. Contrast the depiction of the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem with the off-kilter characters around them that walked out of Davis casting central. Seeing Davis's work is often comforting, thanks to the toxic amount of Mad books and magazines I read in my teens, along with all of the covers, movie posters and advertisements he has worked on through the years. A sidebar depicted other Columbia releases of the time, including albums from Johnny Cash ( Orange Blossom Special ) and Thelonious Monk ( Monk ). Here's a clip of the group performing on The Ed Sullivan Show around the time this ad would have appeared on newsstands in 1965. Also in this issue: The first excerpt of Ian Fleming's The Man With the Golden Gun . Fleming had promised Playboy the pre-publication serialization rights shortly before his death in August 1964, having been satisfied with the magazine's previous handling of...