A friend of mine is looking for a reprinting in Playboy magazine of the story "A Sound of Thunder." Not the original appearance in June 1956, but he remembers a later printing, possibly in the early 1970's, which he says featured a stunning two-page illustration of the tyrannosaurus and the path. I have searched the internet to no avail. Does anyone remember the month and year of this issue? I would love to find it for him.
Thank you very much for any help or information anyone can give me.
IFSDB probably only lists first appearances: Sound of Thunder's first appearance was in Collier's in 1952, with a double-page illo by Frederick Siebel.
The story DID appear in Playboy in June 1956, with a colour double-page illo by Franz Altshuler. It is reproduced in Jerry Weist's book Ray Bradbury: An Illustrated Life, p.45. I don't know of any later Playboy appearances.
When I get the time, I will scan both illustrations and post them here.
Actually, I got a bit carried away and started studying lots of "A Sound of Thunder" imagery - I've posted the Collier's, Playboy and other illustrations on my web page.
Oh man... I've always thought the ISFDB was "The Final Word", "The Ultimate Authority", "The Source", dang... this is like when I found out there was no Belly Button Lint Fairy.
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"Years from now we want to go into the pub and tell about the Terrible Conflagration up at the Place, do we not?"
ISFDB is prety good, but it's not flawless. I just used the advanced search feature to see if it knows about Playboy: it does, but the information looks a bit patchy. (Do a search for Planet Stories, or anything more disctinctively science-fiction-ish, and you get better results.)
I've spent enough time collating info from different sources when putting together my Bradbury bibliographies to know that there are no infallible sources.
