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A Sound of Thunder appearance in Playboy magazine

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06 January 2007, 07:34 PM
bluedomino
A Sound of Thunder appearance in Playboy magazine
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.
07 January 2007, 12:10 AM
dandelion
A couple of sources say January 1989, but I can't find it in tables of contents for that issue.
07 January 2007, 01:49 AM
grasstains
I don't see it ever being in PLAYBOY.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?61488

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07 January 2007, 02:58 AM
philnic
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.


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07 January 2007, 08:41 AM
philnic
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.


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07 January 2007, 10:48 PM
dandelion
Great, Phil! Now they can look and see if it's the one they're after!
10 January 2007, 01:23 AM
grasstains
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?"
10 January 2007, 05:51 AM
philnic
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.


- Phil

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10 January 2007, 10:35 AM
dandelion
Donn Albright is the closest to infallible you'll see in this life.