Hugh Hefner obtained the image (titled 'Golden Dreams') for his magazine's first centerfold, which was called 'Sweetheart of the Month' rather than Playmate. Meanwhile, Monroe's career flourished: 1950 saw the release of The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve, and she was on her way. Kelley didn't get much more for the pictures when he sold them to the Western Lithograph Company, which offered the image on a calendar. Marilyn Monroe was flat broke when, in 1949, she posed nude for photographer Tom Kelley for fifty bucks. The theory gained a surprising amount of traction-surprising in that it's so batshit wingnutty that any traction was surprising. Rucka wrote: 'Do you really think it's a coincidence that Playboy chose this year, the issue for the month containing 'Tsunami Tuesday,' to run this particular pictorial? Do you really?' But perhaps the most bizarre reaction came from comics writer Greg Rucka, who wrote a post on his LiveJournal blog (since deleted) that called out the cover as an attempt to torpedo Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions. magazine in 1972 so some feminists saw the Playboy cover as an attack on 30 years of feminism. Wonder Woman had appeared on the first cover of Gloria Steinem's Ms. (She was, after all, created by S&M enthusiast William Moulton Brown, which explains the lasso as well.)

Riiiight, and her hot pants and bustier are in no way intended to appeal to grown men. According to some of the aggrieved, bespoiling Wonder Woman is bespoiling a heroine to little girls everywhere. That's Playmate of the Year Tiffany Fallon bodypainted as Wonder Woman, an image that sent feminist comic book fans into a rage.

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