If Playboy hadn't been around, no one would know who "James Bond" or Ian Fleming was.
My first intro to Shel was his cartoons in PB. It was years before I knew he wrote some of my favorite songs.
The only "picture" I remember (vaguely) is the one ca. 1960 that happened to look exactly like my first wife. (I think her sister mentioned it out to me, so I actually bought the mag to see if it was true.) I suppose they're both all saggy and wrinkled by now.