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Born in Chicago in 1926, Hugh Hefner was a young man with big dreams by the early 1950s. In 1953, with limited funds borrowed from friends, Hefner launched Playboy magazine from his modest apartment. The magazine’s debut issue, featuring Marilyn Monroe on the cover, sold over 50,000 copies—an astonishing feat that paved the way for a new era of provocative yet high-quality publications.