Marge makes Playboy history

Last update: October 9, 2009 - 5:55 PM

Marge is about to do something Homer might not approve of.

Playboy magazine is turning over its cover to the matriarch of Springfield's first family: Marge Simpson.

It's a first for the magazine, which has had everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Cindy Crawford to the Girls of Hooters and even the likes of Jerry Seinfeld on the cover. But it's never had a cartoon character before.

Marge and her pile of bright blue hair are set to grace the cover of the November issue of Playboy. It will hit the newsstands Friday.

Marge isn't going to bare all, though, as the magazine says there will only be "implied nudity" in the three-page pictorial.

New CEO Scott Flanders says the idea is to attract readers in their 20s to a magazine with an average reader age of 35.

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