Marge Simpson a Playboy first

(NECN) – After over 50 years of featuring women like Marilyn Monroe, Cindy Crawford and others on its cover, Playboy magazine has for the first time adorned its cover with the image of a cartoon character — Marge Simpson. The magazine is getting creative with this endeavor, giving The Simpsons star her own data sheet, an interview and a 2-page centerfold. Playboy has not spilled the beans on how much of Marge will appear in the November edition, which will arrive on news stands on October 16th. For Playboy, which has seen its circulation slip from 3.15 million to 2.6 million since 2006, putting Marge on the cover was designed to attract younger readers to a magazine where the median age of readers is 35, while not alienating older readers. “We knew that this would really appeal to the 20-something crowd,” said Playboy spokeswoman Theresa Hennessey. Footage courtesy of 20th Century Fox. Material from The Associated Press used in this report.