while the owners of "archie" had taken offense, the owner of "playboy" did not. hugh hefner, a fan of kurtzman and "goodman beaver", commissioned kurtzman and elder to create a similar but more lavish strip for "playboy". the result was "little annie fanny". like goodman beaver, little annie fanny was a pure-of-heart innocent; unlike him, she was regularly divested of her clothing. the annie fanny series (107 stories in all) was irregularly published in the back of "playboy" for more than a quarter of a century from october 1962 through september 1988. in 2001, dark horse comics published the trade paperback collections "playboy's little annie fanny, volume 1" () and "playboy's little annie fanny, volume 2: 1970–1988" ().