The long-suffering wife of Homer follows in the footsteps of Marilyn Monroe, Cindy Crawford and Pamela Anderson, as she is pictured behind a signature Playboy Bunny Chair on the November issue
The magazine, which also carries an interview titled 'The Devil In Marge Simpson", as well as another three pages of pictures, is in honour of the 20th anniversary of the The Simpsons.
Despite being on the front cover, Marge will not be totally bare, with the magazine only featuring "implied nudity".
Scott Flanders, Playboy's new CEO, said the idea is to attract readers in their 20s to the magazine, which has an average reader's age of 35.
He told The Chicago Sun-Times that the cover-shoot is: "obviously somewhat tongue-in-cheek. It had never been done, and we thought it would be kind of hip, cool and unusual."
The Simpsons, featuring dysfunctional family Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as an array of colourful characters, began its 21st season in the US last month after debuting in 1989. It has just been renewed for another two years, after which it will become America's longest-running prime time TV show ever. It has won 24 Emmys and is the longest running animated series on prime time. A full-length feature film in 2007 made more than $527 million worldwide.
