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Playboy [v1 #10, September 1954] (quarto) []

6 · Black Country · Charles Beaumont · nv

22 · Roll Out the Rolov! · Harry C. Crosby · ss Imagination November 1953

Playboy [v1 #11, October 1954] (quarto) []

6 · Appearance and Reality · William Somerset Maugham · ss Cosmopolitan November 1934

29 · Old West · Jack F. West · ss

Playboy [v1 #12, November 1954] (quarto) []

7 · The Persistant Nude · Ernest Leogrande · ss

30 · August Afternoon · Erskine Caldwell · ss Esquire Autumn 1933

Playboy [v2 #1, December 1954] (quarto) []

7 · I’m Yours · Charles Schafhauser · ss

Playboy [v2 #2, January 1955] (quarto) []

6 · The Concrete Mixer · Ray Bradbury · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories April 1949

10 · Carnival · Erskine Caldwell · ss Mid-Week Pictorial October 24 1936

13 · The Ears of Johnny Bear · John Steinbeck · ss Esquire September 1937

Playboy [v2 #3, February 1955] (quarto) []

6 · A Change of Air · Ivan Gold · nv New World Writing #4, Mentor, 1953

17 · The Most Horrible Story in the World · John W. Jakes · ss Imagination January 1952, as “The Most Horrible Story”

Playboy [v2 #4, April 1955] (quarto) []

6 · The Hunger · Charles Beaumont · ss

36 · A Tithe for Charity [Ukridge] · P. G. Wodehouse · ss

Playboy [v2 #5, May 1955] (quarto) []

6 · The Eighty-Yard Run · Irwin Shaw · ss Esquire January 1941

23 · Naked Lady · Mindret Lord · ss Weird Tales September 1934

· The Murder of Conan Doyle · Ray Russell · ss

Playboy [v2 #6, June 1955] (quarto) []

6 · In the Cards · John Collier · ss Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier, Doubleday, 1951

13 · Successful Love · Delmore Schwartz · nv The Avon Book of Modern Writing No. 2 ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1954

Playboy [v2 #7, July 1955] (quarto) []

7 · Legend of the Crooked Coronet [Michael Wagstaffe] · Michael Arlen · ss The Strand Magazine December 1934, as “The Crooked Coronet”

16 · Uncle Fred Flits By [Uncle Fred; Pongo Twistleton] · P. G. Wodehouse · nv Redbook Magazine July 1935

23 · A Steady, High-type Fellow · Herbert Gold · ss

Playboy [v2 #8, August 1955] (quarto) []

6 · The Crooked Man · Charles Beaumont · ss

Playboy [v2 #9, September 1955] (quarto) []

6 · The Closed Shop · William Somerset Maugham · vi Harper’s Bazar September 1926

13 · Spy Story · Robert Sheckley · ss

25 · Mating Season · Charles Lee Robinson · ss

Playboy [v2 #10, October 1955] (quarto) []

25 · The King · James Jones · ss

37 · The Taming of the Rake · Anson Mount · ss

Playboy [v2 #11, November 1955] (quarto) []

10 · Burnt Toast · Mack Reynolds · ss

25 · All Married Women Are Bad, Yes? · Herbert Gold · ss

37 · Zip-Gun Boys on a Caper · Robert Turner · ss

Playboy [v2 #12, December 1955] (quarto) []
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· A Classic Affair · Charles Beaumont · ss

15 · The Next in Line · Ray Bradbury · nv Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury, Arkham House, 1947

Playboy [v3 #1, January 1956] (quarto) []

10 · Advice About Women · Erskine Caldwell · ss

20 · Last Will and Testament · Rex Fabian · ss

33 · I Like Blondes · Robert Bloch · ss

41 · Love, the Healer · Herbert Gold · ss

Playboy [v3 #2, February 1956] (quarto) []

10 · The Crack of Doom · Don Marquis · ss Collier’s September 6 1930

29 · Mary · John Collier · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2725, July 1939

Playboy [v3 #3, March 1956] (quarto) []

12 · Couching at the Door · D. K. Broster · nv The Cornhill Magazine December 1933

17 · The First Night of Lent · Ray Bradbury · ss

47 · The Psychodynamist · Herbert Gold · ss

Playboy [v3 #4, April 1956] (quarto) []

12 · The Cruise of the Aphrodite · H. E. Heckelmann · ss

31 · No More Gifts · Willard Marsh · ss

51 · Taste · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker December 8 1951

Playboy [v3 #5, May 1956] (quarto) []

12 · The Splendid Source · Richard Matheson · ss

22 · The Shooting of Judge Price · Erskine Caldwell · ss

43 · The Monster Show · Charles Beaumont · ss

Playboy [v3 #6, June 1956] (quarto) []
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12 · Nunc Dimittis · Roald Dahl · nv Collier’s September 4 1953, as “The Devious Bachelor”

21 · The Darendinger Build-Up · William F. Nolan · ss

30 · A Sound of Thunder · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s June 28 1952

52 · Last Gambit · Loring D. Mandel · ss

Playboy [v3 #7, July 1956] (quarto) []

12 · The Deal · Alice Denham · ss Discovery No. 5 ed. Vance Bourjaily, Cardinal, 1955

15 · The Truckdriver · Alberto Moravia · ss

61 · Nellthu · Anthony Boucher · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1955

75 · A Liberal Darling · Anton Chekhov · ss

75 · Concerning the Drama · Anton Chekhov · ss

Playboy [v3 #8, August 1956] (quarto) []
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10 · You Can’t Have Them All · Charles Beaumont · ss

17 · Walk to the Station · Stanley Cooperman · ss

51 · Ad Lib Exit · Willard Marsh · ss

Playboy [v3 #9, September 1956] (quarto) []

16 · Love, Incorporated · Robert Sheckley · ss

20 · The Doll · Hugh G. Foster · ss

69 · Get Out of My Life · John Wallace · ss

Playboy [v3 #10, October 1956] (quarto) []

21 · The Right Kind of Pride · Herbert Gold · ss

30 · Put Them All Together, They Spell Monster · Ray Russell · ss

32 · Hospitality · Lesley Conger · ss

59 · A Pound of Flesh · Anson Mount · ss

Playboy [v3 #11, November 1956] (quarto) []

20 · A Flourish of Strumpets · Richard Matheson · ss

32 · The Lover of the Coral Glades · Adrian Conan Doyle · ss

51 · The Flip Side · Charles Einstein · ss

73 · Falconry: Who Needs It? · P. G. Wodehouse · fa

Playboy [v3 #12, December 1956] (quarto) []
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20 · The Dark Music · Charles Beaumont · ss

37 · The Bitch in Heat · Robert Slater · ss

65 · The Hundred-Dollar Suicide · Henry Felsen · ss

Playboy [v4 #1, January 1957] (quarto) []

16 · The Hustler · Walter S. Tevis · ss

26 · In a Season of Calm Weather · Ray Bradbury · ss

47 · The Mask and the Maiden · John Collier · ss

· Bird · Richard Gehman & Robert George Reiner · ar [Ref. Charlie Parker]

· The Cuckold and the Cakes · [uncredited] · ss

Playboy [v4 #2, February 1957] (quarto) []

16 · A Second Father · Budd Schulberg · nv

31 · The Traveling Salesman · Robert Bloch · ss

47 · The 44 Year Old Boy Disc-Jockey and the Sincere Type Songstress · Herbert Gold · ss

Playboy [v4 #3, March 1957] (quarto) []

16 · Night Ride · Charles Beaumont · ss

23 · The Decent Thing to Do · Dion Henderson · ss

34 · Sentence · Fredric Brown · vi Angels and Spaceships by Fredric Brown, E.P. Dutton, 1954

34 · Daisies · Fredric Brown · vi Angels and Spaceships by Fredric Brown, E.P. Dutton, 1954

34 · Politeness · Fredric Brown · vi Angels and Spaceships by Fredric Brown, E.P. Dutton, 1954

Playboy [v4 #4, April 1957] (quarto) []
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18 · The Sergeant & the Slave Girl · T. K. Brown, III · ss

29 · All Through the Night · Nelson Algren · ss

47 · Victory Parade · Henry Slesar · ss

Playboy [v4 #5, May 1957] (quarto) []
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16 · Master of the Revels · Al Morgan · ss

47 · The Not Nice Guy · Herbert Gold · ss

Playboy [v4 #6, June 1957] (quarto) []

17 · The Fly · George Langelaan · nv

26 · The Double Cross-up · T. K. Brown, III · ss

Playboy [v4 #7, July 1957] (quarto) []

12 · Mistress of Porcosito · Gerald Kersh · ss The Strand Magazine March 1949, as “The Queen of Pig Island”

15 · A Very Human Story · Harvey Swados · ss

27 · The Champion of Outer Mongolia · Archie Oldham · ss

Playboy [v4 #8, August 1957] (quarto) []

12 · Incident Off Land’s End · Jacob Hay · ss

23 · Balance Sheet · Morton Fineman · ss

27 · Do Nice Artistic Girls? · Herbert Gold · ss

59 · Take Your Seats · Ray Russell · ss

· Five-Card Poker and the Hell with It · Max Shulman · ar

· The Goofy Girls · Robert Paul Smith · ar

Playboy [v4 #9, September 1957] (quarto) []

16 · The Prince and the Gladiator · Al Morgan · ss

21 · Open Season on Guests · John Steinbeck · ss

47 · A Matter of Life and Death · Arthur Rodney Coneybeare · ss

· The Blooper Girls [from Esprit de Corps] · Lawrence Durrell · ss

Playboy [v4 #10, October 1957] (quarto) []
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27 · Party Girl · John Wallace · ss

35 · The Cure · Robert Bloch · ss

53 · The Secret Formula · Henry Slesar · ss

· The Pious Pornographers · Ivor Williams · ar

Playboy [v4 #11, November 1957] (quarto) []

20 · The Deadly Will to Win · Charles Beaumont · ss

29 · The Buttondown Boys in the Frozen North · Stewart Pierce Brown · ss

50 · City Fables · Hoke Norris · gp

Playboy [v4 #12, December 1957] (quarto) []

23 · The Barracudas · Budd Schulberg · ss

25 · The Manipulators · Vance Packard · ar

68 · Something on His Mind · Gerald Kersh · ss Lilliput April 1941, as “Strong Greek Wine”

Playboy [v5 #1, January 1958] (quarto) []

12 · The Room of Dark · Gilbert Wright · ss

23 · Just Like a Girl · James Jones · ss

24 · The Best Job in Television · Frederick Wieting · ss

57 · The Rumbling, Rambling Blues · Jack Kerouac · ss

Playboy [v5 #2, February 1958] (quarto) []

27 · Examination Day · Henry Slesar · ss

51 · Let There Be Light · Arthur C. Clarke · ss The Evening Standard March 30 1957

59 · Thank You, Anna · Bill Safire · ss

Playboy [v5 #3, March 1958] (quarto) []
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17 · The Distributor · Richard Matheson · ss

35 · Wheel of Fortune · John Ogham · ss

65 · Hickory, Dickory, Kerouac · Martin Scott · ss

Playboy [v5 #4, April 1958] (quarto) []

16 · Weird Show · Herbert Gold · ss

32 · The Short-Short Story of Mankind · John Steinbeck · ss Lilliput November 1955, as “We’re Holding Our Own”

47 · A Stretch in Siberia · John Wallace · ss

Playboy [v5 #5, May 1958] (quarto) []

16 · The Man in the Well · Berkely Mather · ss

21 · Wizards on a Small Planet · Anthony Boucher · ar

37 · This One Is on the House · Pat Frank · ss

57 · Hard Bargain · Alan E. Nourse · ss

Playboy [v5 #6, June 1958] (quarto) []

17 · Sex on Sawdust · Daniel P. Mannix · ss

47 · The Sign of Scorpio · Charles Mergendahl · ss

Playboy [v5 #7, July 1958] (quarto) []

12 · The Sweet Sadness · Philip Lee Smith · ss

21 · The Devil to Pay · Stephen Barr · ss

28 · The Skindiver and the Lady · T. K. Brown, III · ss

Playboy [v5 #8, August 1958] (quarto) []

21 · A Very Rare Disease · Henry Slesar · vi

52 · Drop Dead · Fred McMorrow · ss

55 · Word of Honor · Robert Bloch · ss

Playboy [v5 #9, September 1958] (quarto) []

24 · The House of Hate · Browning Norton · ss

29 · The Peeping Tom Patrol · Michael Shaara · ss

56 · Sleepers, Awake! · Herbert Gold · ss

Playboy [v5 #10, October 1958] (quarto) []
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27 · The 51 Tones of Green · Ken W. Purdy · ss

35 · Perchance to Dream · Charles Beaumont · ss

59 · Montage · Ray Russell · ss

Playboy [v5 #11, November 1958] (quarto) []

26 · The Marvelous Lover · Joyce Engelson · ss

43 · The Jam · Henry Slesar · ss

55 · A Sock in the Jaw · Ken W. Purdy · ss

Playboy [v5 #12, December 1958] (quarto) []

59 · Everybody Hates David Starbuck · Steve Allen · ss

· Dear Ann and Abby: · [uncredited] · fa

71 · We’re Running a Little Late · Garson Kanin · nv

Playboy [v6 #1, January 1959] (quarto) []

16 · The Music of the Yellow Brass · Charles Beaumont · ss

30 · A Knight Lay Dying · Jerome Weidman · ss

37 · The Right Approach · P. G. Wodehouse · ss Lilliput September 1958; revised.
rewritten from “Joy Bells for Barmy”, (Cosmopolitan, October 1947), itself rewritten from “Dudley Is Back to Normal” (The Strand Magazine, July 1940).

46 · A Dish of Desire · J. P. Donleavy · ss

51 · No Room for Vice · Ben Hecht · ss

Playboy [v6 #2, February 1959] (quarto) []

17 · The Buttondown Boys at Creepsville High · Stewart Pierce Brown · ss

25 · A Fist Full of Money · Henry Slesar & Jay Folb · ss

55 · The Sensible Man · Avram Davidson · ss

Playboy [v6 #3, March 1959] (quarto) []

32 · The Noise · Ken W. Purdy · ss

43 · I Love You, Miss Irvine · John Wallace · ss

Playboy [v6 #4, April 1959] (quarto) []

21 · What’s Become of Your Creature? · Herbert Gold · ss

27 · Nasty · Fredric Brown · vi

65 · With All Due Respect · Fred McMorrow · ss

Playboy [v6 #5, May 1959] (quarto) []
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21 · Dealers Wild · T. K. Brown, III · ss

40 · The Girl Had Been Around · E. S. Jensen · ss

60 · Triplication · Robert Sheckley · gp

_ · Judication · Robert Sheckley · vi

_ · Duplication · Robert Sheckley · vi

_ · Lubrication · Robert Sheckley · vi

63 · Passion · Jules Feiffer · ss

Playboy [v6 #6, June 1959] (quarto) []

22 · The Voyage of the Peanut · Harvey Jacobs · ss

39 · The Wise Guy · Ken W. Purdy · ss

50 · Waste Not, Want Not · John Atherton · ss

Playboy [v6 #7, July 1959] (quarto) []

24 · No Fire Burns · Avram Davidson · ss

35 · Sorcerer’s Moon · Charles Beaumont · ss

44 · To Harpo Marx · Jack Kerouac · pm

45 · Made by Hand · Gregory Corso · pm

45 · To Lindsay · Allen Ginsberg · pm

71 · The Incredible Adventures of Dino · Herbert Gold · ss

Playboy [v6 #8, August 1959] (quarto) []
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33 · The Sender of Letters · Herbert Gold · nv

42 · The Rancher’s Daughter · John Novotny · ss

49 · OK, So I’m a Cookooboo · Charles Hamblett · ss

69 · Incognito · Henry Slesar · ss

Playboy [v6 #9, September 1959] (quarto) []
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38 · The Taste of Fear · Hugh G. Foster · ss

47 · The Tree · Roger Price · ss

73 · The World of Heart’s Desire · Robert Sheckley · ss

Playboy [v6 #10, October 1959] (quarto) []
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41 · Snakes in the Grass, Alas · T. K. Brown, III · ss

51 · No Such Thing as a Vampire · Richard Matheson · ss

59 · A Very Good Sidewalk Story · Herbert Gold · ss

84 · Loving Couple · Edward Wellen · ss

Playboy [v6 #11, November 1959] (quarto) []
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34 · A Cry from the Penthouse · Henry Slesar · ss

41 · A Long Time to Swing Alone · Noel Clad · ss

52 · The Joan Club · William Link & Richard Levinson · ss

80 · O Debt, Where Is Thy Sting? · Carlton Brown · fa

Playboy [v6 #12, December 1959] (quarto) []
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48 · Before the Road · Jack Kerouac · ss

63 · Crime at the Tennis Club · Alberto Moravia · ss

67 · Foul Ball · Max Shulman · ss

81 · A Fine Son · Roald Dahl · ss

97 · December 28th · Theodore L. Thomas · ss

Playboy [v7 #1, January 1960] (quarto) []

21 · The Love Philtre · Jerome Weidman · ss

27 · Softly Walks the Beetle · John Collier · ss

51 · The Case of the Difficult Husband · Robert Graves · ss

Playboy [v7 #2, February 1960] (quarto) []

26 · How Right You Are, Jeeves! [Jeeves and Wooster] · P. G. Wodehouse · n. John Bull Everybody’s Weekly July 11/August 29 1959 (+3); condensed.

47 · The Real Lady Chatterley · Harvey Kurtzman · ss

51 · Glen’s Girl · Jim Dilles · ss

62 · Meanwhile, Back at the Bromide · Robert Sheckley · gp

_62 · The Desperate Chase · Robert Sheckley · vi

_62 · The Disguised Agent · Robert Sheckley · vi

_63 · The Locked Room · Robert Sheckley · vi

Playboy [v7 #3, March 1960] (quarto) []

26 · The Hildebrand Rarity [James Bond] · Ian Fleming · nv

39 · The Roger Price Theory of Nomenclature · Roger Price · fa

57 · A Great Voice Stilled · Shirley Jackson · ss

69 · The Actor · Brian Rencelaw · vi

Playboy [v7 #4, April 1960] (quarto) []

29 · The Bargain · Edward Loomis · ss

35 · Girl with the Bear Rug Eyes · Rex Lardner · ss

40 · Epitaph for Obie · Ken W. Purdy · ss

Playboy [v7 #5, May 1960] (quarto) []

30 · Trouble in Makeoutsville · Herbert Gold · ss

41 · Mother’s Day · Leland Webb · ss

73 · I Remember Babylon · Arthur C. Clarke · ss

· The Distortion · Shel Silverstein · ct

Playboy [v7 #6, June 1960] (quarto) []

26 · The Runaways · Leland Webb · ss

56 · After: Four Fables of the Post-Bomb World · Henry Slesar · gp

_56 · Doctor · Henry Slesar · vi

_57 · Chief · Henry Slesar · vi

_57 · Merchant · Henry Slesar · vi

_57 · Lawyer · Henry Slesar · vi

65 · Ding Dong Ghoul · Robert Sabaroff · ss

Playboy [v7 #7, July 1960] (quarto) []

18 · O You New York Girls · John Wallace · ss

31 · First Anniversary · Richard Matheson · ss

34 · Rocket to the Renaissance · Arthur C. Clarke · ar

51 · Wilbur Fonts for President · Jeremy Dole · ss

Playboy [v7 #8, August 1960] (quarto) []
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32 · A Thief in the Night · Eugene Ziller · ss

37 · The Best of All Possible Worlds · Ray Bradbury · ss

65 · A Man for the Moon · Leland Webb · ss

· Moonlight Over Whattapoppalie · Larry Siegel · ss

Playboy [v7 #9, September 1960] (quarto) []

59 · Ounce of Prevention · Brian Rencelaw · ss

61 · The Never-Ending Penny · Bernard Wolfe · nv

95 · The Third Martini · John Carter · ss

Playboy [v7 #10, October 1960] (quarto) []

40 · The Book of Tony · Ken Purdy · ss

59 · The Supermen · William M. Clark · ss

79 · A Foot in the Door · Bruce Jay Friedman · ss

· Six New Poems and a Parable · Carl Sandburg · gp

_ · Skyscrapers Stand Proud · Carl Sandburg · pm

_ · Love Is a Deep and a Dark and a Lonely · Carl Sandburg · pm

_ · If You Hate a Man · Carl Sandburg · pm

_ · The Evening Sunsets Witness and Pass On · Carl Sandburg · pm

_ · Fathom This Murder, Sir · Carl Sandburg · pm

_ · High Moments · Carl Sandburg · pm

_ · Poetry and Liberty · Carl Sandburg · ss

· How Not to Write a Best Seller · Larry Siegel · ss

Playboy [v7 #11, November 1960] (quarto) []
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53 · Harpy · T. K. Brown, III · nv

58 · A Crazy Mixed-Up Id · Sam Gottesfeld · ss

70 · Girls for the Slime God · William Knoles · ar

Playboy [v7 #12, December 1960] (quarto) []

50 · Oalámaóa [Karmesin] · Gerald Kersh · ss

57 · Very Late in the Evening · Ray Bradbury · ss

63 · Father Brother and the Cool Colony · Roger Price · ss

81 · 23 Pat O’Brien Movies · Bruce Jay Friedman · ss

89 · Visiting Fireman · Art Buchwald & Herb Caen · fa

· Silverstein’s Zoo · Shel Silverstein · ct

Playboy [v8 #1, January 1961] (quarto) []
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34 · Sardonicus · Ray Russell · nv

43 · Conversation Piece · Ken Purdy · ss

83 · All the Weed in the World · Fritz Leiber · ss

Playboy [v8 #2, February 1961] (quarto) []
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44 · Come on out Daddy [Gordon Rengs] · Bernard Wolfe · ss

53 · That Sweet Sinner and Traveling I · Herbert Gold · ss

59 · The Room · Ray Russell · ss

65 · The Meaningful Relationship · Jules Feiffer · ss

98 · Rabbit in a Trap · Martin De Leon · ss

Playboy [v8 #3, March 1961] (quarto) []
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45 · The Machine in Ward Eleven · Charles Willeford · nv

51 · A Jackpot of Corpses · Ben Hecht · ar

62 · The Illustrated Woman · Ray Bradbury · ss

Playboy [v8 #4, April 1961] (quarto) []
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50 · The Emancipated Man · John Wallace · ss

55 · Blood Brother · Charles Beaumont · ss

69 · The Bottom of the Ocean · Ken Purdy · ss

83 · Wilbur Fonts in Africa · Jeremy Dole · ss

Playboy [v8 #5, May 1961] (quarto) []
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43 · Speak to Me of Immortality · Ken Purdy · nv

57 · The Hobbyist · Fredric Brown · vi

73 · A Star of the First Magnitude · John Crosby · ss

83 · The Laughingstock · Gerald Kersh · ss

95 · A Very High Quality Wine · J. A. Gato · vi; illustrated by Leon Bellin [Ref. Somadeva]
a new telling of a tale from the “Katha Sarit Sagara” of Somadeva.

Playboy [v8 #6, June 1961] (quarto) []
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44 · Marcianna and the Natural Carpaine in Papaya [Gordon Rengs] · Bernard Wolfe · nv

77 · Harold’s Affair · Walter Goodman · ss

131 · Punch · Frederik Pohl · ss

· The Literati of the Four-Letter Word · Leslie A. Fiedler · ar

Playboy [v8 #7, July 1961] (quarto) []
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34 · The Fifteenth Station · T. K. Brown, III · ss

40 · For Whom the Booth Tolls · Barry B. Spacks · ss

45 · Machina ex Deus · Arthur C. Clarke · ar

53 · The Inconsequential Pipsqueaks · Leland Webb · ss

· Don’t Think · Ray Russell · ss

Playboy [v8 #8, August 1961] (quarto) []
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38 · Reality for this Lad · Herbert Gold · ss

59 · The Killer in the TV Set · Bruce Jay Friedman · ss

75 · The Defeat of the Demon Tailor · Gerald Kersh · ss

Playboy [v8 #9, September 1961] (quarto) []

60 · The Lion’s Share · Harvey Jacobs · nv

77 · The Firing Line · Henry Slesar · ss

Playboy [v8 #10, October 1961] (quarto) []

62 · The Ninth Score · Ken W. Purdy · ss

77 · The Year the Yankees Won the Pennant · Jeremy Dole · ss

93 · Conversation with a Bug · Jack Sharkey · ss

· The Labors of Love · Anatole Broyard · ar

Playboy [v8 #11, November 1961] (quarto) []
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54 · Agoraphobia Is in the Public Domain [Gordon Rengs] · Bernard Wolfe · ss

79 · The Normal Man · William Masters · ss

103 · The Last Smile · Henry Slesar · ss

Playboy [v8 #12, December 1961] (quarto) []
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80 · Square Christmas · Walt Grove · ss

89 · Space Opera · Ray Russell · ss

93 · Professor Hyde · Thomas Berger · ss

Playboy [v9 #1, January 1962] (quarto) []
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50 · Tell Me the Reason, Do · Ken W. Purdy · ss

56 · Tune Every Heart and Every Voice · Irwin Shaw · ss

67 · A Miracle of Rare Device · Ray Bradbury · ss

85 · Proposition · Garson Kanin · ss

101 · The Personal Secretary · William Saroyan · ss

· Excerpts from Unpublished Private Letters · D. H. Lawrence · lt

· I Defy You · Henry Miller · ar

· The Courting of the Muse · P. G. Wodehouse · ar

Playboy [v9 #2, February 1962] (quarto) []
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44 · Anthony from Afar [Gordon Rengs] · Bernard Wolfe · nv

64 · The Spanish Prisoner · Gerald Kersh · ss

84 · The Investor · Bruce Jay Friedman · ss

Playboy [v9 #3, March 1962] (quarto) []

44 · Sagittarius · Ray Russell · na

51 · The Hazards of Prophecy · Arthur C. Clarke · ar

58 · O Manahatta, Mother of Waters · Herbert Gold · ss

83 · Solo for Violin · Henry Slesar · ss

· The Love Cult · Alfred Kazin · ar

Playboy [v9 #4, April 1962] (quarto) []
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38 · The Wonderful Clouds [Part 1 of 2] · Françoise Sagan · n. Dutton, 1962

57 · The Stancias’ House · Paul Darcy Boles · ss

63 · A Way to Make It · Henry Slesar · ss

87 · You Can’t Get There from Here · Arthur C. Clarke · ar

97 · Adam Frost · Vance Aandahl · ss

· The Story of Dumb Hanns · Charles Whiting · ss

Playboy [v9 #5, May 1962] (quarto) []
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34 · The Wonderful Clouds [Part 2 of 2] · Françoise Sagan · n. Dutton, 1962

46 · For the Rich They Sing—Sometimes · Ken W. Purdy · ss

63 · Control Somnambule · William Sambrot · ss

67 · The Miracle · Harry Mark Petrakis · ss

Playboy [v9 #6, June 1962] (quarto) []
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52 · A Father’s Gift · Walt Grove · ss

65 · The Murder of Edmund Grant · Robert Cenedella · fa

70 · Horror Trio · Gahan Wilson · gp

_70 · Appetizer · Gahan Wilson · ss

_71 · The Book · Gahan Wilson · vi

_72 · Phyllis · Gahan Wilson · ss

85 · Noises in the City · Irwin Shaw · ss

102 · From Lilliput to Brobdingnag · Arthur C. Clarke · ar

Playboy [v9 #7, July 1962] (quarto) []
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32 · The Pilgrimage of Roger Haydock · Robert Lewis Taylor · ss

43 · Bus Story · Calder Willingham · ss

63 · The Right Man for the Right Job · J. C. Thompson · ss

81 · Who Shall Dwell… · H. C. Neal · ss

Playboy [v9 #8, August 1962] (quarto) []
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39 · The Thin Red Line [Part 1 of 3] · James Jones · n. Scribner’s, 1962

59 · The Morning After · Wade Miller · ss

69 · World Without Distance · Arthur C. Clarke · ar

79 · The Interest of Strangers · Ray Russell · ss

Playboy [v9 #9, September 1962] (quarto) []
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81 · The Sound of Hirsch · Leonard Michaels · ss

93 · Hey, Look at Me! · Jack Finney · ss

117 · The Thin Red Line [Part 2 of 3] · James Jones · n. Scribner’s, 1962

· The Bloody Pulps · Charles Beaumont · ar

Playboy [v9 #10, October 1962] (quarto) []

74 · The Picture Thieves · Paul Gallico · nv

105 · Mind Beyond Matter · Arthur C. Clarke · ar

107 · A Lucky Day for the Boar · Gerald Kersh · ss

111 · The Little Creep and the Big Blonde Broad · Ken W. Purdy · ss

121 · The Thin Red Line [Part 3 of 3] · James Jones · n. Scribner’s, 1962

Playboy [v9 #11, November 1962] (quarto) []
Details supplied by Paul Di Filippo.

75 · Barbara Girl · Herbert Gold · ss

88 · The Fairy · Ben Hecht · ar

91 · Puppet Show · Fredric Brown · ss

107 · The Deadlier Bruise · Paxton Davis · ss

129 · Be Well-Rounded · Shepherd Mead · ar

137 · Come to Me, My Melancholy Dane · Ray Russell · ar

Playboy [v9 #12, December 1962] (quarto) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

75 · Winter in This Latitude · Rick Rubin · nv

99 · Brother Endicott · James Thurber · ss

105 · The Machineries of Joy · Ray Bradbury · ss

110 · Ode to a Housefly · Ernie Kovacs · pm

122 · Gala at the Tour d’Argent · Ludwig Bemelmans · ss

133 · None but the Brave · Garson Kanin · ss

· The Lonely Machine · Jules Feiffer · ss

· The Father and Son Cigar · Nelson Algren · ar

· Sex Symbols · Sally Baldwin · ct

Playboy [v10 #1, January 1963] (quarto) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

54 · The Golden Frog · Ken W. Purdy · nv

· The Glow Worm · Henry Slesar · ss

107 · To Be Courteous to Women · William Saroyan · ss

· Meeting with Hemingway · Evgeny Evtushenko · pm

· The Millionaire Mentality · J. Paul Getty · ar

Playboy [v10 #2, February 1963] (quarto) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

50 · Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves! [Part 1 of 2; Jeeves and Wooster] · P. G. Wodehouse · n.
condensed from the forthcoming novel (Simon and Schuster, March 1963).

61 · The New Deal · Charles Einstein · ss

71 · Beyond Gravity · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke, Gollancz, 1962

105 · The Perfect Alibi · Joe Hickey & Mike McGrady · vi

Playboy [v10 #3, March 1963] (quarto) []

62 · The Song of the Four-Colored Sell · Herbert Gold · ss

77 · Mortmain · Graham Greene · ss

79 · A Fledgling of L’Amour · Alexander King · ar

83 · Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves! [Part 2 of 2; Jeeves and Wooster] · P. G. Wodehouse · n.
condensed from the forthcoming novel (Simon and Schuster, March 1963).

111 · Hung Jury · Hoke Norris · ss

Playboy [v10 #4, April 1963] (quarto) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

70 · On Her Majesty’s Secret Service [Part 1 of 3; James Bond] · Ian Fleming · n. Jonathan Cape, 1963

85 · Ghost Money · Gerald Kersh · ss

· Double Standard · Fredric Brown · ss

· Playboy Interview with Helen Gurley Brown · Helen Gurley Brown · iv

Playboy [v10 #5, May 1963] (quarto) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

74 · The Tie That Binds · Walt Grove · ss

88 · On Her Majesty’s Secret Service [Part 2 of 3; James Bond] · Ian Fleming · n. Jonathan Cape, 1963

115 · Man with a Past · T. K. Brown, III · vi

· Americans Go Home · Leslie A. Fiedler · ar

Playboy [v10 #6, June 1963] (quarto) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

80 · Harry, the Rat with Women [Part 1 of 2] · Jules Feiffer · n. McGraw-Hill, 1963

84 · The Queen’s Own Evaders · Ray Bradbury · ss

91 · Skin-Deep · Brian Rencelaw · ss

114 · On Her Majesty’s Secret Service [Part 3 of 3; James Bond] · Ian Fleming · n. Jonathan Cape, 1963

Playboy [v10 #7, July 1963] (quarto) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

· A Night in the Byzantine Palace · Ray Russell · ss

59 · Change of Plan · Ken Purdy · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1952

71 · Harry, the Rat with Women [Part 2 of 2] · Jules Feiffer · n. McGraw-Hill, 1963

· The Way of a Traveling Man · J. A. Gato · ss

Playboy [v10 #8, August 1963] (quarto) []
Details supplied by Paul Di Filippo.

48 · Naked Nude · Bernard Malamud · ss

57 · Car on the Mountain · T. K. Brown, III · ss

66 · Four Fateful Fables for Today · Slawomir Mrozek · gp

66 · A Silent Hero · Slawomir Mrozek · vi

66 · A Trial · Slawomir Mrozek · vi

66 · A Citizen’s Fate · Slawomir Mrozek · vi

66 · A Drummer’s Adventure · Slawomir Mrozek · vi

103 · The Only Pure Love · Herbert Gold · ss

109 · Conceiving Can Be Fun · Shepherd Mead · ss

Playboy [v10 #9, September 1963] (75¢, 242pp, quarto) []
Charles Beaumont, contributing editor.
Details supplied by René Beaulieu.

· Playbill · [uncredited] · bg

· Dear Playboy · The Readers · lc

· Playboy After Hours · [uncredited] · cl

· The Playboy Advisor · [uncredited] · qa

· Payboy Interview: Richard Burton—A Candid Conversation with Cleopatra’s Controversial Co-Star · [uncredited] · iv

· The Playboy Forum · The Readers · lc

_ · [letter] · C. Theodore Morrison · lt [Ref. George Orwell]; about Georges Orwell’s 1984.

_ · [letter] · Anthony J. Richman · lt

_ · [letter] · Raymond J. Brandell · lt

_ · [letter] · Gregory Scott · lt

_ · [letter] · Mike Hayways · lt

_ · [letter] · Theodore Sturgeon · lt; about George Orwell and Lenny.

· The Plaboy Philosophy (10) · Hugh M. Hefner · ed

· Love, Death and the Hubby Image · William Iversen · ar

· Playboy Pigskin Preview · Anson Mount · ar

· Ah, Women, Women · Alberto Moravia · ss

· The Relationship · Jules Feiffer · pi

· Beefing It Up · Thomas Mario · ar

· The Life Work of Juan Diaz · Ray Bradbury · ss

· Coated and Noted · Robert L. Green · ar

· Noon Gun · Theodore Sturgeon · ss

· Viva Victoria—Playmate of the Month · [uncredited] · pi

· The Bussiness Man at Bay · J. Paul Getty · ar

· Mirror of Gigantic Shadows · Stephen Barr · ss

· Limericks · [uncredited] · pm

· [cartoon] · Gahan Wilson · ct

· Europe’s New Sex Sirens · [uncredited] · pi

· World’s Billard Championship—Sardi’s · LeRoy Neiman · pi

· Ribald Classic: Bucksin Man · J. A. Gato · ss; from the Folklore of the Apaches.

· Back to Campus · Robert L. Green · ar

· On the Scene—Personnalities · [uncredited] · ar

· How to Handle Women in Business · Shepherd Mead · hu

· News-Reals · Gerald Gardner · pi

· The Thinker of Tender Thoughts · Shel Silverstein · cs

· Little Annie Fanny · Harvey Kurtzman & Will Elder · cs

· Playboy’s International Datebook · Patrick Chase · cl

Playboy [v10 #10, October 1963] (quarto) []

95 · The Going Price for Adoration [Gordon Rengs; Anson Luddy] · Bernard Wolfe · ss

101 · No Time for the Billiard Ballet · Jack Finney · ss

133 · It Didn’t Happen · Fredric Brown · ss

151 · The Calfayan Collection · Peter Sourian · ss

Playboy [v10 #11, November 1963] (quarto) []
Details supplied by K. Becker.

90 · Bernie the Faust · William Tenn · nv

104 · Ambush · John Reese · ss

119 · The Strange Gig · Borden Deal · ss

139 · The Eighth Wonder of the World · Petronius · vi

· Hallucinogens: A Philosopher’s Visionary Prediction · Aldous Huxley · ar

Playboy [v10 #12, December 1963] (quarto) []

100 · The Vacation · Ray Bradbury · ss

111 · Eyewitness · Alberto Moravia · ss

127 · To Paradise, by Ferry · Arthur Kopit · ss

131 · Conversation Over Moo Goo Gai Pan · Anatole Broyard · ss

147 · A Corking Evening · Lawrence Durrell · ss

151 · Beelzebub · Robert Bloch · ss

· How to Read a Book Superficially · Mortimer Adler · ar

· The “Noble” Experiment · Ben Hecht · ar

Playboy [v11 #1, January 1964] (quarto) []

85 · An Actor’s Life for Me · Philip Roth · nv

92 · The Property of a Lady [James Bond] · Ian Fleming · nv The Ivory Hammer, Longmans and Co., 1963

143 · The Very Acme of Romantic Love · Wolf Mankowitz · vi

154 · The Homecoming · Frederic Morton · ss

· The Uses of the Blues · James Baldwin · ar

· Advice to a Young Man · Ernest Hemingway · ar

· On Being a Managerial Misfit · Vance Packard · ar

· Playboy Interview: Vladimir Nabokov · [uncredited] · iv [Ref. Vladimir Nabokov]

· The Conflicting Ideologies of East and West · Bertrand Russell · ar

Playboy [v11 #2, February 1964] (quarto) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

70 · Biffen’s Millions [Part 1 of 2; Percy Pilbeam] · P. G. Wodehouse · n.; condensed.

83 · The Nightmare · Pat Frank · ss

91 · Where Does It Say in Freud That a Shrink Has to Be Polite? · Jack Raphael Guss · ss

Playboy [v11 #3, March 1964] (quarto) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

67 · A Bit of a Dreamer, a Bit of a Fool · Romain Gary · ss

78 · Biffen’s Millions [Part 2 of 2; Percy Pilbeam] · P. G. Wodehouse · n.; condensed.

87 · The Delicate Operation · Jon Edward Manson · ss

103 · The Meddlers · Arthur C. Clarke · ar

· Ayn Rand · Alvin Toffler · iv [Ref. Ayn Rand]

· Living with Labor · J. Paul Getty · ar

Playboy [v11 #4, April 1964] (quarto) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

70 · You Only Live Twice [Part 1 of 3; James Bond] · Ian Fleming · n. Jonathan Cape, 1964

87 · You Could Always Hope · John Keats · ss

105 · The Fiend · Frederik Pohl · ss

Playboy [v11 #5, May 1964] (quarto) []

66 · Portrait of Charles Boyd · Ken W. Purdy · ss

70 · You Only Live Twice [Part 2 of 3; James Bond] · Ian Fleming · n. Jonathan Cape, 1964

87 · I’m Just a Traveling Man · William Wiser · ss

113 · The Food of the Gods · Arthur C. Clarke · ss

· Papa and the Playwright · Kenneth Tynan · ar [Ref. Ernest Hemingway & Tennessee Williams]

Playboy [v11 #6, June 1964] (quarto) []

71 · Jackpot · Herbert Gold · nv

79 · Intimations of Immortality · Frederik Pohl · ar

100 · You Only Live Twice [Part 3 of 3; James Bond] · Ian Fleming · n. Jonathan Cape, 1964

109 · The Wind Devil · Prentiss Combs · ss

131 · The Person in Solferino Park · Gerald Kersh · ss

· Hairy Gertz and the 47 Crappies · Jean Shepherd · bg

Playboy [v11 #7, July 1964] (quarto) []

50 · John Grant’s Little Angel · Walt Grove · ss

65 · A New Chapter in the Human Comedy [Homer Macauley] · William Saroyan · ss

· Sex and the Office · Helen Gurley Brown · ar

Playboy [v11 #8, August 1964] (quarto) []
Details supplied by Paul Di Filippo.

50 · And I Mean That Sincerely! · Ray Russell · ss

59 · The Moor’s Tale · William Wiser · ss

81 · The Happy Hipster · Herbert Gold · ss

100 · The Shining Ones · Arthur C. Clarke · ss

· Revolution Below the Belt · John Clellon Holmes · ar

Playboy [v11 #9, September 1964] (quarto) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

104 · Side by Side · John Tomerlin · ss

126 · Youth, Love, Death · J. P. Donleavy · ss

142 · Bertram and the Networks · Daniel Jenkins · ss

· The Deadly Halls of Ivy · Paul Goodman · ar

Playboy [v11 #10, October 1964] (quarto) []
Details supplied by Paul Di Filippo.

84 · Heavy Set · Ray Bradbury · ss

95 · Requiem on the Moon · David Duncan · ss

107 · Sue Me Rich [Anson Luddy] · Bernard Wolfe · ss

118 · The Brass Telephone · Ken W. Purdy · ss

140 · Music of the Absurd · James Blish · ar

155 · The Touched Nest · Prentiss Combs · ss

· Caught in the Act · Jerry Yulsman · hu

· Rainbows in a Bucket · Vance Bourjaily · ar

Playboy [v11 #11, November 1964] (quarto) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

82 · Naked in Xanadu · Ray Russell · nv

91 · The Pirates of Padre Island · Michael O’Connell · ss

115 · Beyond Centaurus · Arthur C. Clarke · ar

136 · Running Man · Herbert Gold · ss

179 · Our Friend Marsha · Jules Feiffer · ss

· The Pool · Jack Sharkey · ss

Playboy [v11 #12, December 1964] (quarto) []
Details supplied by Paul Di Filippo.

113 · Once, in Aleppo · Irwin Shaw · nv

139 · Sauve Qui Peut · Lawrence Durrell · ss

143 · The Hunters · Gerald Kersh · ss

176 · Velvet and Apollo · Frederic Morton · ss

207 · The Mission · Hugh Nissenson · ss

227 · The Dot and Dash Bird · Bernard Wolfe · ss

Playboy [v12 #1, January 1965] (quarto) []
Details supplied by Paul Di Filippo.

80 · The Eye [Part 1 of 3] · Vladimir Nabokov · n.

93 · Bingo Bans the Bomb [Bingo Little] · P. G. Wodehouse · ss; abridged.

99 · Remembrances of Things Future · Ray Bradbury · ar

125 · Tea Party · Harold Pinter · ss

139 · Good Blonde · Jack Kerouac · ss

148 · Dial “F” for Frankenstein · Arthur C. Clarke · ss

· The Age of Overbreed · Julian Huxley · ar

· Playboy Interview: Martin Luther King · [uncredited] · iv [Ref. Martin Luther King]

Playboy [v12 #2, February 1965] (quarto) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

63 · This Time, Tomorrow · Ken Purdy · ss

73 · The Eye [Part 2 of 3] · Vladimir Nabokov · n.

107 · My Friend Wainscott · Alastair Reid · ss

116 · Double Exposure · John Reese · ss

Playboy [v12 #3, March 1965] (quarto) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

67 · A Clowny Night in the Red-Eyed World · Calder Willingham · ss

82 · The Eye [Part 3 of 3] · Vladimir Nabokov · n.

100 · Oh Danny Boy · Walt Grove · ss

107 · The Waters of Stingray · William Hoffman · ss

116 · Somewhere Not Far from Here · Gerald Kersh · ss

Playboy [v12 #4, April 1965] (quarto) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

64 · The Man with the Golden Gun [Part 1 of 4; James Bond] · Ian Fleming · n. Jonathan Cape, 1965

77 · Stylish Stout [Bingo Little] · P. G. Wodehouse · ss; abridged.

85 · Maelstrom II · Arthur C. Clarke · ss

111 · Double Take · Jack Finney · ss

· Playboy Interview: Art Buchwald · [uncredited] · iv [Ref. Art Buchwald]

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