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The Planeteer [v1 #6, April 1936] ed. Jim Blish (10¢, 14pp, 8½″ x 11″, cover by W. H. Miller) []
Details supplied by Alistair Durie.

3 · Yelps from the Editor’s End · The Editor · ed

4 · Bat-shadow Shroud · Jim Blish · ss

8 · Esperantist’s Science-fiction Bulletin · [uncredited] · ar

9 · Next Month’s Planeteer Tale · [uncredited] · ar

10 · Coal Thief · Laurence Manning · vi

12 · The Reader Spanks · Readers · lc

The Planeteer [v2 #1, September 1936 (unpublished)] ed. James Blish (cover by Morris Dollens, Jnr.) []
Details taken from eBay listing. Given as “Tesseract combined with The Planeteer” in the Table of Contents. According to Sam Moskowitz, Blish never did mail out the unfinished number of The Planeteer and Moskowitz “on a visit to Blish’s home in 1937, salvaged most of the remaining pages and assembled some two dozen copies, which he sold at ten cents apiece.”

· The Wood · H. P. Lovecraft · pm The Tryout January 1927, as by L. Theobald, Jun.

· Death’s Crystal Towers · James Blish · uw

· Napoleon of Space · J. Harvey Haggard · ss

· The Thousandth Raid · William S. Sykora · ss Fantascience Digest March/April 1938

The Planeteer [v2 #1, March 1939] ed. James V. Taurasi (10¢, 26pp+, 8½″ x 11″ mimeographed, cover by James V. Taurasi) []
Details supplied by Alistair Durie.

2 · Editorial · The Editor · ed

4 · It Happened in Space · James V. Taurasi · ss

9 · The Dreamer · Gertrude Kuslan · vi

10 · He of the Xandy · Walter E. Marconette · ss

14 · Crack-up “Rocky” · John Giunta · ss

17 · The Coming of Ornoo · Dale Hart · ss

Planets of Peril (about)

Planets of Peril [#1, (July) 2020] ed. John B. Ford & Steve Lines (Rainfall Books, £5.50, 40pp, A5, cover by Steve Lines) []
Details taken from magazine website.

· A Prince of Mars · Lin Carter & Robert M. Price · ss

· Sabre · D. J. Tyrer · ss

Playboy (about)
Fiction only listed for most issues.

Playboy [v1 #1, December 1953] (quarto) []

22 · Introducing Sherlock Holmes [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss (r)

34 · A Horseman in the Sky · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 14 1889

Playboy [v1 #2, January 1954] (quarto) []

22 · A Scandal in Bohemia [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine July 1891

32 · Bird of Prey · John Collier · ss Presenting Moonshine by John Collier, Viking, January 1941

Playboy [v1 #3, February 1954] (quarto) []

6 · New Cabin · Erskine Caldwell · ss College Humor July 1936

20 · The Adventure of the Copper Beeches [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine June 1892

Playboy [v1 #4, March 1954] (quarto) []

6 · Fahrenheit 451 [Part 1 of 3] · Ray Bradbury · n. Ballantine, October 1953

12 · Medicine Man · Erskine Caldwell · ss We Are the Living by Erskine Caldwell, Viking Press, 1933

Playboy [v1 #5, April 1954] (quarto) []

23 · Fahrenheit 451 [Part 2 of 3] · Ray Bradbury · n. Ballantine, October 1953

Playboy [v1 #6, May 1954] (quarto) []

19 · Fahrenheit 451 [Part 3 of 3] · Ray Bradbury · n. Ballantine, October 1953

Playboy [v1 #7, June 1954] (quarto) []

6 · A Woman of Fifty · William Somerset Maugham · ss Good Housekeeping May 1946

Playboy [v1 #8, July 1954] (quarto) []

21 · The Voice in the Night · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Blue Book Magazine November 1907

Playboy [v1 #9, August 1954] (quarto) []

19 · The Flying Machine · Ray Bradbury · ss The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, March 1953

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, October 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, November 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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

· 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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

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, January 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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

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, September 1954

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

34 · Politeness · Fredric Brown · vi Angels and Spaceships by Fredric Brown, E.P. Dutton, September 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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

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) []
Details supplied by Paul Di Filippo.

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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

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) []
Details supplied by Paul Di Filippo.

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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

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) []
Details supplied by Paul Di Filippo.

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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

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) []
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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) []
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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) []
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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) []
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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) []
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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) []
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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) []
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· 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) []
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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) []
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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) []
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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

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