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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, 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, 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, 1953

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

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

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