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Planetary Stories [#31, September 2014] ed. Shelby Vick (online, cover by Jim Garrison) (Full Text)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

Time Atlas · George S. Karagiannis · ss
Broken Wing · Martin McCall · ss
Detour · Richard Logan · ss
The Man of Action · Martyn Osmundsen · ss

Planetary Stories [#32, January 2015] ed. Shelby Vick (online, cover by Shelby Vick)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

The Forcythe · Johann Kuester · ss
Easy Money · Johnny Sachu · ss
Captain Pops · J. Eckert Lytle · ss; illustrated by Jim Garrison
Autoexec.bat · Gerd Maximovic; translated by Isabel Cole · ss
Flag · Martyn Osmundsen · ss
The Fire Chief and Margharita · Gerd Maximovic; translated by Isabel Cole · ss
All Hail Thugbert! · Matthew Senkowski · ss

Planetary Stories [#33, July 2015] ed. Shelby Vick (online, cover by Allen Koszowski)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

Executive Decision · J. Eckert Lytle · ss
The Planetoid Plunderers · Gerd Maximovic; translated by Isabel Cole · ss
Time After Time · Shelby Vick · ss
Breaches · James Comer · ss
Working Vacation · William Quincy Belle · ss

Planetary Stories [#34, January 2016] ed. Shelby Vick (online, cover by Jim Garrison)
Details taken from Table of Contents. Given as “Issue #15, July 2009” in the Table of Contents. This is a “special issue” dedicated to artist Jim Garrison, reprinting a number of stories he illustrated in earlier issues.

The Hive of the Flare Beasts [Solar Ranger] · Lee Tenibor · ss Planetary Stories Sep 2007; illustrated by Jim Garrison
Bonnie and Clyde in the Belt [Bonnie and Clyde] · Shelby Vick · ss Planetary Stories Jul 2009; illustrated by Jim Garrison
Curtain Call on Mars · Bob Bolin · ss Planetary Stories Jul 2009; illustrated by Jim Garrison
Quick Trip · Johann Kuester · ss Planetary Stories Oct 2009; illustrated by Jim Garrison
The Western Rim · Johann Kuester · ss Planetary Stories Jul 2009; illustrated by Jim Garrison

Planetary Stories [#35, March 2016] ed. Shelby Vick (online, cover by Jose Sanchez)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

Interplanetary Showdown at Job Lot · David Howard · ss
On Guard · Gerd Maximovic · ss; illustrated by Jim Garrison
From “Q” to Oz [Star Trek; Oz] · J. Eckert Lytle · ss
Morphanese · J. Eckert Lytle · ss
The Trap in the Closet · William Quincy Belle · ss
Blue Sky · Gerd Maximovic · ss
A Dayover · Martin Edwards · ss
7 of 9 · Robin Usher · ar

Planetary Stories [#36, June 2016] ed. Shelby Vick (online)
Details taken from magazine website.

Caution · Charles Stoddard · ss
Xenograft · George Karagiannis · ss; illustrated by George Karagiannis
Accidents Will Happen · William Quincy Belle · ss
Interferon · Martyn Osmundsen · ss; illustrated by George Karagiannis
R.O.A.C. · Martian Edwards · ss
Salt · Gerd Maximovic; translated by Isabel Cole · ss
Emile Cone and His Great Discovery · Gerd Maximovic & Shelby Vick · ar; given as “The Greatest Discovery” in the Table of Contents.

Planetary Stories [#37, October 2016] ed. Shelby Vick (online)
Details taken from magazine website.

The Water Boys · Matthew Harrison · ss
The Portal · William Quincy Belle · ss
Amelia at the UN · Martyn Osmundsen · ss
You’re Wanted · Matthew Harrison · ss
PG 13 · Robin Usher · ar

Planetary Stories [#38, January 2017] ed. Shelby Vick (online)
Details taken from magazine website.

fc. · Bounty Hunter · Jose Sanchez · cv
Dodgem · Allen Lang · ss
Babe, Bum and Bem · Richard Logan · ss
The Great Gray Moment · Carleton Grindle · ss
The Old Time Surgeries · Tom Sheehan · ss
A Well-Ordered Universe · Pierre Comtois · ar

Planetary Stories [#39, July 2017] ed. Shelby Vick (online, cover by Tim Riley)
Details taken from magazine website.

The Insidious Assault of the Teddy Bears · George S. Karagiannis · ss
Captain Stark of the Space Patrol · Richard Logan · ss
Art MAGNUM: A Search for Knowledge · George Wilson · ss
Dick Tracer PI · George Wilson · ss

The Planeteer (about)

The Planeteer [v1 #1, November 1935] ed. Jim Blish (; 131 Harrison Street, East Orange, NJ., 12pp, 5½" x 8½" hectographed, cover by Jim Blish)
Details supplied by Alistair Durie.

3 · Yelps from the Editor’s End · [The Editor] · ed
4 · Neptunian Refuge · Jim Blish · ss

The Planeteer [v1 #2, December 1935] ed. Jim Blish (Blish-Grim Enterprises, net Inc.; 131 Harrison Street, East Orange, NJ., 10¢, 16pp, 5½" x 8½" hectographed, cover by Jim Blish, [?])
Details supplied by Alistair Durie.

3 · Yelps from the Editor’s End · [The Editor] · ed
4 · Mad Vision · Jim Blish · ss
13 · The Planeteer’s Televisor: 1. The Rocket Pistol · Anon. · ar
14 · Coming Next Month · Anon. · ms

The Planeteer [v1 #3, January 1936] ed. Jim Blish (Blish-Grim Enterprises; 131 Harrison Street, East Orange, NJ., 16pp, 7" x 8½", cover by W. Miller)
Mimeographed with hectographed illustrations. Details supplied by Alistair Durie.

3 · Yelps from the Editor’s End · [The Editor] · ed
4 · Pursuit Into Nowhere · Jim Blish · ss
13 · The Planeteer’s Televisor: 2. The Disintegrator · Anon. · ar
14 · The Reader Spanks · Readers · lc
15 · Coming Next Month · Anon. · ms

The Planeteer [v1 #4, February 1936] ed. Jim Blish (; 131 Harrison Street, East Orange, NJ., 10¢, 16pp, 7" x 8½")
Mimeographed with hectographed illustrations. Details supplied by Alistair Durie.

3 · Yelps from the Editor’s End · [The Editor] · ed
4 · Threat from Copernicus · Jim Blish · ss
12 · The Planeteer’s Televisor: Heavy Artillary: The Moon-Ray · Anon. · ar
12 · The Reader Spanks · Readers · lc
13 · First Prize Contest · Anon. · cn
14 · Coming Next Month · Anon. · ms

The Planeteer [v1 #5, March 1936] ed. Jim Blish (; 69 Halsted Street, East Orange, NJ., 10¢, 12pp, 7" x 8½")
Details supplied by Alistair Durie.

1 · Yelps from the Editor’s End · [The Editor] · ed
2 · Trail of the Comet · James Blish · ss
9 · Coming Next Month · Anon. · ms
10 · Emptiness · Burton DuMont · vi
12 · The Reader Spanks · Readers · lc

The Planeteer [v1 #6, April 1936] ed. Jim Blish (; 69 Halsted Street, East Orange, NJ., 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 · Anon. · ar
9 · Next Month’s Planeteer Tale · Anon. · 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 Jan 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 Mar/Apr 1938

The Planeteer [v2 #1, March 1939] ed. James V. Taurasi (; 137-07 32nd Flushing, N.Y., 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

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 Apr 14 1889

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

22 · A Scandal in Bohemia [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine Jul 1891
32 · Bird of Prey · John Collier · ss Presenting Moonshine, Viking 1941

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

6 · New Cabin · Erskine Caldwell · ss College Humor Jul 1936
20 · The Adventure of the Copper Beeches [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine Jun 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, The 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 Nov 1907

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

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

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

6 · Black Country · Charles Beaumont · nv
22 · Roll Out the Rolov! · Harry C. Crosby · ss Imagination Nov 1953

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

6 · Appearance and Reality · William Somerset Maugham · ss Cosmopolitan Nov 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 Aut 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 Apr 1949
10 · Carnival · Erskine Caldwell · ss Mid-Week Pictorial Oct 24 1936
13 · The Ears of Johnny Bear · John Steinbeck · ss Esquire Sep 1937

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

6 · A Change of Air · Ivan Gold · nv New World Writing #4, Mentor Books 1953
17 · The Most Horrible Story in the World · John W. Jakes · ss Imagination Jan 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 Jan 1941
23 · Naked Lady · Mindret Lord · ss Weird Tales Sep 1934

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