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

6 · In the Cards · John Collier · ss Fancies and Goodnights, 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 Dec 1934, as “The Crooked Coronet”
16 · Uncle Fred Flits By [Uncle Fred; Pongo Twistleton] · P. G. Wodehouse · nv Redbook Magazine Jul 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 · ss Harper’s Bazar Sep 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, Arkham House 1947

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

10 · Advice About Women · Erskine Caldwell · ss
13 · Nunc Dimittis · Roald Dahl · nv Collier’s Sep 4 1953, as “The Devious Bachelor”
20 · Will for Nero · 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 Sep 6 1930
29 · Mary · John Collier · ss Harper’s Bazaar Jul 1939

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

12 · Couching at the Door · D. K. Broster · nv The Cornhill Magazine Dec 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 Dec 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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21 · The Darendinger Build-Up · William F. Nolan · ss
30 · A Sound of Thunder · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s Jun 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 Aug 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

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

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

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

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 Apr 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 Dundee Sunday Telegraph Sep 5 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 Nov 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: · Anon. · 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 Sep 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

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