
Collector Grade Playboy Magazine Collection
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Nearly Complete Collection: 1954-2011 CGC Ready Playboy Magazines
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Playboy July 1955
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Janet Pilgrim
PLAYMATE: Janet Pilgrim
PICTORIALS: Tempest Storm
FEATURES: Fiction, The Crooked Coronet by Michael Arlen; A Steady, High-Type Fellow by Herbert Gold; Ribald Classic by Balzac; satire, High, Proud Hills by Ray Russell; article, A Vote for Polygamy by Jay Smith; Jack Cole sketches, Man About the Beach.
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG+
PLAYMATE: Janet Pilgrim
PICTORIALS: Tempest Storm
FEATURES: Fiction, The Crooked Coronet by Michael Arlen; A Steady, High-Type Fellow by Herbert Gold; Ribald Classic by Balzac; satire, High, Proud Hills by Ray Russell; article, A Vote for Polygamy by Jay Smith; Jack Cole sketches, Man About the Beach.
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG+
Playboy October 1955
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Marilyn McClintock
PLAYMATE: Jean Moorehead/Johnnie Nicely
PICTORIALS: A Stripper Goes to College - pictorial of Patti Waggin; Swenska Flicka - pictorial of Anita Eckberg.
FEATURES: College Issue; fiction, The Taming of the Rake by Anson Mount, The King by James Jones.
PAGES: 64
CONDITION: VG+
PLAYMATE: Jean Moorehead/Johnnie Nicely
PICTORIALS: A Stripper Goes to College - pictorial of Patti Waggin; Swenska Flicka - pictorial of Anita Eckberg.
FEATURES: College Issue; fiction, The Taming of the Rake by Anson Mount, The King by James Jones.
PAGES: 64
CONDITION: VG+
Playboy December 1955
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Janet Pilgrim
PLAYMATE: Janet Pilgrim
PICTORIALS: A Holiday Evening With Janet Pilgrim; Burlesque in Tokyo
FEATURES: Playboy's Christmas Cards; Fiction, A Classic Affair by Charles Beaumont; The Next In Line by Ray Bradbury; article, Uncovering A Nudist Wedding by Earl Wilson; satire, The First ASap of Manhood by Shepherd Mead.
PAGES: 64
CONDITION: VG+
PLAYMATE: Janet Pilgrim
PICTORIALS: A Holiday Evening With Janet Pilgrim; Burlesque in Tokyo
FEATURES: Playboy's Christmas Cards; Fiction, A Classic Affair by Charles Beaumont; The Next In Line by Ray Bradbury; article, Uncovering A Nudist Wedding by Earl Wilson; satire, The First ASap of Manhood by Shepherd Mead.
PAGES: 64
CONDITION: VG+
Playboy January 1956
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Jean Moorehead
PLAYMATE: Lynn Turner
PICTORIALS: First two dozen Playmates (9 pages), including Jean Moorehead, Margaret Scott, Arline Hunter, Neva Gilbert, Jayne Mansfield, Madeline Castle, Marguerite Empey, Diane Hunter, Marilyn Waltz, Janet Pilgrim, Pat Lawler, Marilyn Monroe, Margie Harrison, Terry Ryan, Dolores Del Monte, Joanne Arnold, Eve Meyer, Anne Fleming, Jackie Rainbow, Barbara Cameron, Bettie Page.
FEATURES: Fiction: Advice About Women by Erskine Caldwell; Last Will and Testament by Rex Fabian; Love, the Healer by Herbert Gold; I Like Blondes by Robert Bloch; 5 pages of illustrations by Jack Cole, Cole's Forecast for 1956; Ribald Classic, A Narrow Escape by Voltaire; Satire: Beware of a Hasty Marriage by Shepherd Mead.
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG+
PLAYMATE: Lynn Turner
PICTORIALS: First two dozen Playmates (9 pages), including Jean Moorehead, Margaret Scott, Arline Hunter, Neva Gilbert, Jayne Mansfield, Madeline Castle, Marguerite Empey, Diane Hunter, Marilyn Waltz, Janet Pilgrim, Pat Lawler, Marilyn Monroe, Margie Harrison, Terry Ryan, Dolores Del Monte, Joanne Arnold, Eve Meyer, Anne Fleming, Jackie Rainbow, Barbara Cameron, Bettie Page.
FEATURES: Fiction: Advice About Women by Erskine Caldwell; Last Will and Testament by Rex Fabian; Love, the Healer by Herbert Gold; I Like Blondes by Robert Bloch; 5 pages of illustrations by Jack Cole, Cole's Forecast for 1956; Ribald Classic, A Narrow Escape by Voltaire; Satire: Beware of a Hasty Marriage by Shepherd Mead.
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG+
Playboy February 1956
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Four Ladies w/ Mr. Playboy
PLAYMATE: Marguerite Empey
PICTORIALS: Will Success Spoil Jayne Mansfield - 2 pages of photos with text by Earl Wilson.
FEATURES: Fiction: Mary by John Collier and Crack Of Doom by Don Marquis (full page illustration by Leroy Neiman; Travel: How To Get Stoned on Fifty Cents; Article: The Long Blue Nose of the Law, by Noble and Averbuch; Profile of Stan Kenton by Bill Russo (with great photos by Herman Leonard); Boxing 1956 by Ed Pazdur; satire: Playright on a Hot Tin Roof by Ray Russell.
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG
PLAYMATE: Marguerite Empey
PICTORIALS: Will Success Spoil Jayne Mansfield - 2 pages of photos with text by Earl Wilson.
FEATURES: Fiction: Mary by John Collier and Crack Of Doom by Don Marquis (full page illustration by Leroy Neiman; Travel: How To Get Stoned on Fifty Cents; Article: The Long Blue Nose of the Law, by Noble and Averbuch; Profile of Stan Kenton by Bill Russo (with great photos by Herman Leonard); Boxing 1956 by Ed Pazdur; satire: Playright on a Hot Tin Roof by Ray Russell.
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG
Playboy August 1955
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Joanne Arnold
PLAYMATE: Pat Lawler
PICTORIALS: Gowland's Cool Pool, photos by Peter Gowland of model Joanne Arnold
FEATURES: Fiction, The Croooked Man by Charles Beaumont; Uncle Fred Flits By by P. G. Wodehouse; article, Don't Hate Yourself by Jules Archer; satire, Sex In Business by Shepherd Mead
PAGES: 56
CONDITION: VG+
PLAYMATE: Pat Lawler
PICTORIALS: Gowland's Cool Pool, photos by Peter Gowland of model Joanne Arnold
FEATURES: Fiction, The Croooked Man by Charles Beaumont; Uncle Fred Flits By by P. G. Wodehouse; article, Don't Hate Yourself by Jules Archer; satire, Sex In Business by Shepherd Mead
PAGES: 56
CONDITION: VG+
Playboy November 1955
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Barbara Cameron
PLAYMATE: Barbara Cameron
Interview: Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins and J. J. Johnson
PICTORIALS: Gina Lollobrigida; West Coast Strippers
FEATURES: Fiction, Burnt Toast by Mack Reynolds; All Married women Are Bad, Yes? by Herbert Gold; profile of Jonathan Winters by Victor Lownes III
PAGES: 64
CONDITION: VG+
PLAYMATE: Barbara Cameron
Interview: Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins and J. J. Johnson
PICTORIALS: Gina Lollobrigida; West Coast Strippers
FEATURES: Fiction, Burnt Toast by Mack Reynolds; All Married women Are Bad, Yes? by Herbert Gold; profile of Jonathan Winters by Victor Lownes III
PAGES: 64
CONDITION: VG+
Playboy July 1956
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Suitcase
PLAYMATE: Alice Denham
PICTORIALS: Actress Marla English, "The Girl In The Peek-A-Boo Pants". The pictorial is supposed to be Ms. English's swan song as the Hollywood mavens wish her to keep her clothes on.
FEATURES: George Wein, the original promoter, covers the 3rd Newport Jazz Festival with super photos of Dinah Washington, Pee Wee Russell, Paul Desmond, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman , Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan and others; early LeRoy Neiman sketches in the attire article; Ribald Calssic is "The Woman in the Case," by Anton Chekhov; three pages of Clemtine cartoons by artist Jean Bellus; satire, "The Catcher in the Wry," by Robert Turner; fiction by Alberto Maravia, "The Truckdriver"; Anthony Boucher, "Nellthu"; Playmate Alice Denham also has a fiction story in this issue, "The Deal."
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG+
PLAYMATE: Alice Denham
PICTORIALS: Actress Marla English, "The Girl In The Peek-A-Boo Pants". The pictorial is supposed to be Ms. English's swan song as the Hollywood mavens wish her to keep her clothes on.
FEATURES: George Wein, the original promoter, covers the 3rd Newport Jazz Festival with super photos of Dinah Washington, Pee Wee Russell, Paul Desmond, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman , Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan and others; early LeRoy Neiman sketches in the attire article; Ribald Calssic is "The Woman in the Case," by Anton Chekhov; three pages of Clemtine cartoons by artist Jean Bellus; satire, "The Catcher in the Wry," by Robert Turner; fiction by Alberto Maravia, "The Truckdriver"; Anthony Boucher, "Nellthu"; Playmate Alice Denham also has a fiction story in this issue, "The Deal."
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG+
Playboy August 1956
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Paintings
PLAYMATE: Jonnie Nicely
PICTORIALS: "The Ekberg Bronze", features three pages plus four page B&W insert of Swedish actress Anita Ekberg in figure studies for sculptor Sepy Dobronyi; pictorial: "Piltdown Painting Party" showcases trendy "bohemian" Chicagoans out on a graffiti painting spree of downtown road underpasses.
FEATURES: Article by novelist Evelyn Waugh, "The Death of Painting," decries the faults of modern art; fiction, "You Can't Have Then All" by Charles Beaumont; "Ad Lib Exit" by Willard Marsh; 4-page insert of cartoons by Shel Silverstein (1st appearance).
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: G+
PLAYMATE: Jonnie Nicely
PICTORIALS: "The Ekberg Bronze", features three pages plus four page B&W insert of Swedish actress Anita Ekberg in figure studies for sculptor Sepy Dobronyi; pictorial: "Piltdown Painting Party" showcases trendy "bohemian" Chicagoans out on a graffiti painting spree of downtown road underpasses.
FEATURES: Article by novelist Evelyn Waugh, "The Death of Painting," decries the faults of modern art; fiction, "You Can't Have Then All" by Charles Beaumont; "Ad Lib Exit" by Willard Marsh; 4-page insert of cartoons by Shel Silverstein (1st appearance).
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: G+
Playboy March 1957
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Marian Stafford
PLAYMATE: Marian Stafford (first fold-out Playmate)
PICTORIALS: An Evening With Eve- 2 pages of Eve Meyer (photos by Russ Meyer)
FEATURES: Fiction by D. K. Broster, Couching At The Door,and Herbert Gold, The Psychodynamist; Articles: by Ray Bradbury, The First Night of Lent; Jules Archer, The Great Guessing Game; 2 pages of cartoons by Peter Porges, Porges Painters; Ribald Classic by Voltaire, The Pitfalls of Prettiness.
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG+
PLAYMATE: Marian Stafford (first fold-out Playmate)
PICTORIALS: An Evening With Eve- 2 pages of Eve Meyer (photos by Russ Meyer)
FEATURES: Fiction by D. K. Broster, Couching At The Door,and Herbert Gold, The Psychodynamist; Articles: by Ray Bradbury, The First Night of Lent; Jules Archer, The Great Guessing Game; 2 pages of cartoons by Peter Porges, Porges Painters; Ribald Classic by Voltaire, The Pitfalls of Prettiness.
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG+
Playboy May 1956
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Dolores Taylor
PLAYMATE: Marion Scott
PICTORIALS: Singer Meg Myles - The Lynx with the Lusty Larynx; Jazz Record Jackets Go Jazzy - pictorial review of some of the more creative LP jackets of the day inclduing Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Hampton and Getz and others.
FEATURES: Fiction: The Splendid Source by Richard Matheson; The Shooting of Judge Price by Erskine Caldwell; The Monster Show by Charles Beaumont; Personality Profile of Victor Borge; Humor from Arv Miller; Satire, Training Your First Wife by Shepherd Mead; article on Jazz Record Jackets.
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG+
PLAYMATE: Marion Scott
PICTORIALS: Singer Meg Myles - The Lynx with the Lusty Larynx; Jazz Record Jackets Go Jazzy - pictorial review of some of the more creative LP jackets of the day inclduing Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Hampton and Getz and others.
FEATURES: Fiction: The Splendid Source by Richard Matheson; The Shooting of Judge Price by Erskine Caldwell; The Monster Show by Charles Beaumont; Personality Profile of Victor Borge; Humor from Arv Miller; Satire, Training Your First Wife by Shepherd Mead; article on Jazz Record Jackets.
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG+
Playboy September 1956
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Diane Harmsen
PLAYMATE: Dane Arden
PICTORIALS: "Filming the Follies Bergere" is five pages of the showgirls and stars of the famous Paris theater.
FEATURES: "Hemingway," by Jed kiley, profiles the famous author through personal experiences with him in Paris; a massive 8-page layout on Playboy's Penthouse Apartment, complete with drawings; John Lardner profiles Floyd Patterson, then eyeing the heavyweight crown (with photos); fiction by John Wallace, "Get Out Of My Life"; Robert Sheckley, "Love Incorporated"; two fashion drawings by LeRoy Neiman for the attire section.
PAGES: 80
CONDITION: VG+
PLAYMATE: Dane Arden
PICTORIALS: "Filming the Follies Bergere" is five pages of the showgirls and stars of the famous Paris theater.
FEATURES: "Hemingway," by Jed kiley, profiles the famous author through personal experiences with him in Paris; a massive 8-page layout on Playboy's Penthouse Apartment, complete with drawings; John Lardner profiles Floyd Patterson, then eyeing the heavyweight crown (with photos); fiction by John Wallace, "Get Out Of My Life"; Robert Sheckley, "Love Incorporated"; two fashion drawings by LeRoy Neiman for the attire section.
PAGES: 80
CONDITION: VG+
Playboy October 1956
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Joan Bradshaw
PLAYMATE: Janet Pilgrim
PICTORIALS: Janet Pilgrim's date at Dartmouth; For Export Only - scenes from European films.
FEATURES: Fiction: The Right Kind of Pride by Herbeert Gold; Hospitality by Lesley Conger; A Pound of Flesh by Anson Mount; Hemingway: A Ttitle Bout in Ten Rounds by Jed Kiley; A second look at Playboy's penthouse apartment - the bedroom, study and bath; Playboy Jazz Poll.
PAGES: 88
CONDITION: VG+
PLAYMATE: Janet Pilgrim
PICTORIALS: Janet Pilgrim's date at Dartmouth; For Export Only - scenes from European films.
FEATURES: Fiction: The Right Kind of Pride by Herbeert Gold; Hospitality by Lesley Conger; A Pound of Flesh by Anson Mount; Hemingway: A Ttitle Bout in Ten Rounds by Jed Kiley; A second look at Playboy's penthouse apartment - the bedroom, study and bath; Playboy Jazz Poll.
PAGES: 88
CONDITION: VG+
Playboy November 1956
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Mr. Playboy in elevator
PLAYMATE: Betty Blue
PICTORIALS: The Lock on the Barroom Door - article by Jonathan Rhoades with photos by Mike Shea details Chicago's Gaslight key club with scantily clad waitresses and upscale acoutrements, a precursor of Hefner's very own Playboy Clubs.
FEATURES: Fiction: A Flourish of Strumpets by Richard Matheson, The Lover of the Coral Glades by Adrian Conan Doyle, and The Flip Side by Charles Einstein; Humor: Falconry: Who Needs It? by P.G. Wodehouse; article on Nat King Cole in the studio; "pastiche" on Hemingway by Jed Kiley; Satire: Selecting Your Second Wife by Shepherd Mead.
PAGES: 88
CONDITION: VG-
PLAYMATE: Betty Blue
PICTORIALS: The Lock on the Barroom Door - article by Jonathan Rhoades with photos by Mike Shea details Chicago's Gaslight key club with scantily clad waitresses and upscale acoutrements, a precursor of Hefner's very own Playboy Clubs.
FEATURES: Fiction: A Flourish of Strumpets by Richard Matheson, The Lover of the Coral Glades by Adrian Conan Doyle, and The Flip Side by Charles Einstein; Humor: Falconry: Who Needs It? by P.G. Wodehouse; article on Nat King Cole in the studio; "pastiche" on Hemingway by Jed Kiley; Satire: Selecting Your Second Wife by Shepherd Mead.
PAGES: 88
CONDITION: VG-
Playboy June 1956
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Sally Todd (cover also states: "Now Printing 1,000,000 Copies")
PLAYMATE: Gloria Walker
PICTORIALS: Champagne Flight to Vegas - Playmate Sally Tood and her jet-setting date.
FEATURES: Fiction: A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury; Nunc Dimittis by Roald Dahl; Compendium on Chess with pictorial, fiction and article on how to improve your game and a short history of chess; Humor: The Darendinger Build-Up by William F. Nolan.
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG-
PLAYMATE: Gloria Walker
PICTORIALS: Champagne Flight to Vegas - Playmate Sally Tood and her jet-setting date.
FEATURES: Fiction: A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury; Nunc Dimittis by Roald Dahl; Compendium on Chess with pictorial, fiction and article on how to improve your game and a short history of chess; Humor: The Darendinger Build-Up by William F. Nolan.
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG-
Playboy December 1956
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Lisa Winters
PLAYMATE: Lisa Winters
PICTORIALS: Tallulah's Follies - features the off-Broadway show starring Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Haney and Joan Diener.
FEATURES: 3rd Anniversary Issue; Hemingway, a Pastiche by Jed Kiley; Fiction: The Bitch In Heat by Robert Slater; The Dark Music by Charles Beaumont; The Hundred Dollar Suicide by Henry George Felsen; preview and review of Broadway's season; Jazz Poll Report; Satire: Conceiving Can Be Fun by Shepherd Mead; Confessions of an American Button Man by Shel Silverstein; Etching Revisited.
PAGES: 88
CONDITION: VG+
PLAYMATE: Lisa Winters
PICTORIALS: Tallulah's Follies - features the off-Broadway show starring Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Haney and Joan Diener.
FEATURES: 3rd Anniversary Issue; Hemingway, a Pastiche by Jed Kiley; Fiction: The Bitch In Heat by Robert Slater; The Dark Music by Charles Beaumont; The Hundred Dollar Suicide by Henry George Felsen; preview and review of Broadway's season; Jazz Poll Report; Satire: Conceiving Can Be Fun by Shepherd Mead; Confessions of an American Button Man by Shel Silverstein; Etching Revisited.
PAGES: 88
CONDITION: VG+
Playboy January 1957
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: All 1956 Playmates
PLAYMATE: June Blair
PICTORIALS: Playmate Review features all of the 1956 Playmates including Janet Pilgrim, Elsa Sorensen, Johnnie Nicely, Marion Scott and the rest in a five page layout.
FEATURES: Fiction, In a Season of Calm Weather by Ray Bradbury with three pen and ink drawings by Pablo Picasso (two full page), The Hustler by Walter S. Tevis (The Queen's Gambit), and The Mask and the Maiden by John Collier; New Year's Resolutions by George Jessel, Fed Astaire, Jimmy Durante, Phil Silvers and others in a series of short articles; satire, The Handling of Women in Business by Shephrd Mead; Patrick Chase on Travels in Mexico.
PAGES: 80
CONDITION: G
PLAYMATE: June Blair
PICTORIALS: Playmate Review features all of the 1956 Playmates including Janet Pilgrim, Elsa Sorensen, Johnnie Nicely, Marion Scott and the rest in a five page layout.
FEATURES: Fiction, In a Season of Calm Weather by Ray Bradbury with three pen and ink drawings by Pablo Picasso (two full page), The Hustler by Walter S. Tevis (The Queen's Gambit), and The Mask and the Maiden by John Collier; New Year's Resolutions by George Jessel, Fed Astaire, Jimmy Durante, Phil Silvers and others in a series of short articles; satire, The Handling of Women in Business by Shephrd Mead; Patrick Chase on Travels in Mexico.
PAGES: 80
CONDITION: G
Playboy March 1957
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Mr. Playboy with Binoculars
PLAYMATE: Sandra Edwards
PICTORIALS: Zsa Zsa Gabor in Las Vegas; The Vargas Girl with commentary by John Campbell, marks Alberto Vargas' first appearance in Playboy with five pages of outstanding illustrations.
FEATURES: Playboy's 4th Annual Boxing Preview by John Lardner, featuring: Floyd Patterson, Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson, Willie Pastrano, Eddie Machen, Archie Moore, Chuck Spieser, Willi Besmanoff, Gene Fullmer, Sugar Ray Robinson, Joey Giardello, Ellsworth "Spider" Webb, Carmen Basilio, Tony De Marco and many others; A pastiche on Hemingway by Jed Kiley; fiction, Night Ride by Charles Beaumont, The Decent Thing to Do by Dion Henderson, and Triplicate Twisteroo by Fredric Brown; articles, The Gray Flannel Beachcomber by Avery Atwood and Cockpit Capers by Roger Wilco.
PAGES: 80
CONDITION: G- Spine Is Split to First Staple From Top Down
PLAYMATE: Sandra Edwards
PICTORIALS: Zsa Zsa Gabor in Las Vegas; The Vargas Girl with commentary by John Campbell, marks Alberto Vargas' first appearance in Playboy with five pages of outstanding illustrations.
FEATURES: Playboy's 4th Annual Boxing Preview by John Lardner, featuring: Floyd Patterson, Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson, Willie Pastrano, Eddie Machen, Archie Moore, Chuck Spieser, Willi Besmanoff, Gene Fullmer, Sugar Ray Robinson, Joey Giardello, Ellsworth "Spider" Webb, Carmen Basilio, Tony De Marco and many others; A pastiche on Hemingway by Jed Kiley; fiction, Night Ride by Charles Beaumont, The Decent Thing to Do by Dion Henderson, and Triplicate Twisteroo by Fredric Brown; articles, The Gray Flannel Beachcomber by Avery Atwood and Cockpit Capers by Roger Wilco.
PAGES: 80
CONDITION: G- Spine Is Split to First Staple From Top Down
Playboy February 1957
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Jayne Mansfield
PLAYMATE: Sally Todd
PICTORIALS: The New Jayne Mansfield - Five stunning pages of Ms. Mansfield.
FEATURES: The 1957 Playboy Jazz All-Stars includes super photos of Benny Goodman, Stan Getz, Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kenton, Frank Sinatra and others; Fiction, The Traveling Salesman by Robert Bloch, The 44-Year-Old Boy Disc Jockey by Herbert Gold, and A Second Father by Budd Schulberg; Silverstein and Cole team up on A Valentine for Her; satire, Make Mine Mulligatawny! by william Iversen; Pamela Moore asks if American men are ashamed of sex in Love In The Dark; Blake Rutherford reviews fashion collector's items.
PAGES: 80
CONDITION: VG+
PLAYMATE: Sally Todd
PICTORIALS: The New Jayne Mansfield - Five stunning pages of Ms. Mansfield.
FEATURES: The 1957 Playboy Jazz All-Stars includes super photos of Benny Goodman, Stan Getz, Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kenton, Frank Sinatra and others; Fiction, The Traveling Salesman by Robert Bloch, The 44-Year-Old Boy Disc Jockey by Herbert Gold, and A Second Father by Budd Schulberg; Silverstein and Cole team up on A Valentine for Her; satire, Make Mine Mulligatawny! by william Iversen; Pamela Moore asks if American men are ashamed of sex in Love In The Dark; Blake Rutherford reviews fashion collector's items.
PAGES: 80
CONDITION: VG+
Playboy April 1957
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Elaine Conte
PLAYMATE: Gloria Windsor
PICTORIALS: SEXONLEX-the most pulchritude-packed palazzo in all of New York - article and photos by Carl Bakal, describes the hustle of 480 Lexington Avenue, a block-long building filled with the studios of advertising photographers and frequented by gorgeous models.
FEATURES: Fiction, The Sergeant and the Slave Girl by T. K. Brown III, All Through The Night by Nelson Algren, and Victory Parade by Henry Slesar; humor, The Power of Positive Thinking by William Iversen; The Compleat Sports Car Stable; Exurbanites at Play by A.C. Spectorsky (Spec); Hemingway - Pastiche, by Jed Kiley; Ribald Classic is The Wayward Wife by Guy De Maupassant.
PAGES: 80
CONDITION: VG+
PLAYMATE: Gloria Windsor
PICTORIALS: SEXONLEX-the most pulchritude-packed palazzo in all of New York - article and photos by Carl Bakal, describes the hustle of 480 Lexington Avenue, a block-long building filled with the studios of advertising photographers and frequented by gorgeous models.
FEATURES: Fiction, The Sergeant and the Slave Girl by T. K. Brown III, All Through The Night by Nelson Algren, and Victory Parade by Henry Slesar; humor, The Power of Positive Thinking by William Iversen; The Compleat Sports Car Stable; Exurbanites at Play by A.C. Spectorsky (Spec); Hemingway - Pastiche, by Jed Kiley; Ribald Classic is The Wayward Wife by Guy De Maupassant.
PAGES: 80
CONDITION: VG+
Playboy May 1957
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Steamship collage by Art Paul
PLAYMATE: Dawn Richard
PICTORIALS: Li'l Abner's Gals by comic strip creator Al Kapp, presents the cast of the Broadway play, including Daisy Mae played by Edith Adams, Moonbeam McSwine (Carmen Alvarez), Stupefyin' Jones (Julie Newmar), and Appassionata Van Climax (Tina Louise),The Postal Peel of Peaches Page - an enterprising British stripper uses the postal system to her unique advantage.
FEATURES: Fiction, Master of the Revels by Al Morgan, The Not Nice Guy by Herbert Gold; Little Land of the Big Wheel by John Sack, explores the inner workings of Monaco; humor, The French They Are a Funny Race by William Iversen, and Return to Tokyo by Shel Silverstein; Tiger Hunt in Cooch Behar by Prakash C. Jain with photos from India.
PAGES: 80
CONDITION: VG
PLAYMATE: Dawn Richard
PICTORIALS: Li'l Abner's Gals by comic strip creator Al Kapp, presents the cast of the Broadway play, including Daisy Mae played by Edith Adams, Moonbeam McSwine (Carmen Alvarez), Stupefyin' Jones (Julie Newmar), and Appassionata Van Climax (Tina Louise),The Postal Peel of Peaches Page - an enterprising British stripper uses the postal system to her unique advantage.
FEATURES: Fiction, Master of the Revels by Al Morgan, The Not Nice Guy by Herbert Gold; Little Land of the Big Wheel by John Sack, explores the inner workings of Monaco; humor, The French They Are a Funny Race by William Iversen, and Return to Tokyo by Shel Silverstein; Tiger Hunt in Cooch Behar by Prakash C. Jain with photos from India.
PAGES: 80
CONDITION: VG
Playboy June 1957
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Bunny Logo Cufflinks
PLAYMATE: Carrie Radison
PICTORIALS: Winters, the WinnerLisa Winters (Playboy readers' favorite Playmate from 1956); The Back- VikKi Dougan in low-cut outfits.
FEATURES: Fiction by George Langelaan, The Fly; the phemomena of Rock 'n' Roll is discussed in Rock 'n' Rollby Jazz columnist Leonard Feather; profile of comedian Mort Sahl in A Real Free Form Guyby Rolf Malcomb; satire, Enter the Handsome Stranger by Ray Russell; first appearnace of LeRoy Neiman's Femlin on Party Jokes page; and a superb full-page photo of Hugh Hefner on page three opposite "Playbill."
PAGES: 88
CONDITION: VG+
PLAYMATE: Carrie Radison
PICTORIALS: Winters, the WinnerLisa Winters (Playboy readers' favorite Playmate from 1956); The Back- VikKi Dougan in low-cut outfits.
FEATURES: Fiction by George Langelaan, The Fly; the phemomena of Rock 'n' Roll is discussed in Rock 'n' Rollby Jazz columnist Leonard Feather; profile of comedian Mort Sahl in A Real Free Form Guyby Rolf Malcomb; satire, Enter the Handsome Stranger by Ray Russell; first appearnace of LeRoy Neiman's Femlin on Party Jokes page; and a superb full-page photo of Hugh Hefner on page three opposite "Playbill."
PAGES: 88
CONDITION: VG+
Playboy July 1957
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Lisa Winters
PLAYMATE: Jean Jani
PICTORIALS: Playboy's Yatch Party with plenty of photos of the models (first names only given) - Lisa ( Winters, cover girl), Sheila, Shirley and Dawn.
FEATURES: Fiction, Mistress of Porcosito by Gerald Kersh, A Very Human Story by Henry Swados, and The Champion of Outer Mongolia by Archie Oldham; humor, Silverstein in Scandinavia and The Sinister Trade Mark Plot by William Iversen.
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG
PLAYMATE: Jean Jani
PICTORIALS: Playboy's Yatch Party with plenty of photos of the models (first names only given) - Lisa ( Winters, cover girl), Sheila, Shirley and Dawn.
FEATURES: Fiction, Mistress of Porcosito by Gerald Kersh, A Very Human Story by Henry Swados, and The Champion of Outer Mongolia by Archie Oldham; humor, Silverstein in Scandinavia and The Sinister Trade Mark Plot by William Iversen.
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG
Playboy August 1957
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Dolores Donlon
PLAYMATE: Dolores Donlon
PICTORIALS: The View from the Penthouse - voyeuristic pictorial - shot from above - of a girl stripping down for nude sunbathing.
FEATURES: Fiction, Incident off Land's End by Jacob Hay, Balance Sheet by Morton Fineman, and Do Nice Artistic Girls? by Herbert Gold; Humor, Take Your Seats by Ray Russell; pastiche, Hemingway by Jed Kiley; 2 pages of sports car cartoons, Denison's Sports Cars; Profile of magazine model Lionel Wiggam.
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG+
PLAYMATE: Dolores Donlon
PICTORIALS: The View from the Penthouse - voyeuristic pictorial - shot from above - of a girl stripping down for nude sunbathing.
FEATURES: Fiction, Incident off Land's End by Jacob Hay, Balance Sheet by Morton Fineman, and Do Nice Artistic Girls? by Herbert Gold; Humor, Take Your Seats by Ray Russell; pastiche, Hemingway by Jed Kiley; 2 pages of sports car cartoons, Denison's Sports Cars; Profile of magazine model Lionel Wiggam.
PAGES: 72
CONDITION: VG+
Playboy December 1957
OriginalItem Location - Address: 230 Ridgeland AveItem Location - City: FremontItem Location - State/Province: NebraskaItem Location - Postal/Zip Code: 68025Item Location - Country: United StatesItem Location - County: Dodge County, NEAbsolute
COVER: Linda Vargas, Lisa Winters
PLAYMATE: Linda Vargas
Interview: Hugh Hefner (interviewed by Mike Wallace)
PICTORIALS: Alone with Lisa - 4 pages of Lisa Winters.
FEATURES: 4th Anniversary Issue: Vance Packard: The Manipulators ; Ralph Malcolm: The Little World of Harvey Kurtzman ; Harlan Draper: Quotemanship ; H. Allen Smith: The Impolite Sex ; John Sack: Right Little, Tight Little Island; Budd Schulberg, fiction: The Barracudas ; Gerald Kersh, fiction: Something On His Mind ; Thomas Mario: Your Just Desserts ; Jules Janin: The Loveliest Ladder ; Patrick Chase: International Datebook [February Delights]
PAGES: 88
CONDITION:
PLAYMATE: Linda Vargas
Interview: Hugh Hefner (interviewed by Mike Wallace)
PICTORIALS: Alone with Lisa - 4 pages of Lisa Winters.
FEATURES: 4th Anniversary Issue: Vance Packard: The Manipulators ; Ralph Malcolm: The Little World of Harvey Kurtzman ; Harlan Draper: Quotemanship ; H. Allen Smith: The Impolite Sex ; John Sack: Right Little, Tight Little Island; Budd Schulberg, fiction: The Barracudas ; Gerald Kersh, fiction: Something On His Mind ; Thomas Mario: Your Just Desserts ; Jules Janin: The Loveliest Ladder ; Patrick Chase: International Datebook [February Delights]
PAGES: 88
CONDITION: