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January, 1955

Vol. 2 No. 2 issue. Bettie Page Playmate, Artist’s Ball Pictorial (with Tina Louise, others), Fiction by Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck Erskine Caldwell

Not Available

NA

February, 1955

Jayne Mansfield Playmate. Boxing 1955, Fiction by John Jakes

G/VG

$200.00

March, 1955

No issue published

 

 

April, 1955

Playmate – Marilyn Weltz, Naked Advertising Pictorial, Fiction by P.G. Wodehouse

G/VG

$125.00

May, 1955

Playmate – Margueritte Empey. Double Exposure Pictorial (Bettie Page, Bunny Yeager, others), Fiction by Irwin Shaw

G/VG

$125.00

June, 1955

Playmate – Eve Meyer. All-Star Jazz Band, Ronald Searle Sketchbook, Illustrator’s Show, Fiction by John Collier

G/VG

$100.00

July, 1955

Playmate – Janet Pilgrim. Fiction by Michael Arlen, Herbert Gold

Good

$100.00

August, 1955

Playmate – Pat Lawler. New Jazz Audience by Dave Brubeck, Woodcuts by John Held Jr., Fiction by P.G. Wodehouse

G/VG

$100.00

October, 1955

College Issue. Playmate – Jean Moorehead. Anita Ekberg Pictorial, Fiction by Thorne Smith, James Jones, Anson Mount

G/VG

$100.00

November, 1955

Playmate – Barbara Cameron. Gina Lollobrigida, West Coast Strippers, Jonathan Winters

G/VG

$100.00

December, 1955

A Holiday Evening with Janet Pilgrim (Playmate). Mabel Mercer, Fiction by Ray Bradbury, Nudist Wedding by Earl Wilson

G/VG

$100.00

 

January, 1956

Holiday Issue. 9 Pages of Playmate Photographs. Playmate – Lynn Turner. First 2 Dozen Playmates, Fiction by Erskine Caldwell, Robert Bloch

G/VG

$50.00

February, 1956

Playmate – Marguerite Empey. Will Success Spoil Jayne Mansfield by Earl Wilson, Boxing 1956, Stan Kenton, Fiction by John Collier, Don Marquis

G/VG

$75.00

 

Same

Fair/Good, stain, cover scuff

$15.00

March, 1956

Playboy’s TV Playmate (First Centerfold Foldout) – Marian Stafford. The First Night of Lent by Ray Bradbury

G/VG

$60.00

April, 1956

Playmate – Rusty Fisher. Benny Goodman on Jazz, Diana Dors, Fiction by Roald Dahl

G/VG

$60.00

May, 1956

Victor Borge, Fiction by Erskine Caldwell

G/VG, centerfold missing

$15.00

June, 1956

Playmate – Gloria Walker. June Wilkinson, Chess Articles, Fiction by Ray Bradbury

G/VG, cover crease

$50.00

July, 1956

Playmate – Alice Denham. Newport Jazz Festival, Fiction by Alice Denham

G/VG, back cover 2” tear

$40.00

August, 1956

Playmate – Jonnie Nicely. Dobronyi Sculpture insert, The Death of Painting by Evelyn Waugh, Isles of Greece, Shel Silverstein

G/VG

$50.00

September, 1956

Playmate – Elsa Sorensen. Hemingway Profile, Boxing by John Lardner, Haiti, Filming the Folies Bergere, Playboy’s Penthouse Apartment

G/VG

$60.00

 

Same

G/VG, centerfold missing

$15.00

November, 1956

Playmate – Betty Blue. Fiction by P.G. Wodehouse, Adrian Conan Doyle

G/VG

$50.00

 

Same

G/VG, last page missing

$20.00

December, 1956

Third Anniversary Issue. Playmate – Lisa Winters. Broadway, Hemingway, Playboy’s Christmas Cards

G/VG

$60.00

 

January, 1957

Holiday Issue

G/VG

$30.00

May, 1957

Al Capp, Shel Silverstein

G/VG

$30.00

June, 1957

Rock N Roll

G/VG

$30.00

July, 1957

Playboy’s Yacht Party. Silverstein in Scandinavia – 2 copies

G/VG

$30.00

November, 1957

Poker from Stud to Strip, Bullfighting, Jazz with Ella and the Duke, Loren vs. Mansfield

G/VG

$30.00

December, 1957

Christmas Issue, 4th Anniversary Issue.  Fiction by Budd Schulberg, Gerald Kersh, Mike Wallace Interviews Playboy

G/VG

$40.00

 

Same

Good

$30.00

 

February, 1958

Nude Jayne Mansfield, 1958 Jazz All-Stars

Not Available

NA

May, 1958

Country Club Playmate

Not Available

NA

August, 1958

Models

Good

$25.00

September, 1958

Playboy’s College Playmate – Teri Hope. Football Preview, The Bosom

Good

$25.00

December, 1958

Fifth Anniversary Issue. Most Popular Playmates, Fiction by Steve Allen, Garson Kanin

G/VG

$40.00

 

January, 1959

 Holiday Issue. Playmate Review, Fiction by Marion Hargrove, P.G. Wodehouse, Ben Hecht

G/VG

$40.00

February, 1959

1959 Playboy Jazz All Stars, Lenny Bruce profile

G/VG

$25.00

March, 1959

Silverstein in Spain, Stereo Equipment

G/VG

$25.00

April, 1959

Playboy Weekend Hideaway, Tina Louise

Good

$20.00

June, 1959

Girl on Scooter cover. Origins of the Beat Generation by Jack Kerouac

Good

$20.00

August, 1959

Bosom in Hollywood, Silverstein Among the Arabs, Chicago – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

September, 1959

Pigskin Preview, Miss America Joke – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

 

Same

G/VG – no centerfold

$10.00

October, 1959

Kim Novak, Elaine Stewart, Silverstein in Africa, Jazz Poll

G/VG

$25.00

November, 1959

And So to Bed, Bedroom Attire, Sleep, Satire by Andy Rooney

G/VG

$30.00

December, 1959

Sixth Anniversary Issue. Fiction by Jack Kerouac, Roald Dahl, Sherlock Holmes Satire by Gahan Wilson

G/VG

$50.00

 

February, 1960

Best of Jayne Mansfield, Jeeves Novel by P.G. Wodehouse, 1960 Jazz Poll Winners, The Real Lady Chatterley by Harvey Kurtzman

G/VG

$50.00

April, 1960

Home Movie Equipment for Fun. Fiction by Rex Lardner, Ken Purdy, “The Oscar Syndrome” by Dalton Trumbo

Good, loose centerfold

$15.00

 

Same

Good, small edge stain

$15.00

May, 1960

Warm Weather Fashion, Festival in Cannes, Compact Cars, “I Remember Babylon” by Arthur C. Clarke

G/VG

$20.00

July, 1960

Rocket to the Renaissance by Arthur C. Clarke, Photographers and Models Ball Pictorial, Fiction by John Wallace

G/VG

$30.00

August, 1960

All About the Playboy Key Club. Fiction by Ray Bradbury, The Golfer by Silverstein, Miles Davis profile

G/VG

$25.00

September, 1960

Playboy Sports Car, Frankfurters, Silverstein in Greenwich Village

G/VG

$25.00

October, 1960

Carl Sandburg Portfolio, Girls of Hollywood

G/VG

$30.00

November, 1960

Playboy in Acapulco, Dope Addiction and the Jazz Musician, Hollywood Nostalgia by Ben Hecht,

G/VG

$25.00

December, 1960

Seventh Anniversary Issue. Marilyn Monroe Pictorial, Humor by Art Buchwald & Herb Caen, Fiction by Ray Bradbury, Roger Price

G/VG

$40.00

 

January, 1961

Holiday Issue. 5-page Playmate Review, Hemingway Speaks His Mind, Jules Feiffer

G/VG

$40.00

February, 1961

1961 Jazz Poll, Success in Business by J. Paul Getty, Girls of New York

Good, cover stain, centerfold missing

$15.00

March, 1961

The Illustrated Woman by Ray Bradbury, Nudes in Hollywood Films, Comedians Panel (Lenny Bruce, Steve Allen, Jonathan Winters, others), The Ferrari, Marlon Brando

G/VG

$35.00

April, 1961

Playmate of the Year, Girls of La Vie Parisienne

G/VG

$25.00

May, 1961

Gambling Systems, Silverstein in Alaska, Girls of Sweden, Fiction by John Crosby

G/VG

$25.00

June, 1961

Making a Million Today by J Paul Getty, Pancakes, Grand Prix

Good

$20.00

July, 1961

The Jazz Singers, Contemporary Furniture Design, Panel on Sex and Censorship, Arthur C. Clarke

Good

$20.00

August, 1961

Classic Cars of the Thirties, Girls of Hawaii

Good

$20.00

September, 1961

Miami Playboy Club, Short History of Swearing, Nude View of TV, Pigskin Preview

G/VG

$25.00

October, 1961

Fall and Winter Fashions – photos by Richard Avedon, J. Paul Getty, Short History of Bathing – 2 copies

G/VG

$25.00

November, 1961

Anita Ekberg, Playboy Panel on Trouble in TV-Land (Serling, Susskind, others), Playboy in Tokyo

G/VG

$25.00

December, 1961

8th Anniversary Issue. My Brother Ernest Hemingway, Wall Street by J. Paul Getty, Playboy Parties, Drinking Customs by Alec Waugh

Good, spine splitting

$20.00

 

Same

Fair/Good, stained

$10.00

 

May, 1962

Playboy Town House, What Makes an Executive by J. Paul Getty, Francoise Sagan, Ben Hecht, Vargas

Not Available

NA

October, 1962

Robert Ruark, James Jones, Harvey Kurtzman, Fashions, Gerald Kersh

G/VG

$20.00

November, 1962

Little Annie Fanny by Kurtzman & Elder – debut, Ben Hecht, Playmates from History

Good, corner stain

$20.00

 

March, 1963

Bertrand Russell Interview, Graham Green, Playboy Cars

Good – ink on cover

$15.00

June, 1963

Jayne Mansfield Pictorial, Ray Bradbury fiction, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” by Ian Fleming

Not Available

NA

July, 1963

The Bunnies – 12 pages, 1984 & Beyond Predictions – Panel (Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, Van Vogt, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Poul Anderson, Rod Serling, others), Small Boats

G/VG

$25.00

August, 1963

Shel Silverstein in a Nudist Camp, J. Paul Getty, Bernard Malamud,

Good

$20.00

September, 1963

Europe’s New Sex Sirens, Interview with Richard Burton by Kenneth Tynan, J. Paul Getty, Ray Bradbury

Not Available

NA

 

January, 1964

10th Annivesary Issue. Ian Fleming, Picasso, P.G. Wodehouse, Vladimir Nabokov, Marilyn Monroe Tribute, James Baldwin, Bertrand Russell, Lenny Bruce

Not Available

NA

February, 1964

Special Jazz & Hi-Fi Issue. Jazz Poll Winners, Playboy Record Library, Mamie Van Doren, P.G. Wodehouse, Richard Burton, Playboy Jazz Panel

Not Available

NA

March, 1964

Girls of Russia & The Iron Curtain, P.G. Wodehouse, J. Paul Getty, Arthur C. Clarke, Lenny Bruce

Not Available

NA

April, 1964

Peter Sellers Movie Parodies, Ian Fleming, Frederik Pohl fiction, Jean Genet Interview

Good

$20.00

June, 1964

Frederik Pohl, Ian Fleming, Mamie Van Doren, Ingmar Bergman Interview

Not Available

NA

July, 1964

Summer Fun Issue. Andre Maurois, Interview with Salvador Dali, William Saroyan fiction

G/VG

$25.00

September, 1964

Peter Sellers & Elke Sommer, Playboy in Jamaica, Football Preview, Ben Hecht, Henry Miller Interview

Not Available

NA

October, 1964

Ray Bradbury fiction, Cassius Clay Interview, Fashions, Ken Purdy

Not Available

NA

November, 1964

Girls of Germany, Arthur C. Clarke, Playboy Cars 1965, George Wallace Interview

Not Available

NA

December, 1964

Christmas Issue. Irwin Shaw, James Baldwin, Bertrand Russell, Ian Fleming, Jean Shepherd, Carroll Baker, Ian Fleming Interview

Not Available

NA

 

1965 Issues

Jan. (2), March, July, August, Sept. (2), Oct., Dec. (2)

Good to G/VG

$17.50 ea.

February, 1965

Jazz Poll Winners, The Beatles Interviewed, Kim Novak, Vladimir Nabokov

G/VG