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1966-01 Playboy Magazine Contents for January 1966

1966/01 — Vol. 13 No. 1. 262 pages.

Holiday Anniversary Issue

Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Interview: Princess Grace Kelly
  • The Wisdom of W. Somerset Maugham by W. Somerset Maugham
  • “The Last Act” — Fiction by Roald Dahl
  • Those Gilded Galas — Nostalgia by Lucius Beebe
  • John Held, Jr.: Creator of an Era – Nostalgia
  • Cheers! — Drink by Thomas Mario
  • “The Man Child” — Fiction by James Baldwin
  • Sex in the Stone Age — Humor by Richard Armour
  • The Playboy Mansion — Pictorial Essay
  • The Royal Smut-Hound — Article by Kenneth Tynan
  • The Parisians and the Germans — Memoir by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Living With Automation — Article by J. Paul Getty
  • Despair — Fiction by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Redhead! — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Judy Tyler
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • The Great Books of 2066 — Opinion by Mortimer Adler and Clifton Fadiman
  • Retroactive New Year’s Resolutions — Humor
  • Senor Discretion Himself — Fiction by Budd Schulberg
  • When Will the Demonstrations End? — Article by James Farmer
  • Playboy’s Playmate Review — Pictorial
  • Manhattan – Man at His Leisure by Leroy Neiman
  • Two-page fold-out Vargas Girl “He only needed one shot for the leopard, but it took most of a fifth to get me.”
  • Just Who Is J.D. Salinger? — Humor by H. Allen Smith
  • Flamenca’s Bath – Ribald Classic
  • The Eleventh-Hour Santa – Gifts
  • Going Naked on the Riviera — Article by Geoffrey Bocca
  • A Luncheon at the Ritz — Reminiscence by Bennett Cerf
  • Did I? — Satire by Jules Feiffer
  • Little Annie Fanny — Satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

    • 1966-09 Playboy Magazine Contents for September 1966

    1966/09 — Vol. 13 No. 9. 286 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Interview: Timothy Leary
  • “Buddy-Buddy” — Fiction by Garson Kanin
  • Jocelyn Lane — Heiress Apparent — Pictorial
  • “Rendezvous” — Fiction by John Christopher
  • It’s Superspa! — Reportage by Herbert Gold
  • “The Gold of Troy” — Fiction by Harry Mark Petrakis
  • Motorcycle Scavenger Hunt — Modern Living
  • The Cold Society — Article by Nat Hentoff
  • Instant Assignation — Humor by Dayton Herzog and Fabio Vargas
  • Illini Eyeful — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Dianne Chandler
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • Modified Mod — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • Nor Any Drop to Drink — Article by James Dugan
  • Playboy’s Pigskin Preview — Sports by Anson Mount
  • M’Lord’s Larder — Food by Thomas Mario
  • “All to Scale” — Fiction by Lawrence Durrell
  • Topless — Article/Pictorial
  • The America’s Cup — Man at His Leisure by Leroy Neiman
  • A Matter of Triple Duplicity — Ribald Classic
  • The History of Sex in Cinema — Part 10: The Forties – War and Peace in Europe — Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert
  • Back to Campus — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: John Barry – Gordon McLendon – Edward Keating
  • Two page Vargas Girl “He tried everything–flowers, jewelry, candy, furs–and they all worked.”
  • The Playboy Art Gallery — Humor by Jim Beaman
  • Little Annie Fanny — Satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

    • 1966-02 Playboy Magazine Contents for February 1966

    1966/02 — Vol. 13 No. 2. 192 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Interview: Federico Fellini
  • “How Simon Got His Bureau” — Part 3 of a Novel by Bernard Wolfe
  • European Fashion Dateline — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • “A Valentine” — Fiction by William Saroyan
  • Jazz ’66 by Nat Hentoff
  • “Despair” — Fiction by Vladimir Nabokov

  • Student Princess — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Melinda Windsor
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • A Little Lexicon of Love — Article by Ray Russell
  • Instant Gourmet Cookery — Food by Thomas Mario
  • Mood Ebony — Article by James Farmer
  • Patridge Shoot From Elephantback — Sports by Jack Denton Scott
  • The Girls of Rio – Pictorial Essay
  • Madam Filippa’s Defense — Ribald Classic by Boccaccio
  • Sights and Sounds of ’66 — Modern Living
  • The History of Sex in the Cinema – Part 7: The Thirties — Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert
  • Single page Vargas Girl – “I never go out with married men, so won’t you please come in?”
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Bart Lytton – William Dozier – Charles Weltner

    • 1966-10 Playboy Magazine Contents for October 1966

    1966/10 — Vol. 13 No. 10. 228 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Interview: Mel Brooks
  • “The Man in the Rorschach Shirt” — Fiction by Ray Bradbury
  • Ann-Margret as Art — Pictorial
  • “A Woman for Titus” — Fiction by Hugh Nissenson
  • Wiped Out! — Article by An Anonymous Investor
  • Limericks — Humor
  • Head Start/Body Boosters – Grooming
  • Let Joy Be Unconfirmed — Article by James Blish
  • A Playboy Pad: Texas Retreat — Modern Living
  • “Untitled” — Fiction by Ken W. Purdy
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Linda Moon
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • Playboy’s Fall and Winter Fashion Forecast — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • Like, Once Upon a Time — Satire by Larry Siegel
  • The 1967 Playboy Jazz Poll — Jazz
  • The Bawdy Bard — Satire by Jerry Yulsman

  • “First Aid for Freddie” — Fiction by P.G. Wodehouse
  • A Crafty Constable Confounded — Ribald Classic by Honore de Balzac
  • Theatrial Fare — Food by Thomas Mario
  • Tropic of Cuba — Article by Pietro Di Donato
  • The History of Sex in Cinema – Part 11: Sex Stars of the Forties– Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Bill Dana – Roman Polanski – Alan Arkin
  • Single page Vargas Girl “They’re watchdogs, Mr. Tate, but I usually don’t let them.”
  • Who’s Afraid of the Teevie Jeebies? — Satire
  • Little Annie Fanny — Satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

    • 1966-07 Playboy Magazine Contents for July 1966

    1966/07 — Vol. 13 No. 7. 170 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Interview: Ralph Ginzburg
  • One the Secret Service of HIs Majesty the Queen — Parody by Sol Weinstein
  • The Bespoke Ford — Modern Living
  • “The Better Man” — Fiction by Ray Russell
  • Slices of the Apple — Nostalgia by Rex Stewart
  • Red China, the U.S. and the U.N. — Opinion by Max Lerner
  • Sean Connery Strikes Again – Pictorial
  • The Day Arnold Palmer was Blackballed — Humor by Peter Andrews
  • Patrician Playmate — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Tish Howard
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes – Humor
  • “Don’t Laugh Unless It’s Funny” — Fiction by William Saroyan
  • In the Swim — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • Gyps That Pass in the Night — Article by J. Paul Getty
  • Ursula — Ursula Andress Pictorial
  • The Royal Ascot — Man at His Leisure by Leroy Neiman
  • The Generous Gift of Gabon — Ribald Classic
  • The Alfresco Bunch — Food and Drink by Thomas Mario
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: James Coburn – Richard Petty – David Gilmour
  • Two page Vargas Girl spread declares “How do you like my Dynamic Duo” with topless subject wearing Batman cape, mask, utility belt and other gear on the run
  • Little Annie Fanny — Satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

    • 1966-03 Playboy Magazine Contents for March 1966

    1966/03 — Vol. 13 No. 3. 176 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Interview: Bob Dylan
  • The Playboy Panel – Crisis in Law Enforcement — Discussion
  • “Octopussy” – Part 1 of 2 of a Novelette by Ian Fleming
  • The Contemporary Planesman — Modern Living
  • “O’Hara’s Love” — Fiction by Pietro Di Donato
  • Revelations — Pictorial
  • A New Set of Sex Movies – Satire by Auro Roselli
  • We’re Happening All Over, Baby! — Article by Nat Hentoff
  • Fine Form – Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Priscilla Wright
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes – Humor
  • Step Right Up! — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • “The Good Doctor” — Fiction by Allan Seager
  • Symbolic Sex — Humor by Don Addis
  • Depair – Part 4 of a Novel by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Trio Con Brio – Pictorial featuring Christiane Schmidtmer – Shirley Anne Field – Rossana Podesta
  • Goldilocks and the three Bears — Humor by James Ransom
  • The Purple Grapes of Queen Julishka — Ribald Classic by Csonka
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Nicol Williamson – John Williams – William Lear
  • Single page Vargas Girl “My agent says I can become a star if I let the right people handle me.”
  • Little Annie Fanny — Satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

    • 1966-04 Playboy Magazine Contents for April 1966

    1966/04 — Vol. 13 No. 4. 224 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Interview: George Lincoln Rockwell
  • “Chronicle of an Event” — Fiction by Ken W. Purdy
  • Playboy’s Spring and Summer Fashion Forecast — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • “Octopussy” – Part 2 of 2 of a Novelette by Ian Fleming
  • Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright — Sports by Jack Denton Scott
  • Malibu Beachnik – Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Sue Williams
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • A Playboy Pad: Palm Springs Oasis — Modern Living
  • The Goblet of Dreams — Article by Ira Cohen
  • “Marriage, Food, Money, Children, Ice Skating” — Fiction by Herbert Gold
  • The Playboy Cover Story — Pictorial Essay is an article covering the history, background and models of Playboy’s own covers, loaded with photos
  • The Double Deception of Janos the Jack – Ribald Classic
  • The History of Sex in Cinema – Part 8: Sex Stars of the Thirties — Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert
  • Depair – Part 5 of 5 of a Novel by Vladimir Nabokov
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Tom Wolfe – Michael Caine – Ramsey Lewis
  • Single page Vargas Girl “Sending a dozen roses was my boyfriend’s idea, but delivering them one at a time was the florist’s.”
  • The Playboy Art Gallery — Humor by Jim Beaman

    • 1966-05 Playboy Magazine Contents for May 1966

    1966/05 — Vol. 13 No. 5. 230 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Philosophy – Editorial by Hugh Hefner
  • Playboy Interview: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
  • “The Roach Powder in the Maple Walnut” – Fiction by Bernard Wolfe
  • Brava Costas! — Travel by Geoffrey Bocca
  • “The Master Copy” — Fiction by Frank Dobinson
  • Why Does My Art Go Boom? — Article by Len Deighton
  • The Case for American Wines — Drink by Thomas Mario
  • “The Eastern Sprints” — Fiction by Tom Mayer
  • Bunny From Britain — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Dolly Read

  • Playboy’s Party Jokes – Humor
  • Snap Decisions — Modern Living by Vincent T. Tajiri with photos featuring Woody Allen showing off cameras and gear
  • “The Hayloft” — Fiction by Pietro Di Donato
  • Captial Punishment — Article by Michael Disalle
  • Boss Tweed — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • How to Be a Faquir — Article by Daniel P. Mannix
  • Playmate of the Year — Allison Parks Pictorial
  • The Cunning of Khalbas the Cuckold — Ribald Classic
  • Playmate First Class: Jo Collins in Vietname – Pictorial Essay
  • Lord Love a Teevie Jeebie — Satire by Shel Silverstein
  • Little Annie Fanny — Sature by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder
  • Vargas Girl – Two page spread – “I must admit that some undercover assignments are more interesting than others”

    • 1966-08 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1966/08 — Vol. 13 No. 8. 180 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Interview: H.L. Hunt
  • “Hello, Charlie, Goodbye” — Fiction by Ken W. Purdy
  • The French Fonda — Jane Fonda Pictorial
  • “The Manuscript of Doctor Arness” — Fiction by Gahan Wilson
  • The Light Italian Hand — Food by Thomas Mario
  • On the Secret Service of His Majesty the Queen — Parody by Sol Weinstein
  • The Death of God — Opinion by The Reverend William Hamilton
  • Go Western, Young Man — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • Picture Playmate — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Susan Denberg
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • “My Father, His Father and Ben” — Fiction by Herbert Gold

  • The Discovery and Use of the Fake Ink Blot — Humor by Woody Allen

  • The Bunnies of Dixie — Pictorial Essay
  • The New Linen Look — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • Gentleman Julep — Drink by Thomas Mario
  • The Case of the Warbling Cuckold — Humor by Jean Shepherd
  • An Unusual Cure for a Pain in the Eye — Ribald Classic
  • The History of Sex in Cinema — Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert — Part 9: The Forties – War and Peace in Hollywood
  • Symbolic Sex — Humor by Don Addis

    • 1966-11 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1966/11 — Vol. 13 No. 11. 254 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Interview: Norman Thomas
  • “The Ancient Company” — Fiction by Herbert Gold
  • “A Most Miraculous Organ” — Fiction by Ray Russell
  • The Ninth Upland Game Bird — Sports by Vance Bourjaily
  • Daphne Bigelow and the Tin-Foil Noose — Humor by Jean Shepherd
  • How I Would Start Again Today — Article by J. Paul Getty
  • The Hallucinogenic Hotel Room — Pictorial
  • “The Swimmers” — Fiction by William Saroyan
  • Building a Business Wardrobe — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • The Sexual Freedom League — Article by Jack Lind
  • Member of the Wedding — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Lisa Baker
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • Skiing Europe — Sports
  • The Technical Editor Moves Up — Satire by Jacob Hay
  • The Supreme Court — Article by Nat Hentoff
  • No Cover, No Minimum — Pictorial
  • The Merry Nights of Mistinguette — Ribald Classic by Gabriel Chappuys
  • Christmas Customs — Gifts
  • The History of Sex in Cinema — Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert — Part 12: The Fifties – Hollywood Grows Up
  • The Honeymoon — Humor by John Dempsey

    • 1966-12 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1966/12 — Vol. 13 No. 12. 354 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Interview: Sammy Davis Jr.
  • “An Expensive Place to Die” — Fiction by Len Deighton
  • Dialog in Black & White — Discussion with James Baldwin and Budd Schulberg
  • “Accidentally Good” — Fiction by Robert Ruark
  • “So Pretty and So Green” — Fiction by Mackinlay Kantor
  • Playboy’s Christmas Cards — Verse by Judith Wax
  • My Favorite Sleuths — Article by Kingsley Amis
  • London — Playboy on the Town
  • The IBM and I — Article by Brooks Atkinson
  • “The Truth About Orlik” — Fiction by Gerald Kersh
  • Women as Angels — Article by Pearl Buck
  • The Intimate Notebook — Belles-Lettres by Gustave Flaubert
  • God Bless the Gentile — Article by Harry Golden
  • Growing Up Glamorous — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Sue Bernard
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • “The Only Game in Town” — Fiction by Garson Kanin
  • The Incredible Shrinking Ferrari — Article by Stirling Moss
  • Is My Culture Showing? — Opinion by Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Santas for All — Satire
  • The 12-to-12 Party — Food and Drink by Thomas Mario
  • The Big Spenders — Article by Lucius Beebe
  • The Seven Coffins — Memoir by John Gunther
  • Silverstein’s Songbook — Humor by Shel Silverstein
  • The Girls of Tahiti — Pictorial Essay
  • The Scamp He Would a Scribbler Be — Ribald Classic by Poggio Fiorentino

    • Fantastic Trio:

  • “Playback” — Fiction by Arthur C. Clarke
  • “Lovemaking” — Fiction by Frederik Pohl
  • “Cephalotron” — Fiction by Thomas M. Disch
  • Our Man at the Film Festivals — Article by Kenneth Tynan
  • Playboy’s Christmas Gift Guide — Gifts
  • The History of Sex in Cinema — Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert — Part 13: The Fifties – Sex Goes Internationa
  • Symbolic Sex — Humor by Don Addis
  • Little Annie Fanny — Satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

    • 1967-06 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1967/06 — Vol. 14 No. 6. 222 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Panel: Religion and the New Morality — discussion
  • The Wreck of the Ship John B. — Fiction by Frank Robinson
  • 007’s Oriental Eyefuls — Pictorial Essay — By Roald Dahl
  • It’s Not Far, But I Don’t Know the Way — Fiction by Hoke Norris
  • The Eyes Have It — Accouterments
  • Business Is Business — Article by J. Paul Getty
  • Climate of Violence — Opinion by Max Lerner
  • Horse Sense — Article by Ernest Havemann
  • Pin Money — Fiction by James Cross
  • Pal Joey — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Joey Gibson
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • A Snob’s Guide to Magazines — Humor by Dan Greenburg and James Ransom
  • Playboy’s Gifts for Dads and Grads — gifts
  • The History of Sex in Cinema — Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert
  • Peacock Dreams — Fiction by Herbert Gold
  • How the Sultan Made Peace in His Harem — ribald classic
  • Spit Roasting — food by Thomas Mario
  • Silverstein in London — humor by Shel Silverstein

    • 1967-12 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1967/12 — Vol. 14 No. 12. 320 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — Travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Interview: Johnny Carson
  • “The Mannichon Solution” — Fiction by Irwin Shaw
  • Bodies Politic – Pictorial by Eugenio Hirsch

  • “A Good Cigar Is a Smoke” — Fiction by P.G. Wodehouse
  • Far-Flung Fling — Food and Drink by Thomas Mario

  • Art Nouveau Erotica — Pictorial
  • Resolving Our Vietnam Problem — Opinion by John Kenneth Galbraith

  • Playboy’s Christmas Cards — Verse by Judith Wax
  • The UFO Gap — Article by J. Allen Hynek

    • Pardon Me, Sir, But Is My Eye Hurting Your Elbow — Three Plays:

  • “Plums and Prunes” by Terry Southern

  • “An Incident in the Park” by Arthur Kopit
  • “Juan Feldman” by Jack Richardson
  • Love and Hate in Rent-A-Car Land — Humor by Harold Greenwald
  • Developing Playmate — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Lynn Winchell
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes
  • The Criminal Mentality — Article by John Bartlow Martin
  • The Wicked Dreams of Elke Sommer – Pictorial
  • Reincarnation — Article by Robert Graves
  • Return of the Smiling Wimpy Doll — Humor by Jean Shepherd
  • “The Lecture” — Fiction by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Bopper Brigade — Satire by Jack Newfield and Howard Smith

  • The Attack on Privacy — Article by Justice William O. Douglas
  • Bunnies of Hollywood — Pictorial Essay

  • Why Napoleon Erected the Obelisk — Ribald Classic

  • Symbolic Sex — Humor by Don Addis
  • “Dance With a Stranger” — Fiction by Jacob Brackman
  • Stellar Attractions — Gifts
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Charles Lloyd, John Usher Monro, Walter Matthau
  • Little Annie Fanny — Satire by Harvey Kirtzman and Will Elder

    • 1968-01 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1968/01 — Vol. 15 No. 1. 272 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Interview: Norman Mailer
  • “The Yellow Room” — Fiction by John Cheever
  • God and the HIppies — Article by Harvey Cox

  • “Welcome to the Monkey House” — Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • Midnight Explosion & Breakfast in Bed — Food and Drink by Thomas Mario
  • Death Warmed Over — Opinion by Ray Bradbury
  • Encore for Stella — Pictorial featuring Stella Stevens

  • “A Latin from Killarney” – Fiction by Budd Schulberg
  • Remember the Yavuz! – Humor by Marvin Kitman
  • When Earthman and Alien Meet — Article by Arthur C. Clarke

  • That Was the Year That Was — Humor by Judith Wax
  • Informally Formal — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • Two New Poems — Verse by Evgeny Evtushenko
  • Word Play — Satire by Robert Carola

  • Moving Up in the World — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Connie Kreski
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes
  • “The Old System” — Fiction by Saul Bellow
  • Paper Plimpton — Humor by Art Buchwald
  • The Vargas Girl — From the Thirties to the Present — Nostalgia
  • Rosati — Man at His Leisure by Leroy Neiman
  • The Mystique of the Racing Driver – Sports by Stirling Moss
  • Saying No to the Yes Mentality — Article by J. Paul Getty
  • Out on a Limerick — Humor by Ogden Nash
  • The War of the Tabloids – Article by Jim Bishop
  • The Case for Lobbies – Article by US Senator Stephen M. Young
  • City of the Future – Article by R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Playboy’s Playmate Review — Pictorial
  • The New Girl – Opinion by John Clellon Holmes
  • The Bloody Bey’s Silver Cup – Ribald Classic by Alexander Dumas
  • The Eleventh Hour Santa – Gifts
  • Silverstein in Hollywood – Humor by Shel Silverstein
  • Little Annie Fanny — Satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

    • 1968-05 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1968/05 — Vol. 15 No. 5. 226 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Interview: Masters and Johnson
  • The Annex — Fiction by John D. MacDonald
  • There Once Was an Indian Maid — Julie Newmar Pictorial
  • Henne Fire — Fiction by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Indy — The Golden Brickyard — Sports by Ken W. Purdy
  • Ulysses at Cannes — Article by William Wiser
  • Casual Convertibles — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • There’s One Born Every Second — Nostalgia by Daniel Mannix
  • Never Press the Lapels — Fiction by Gerald Cleaver
  • Here Comes Miss Jordan — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Elizabeth Jordan
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • The Dead Astronaut — Fiction by J.G. Ballard
  • Playboy’s Guide to a Continental Holiday — Travel by Len Deighton
  • The Snooping Machine — Article by Alan Westin
  • Playmate of the Year — Angela Dorian Pictorial
  • Vargas Girl — “I don’t mind of a man loves me and leaves me–as long as he leaves me enough”
  • The Virgin of Venice — Ribald Classic
  • The Art of Composing a Meal — Food and Drink by Thomas Mario
  • Exotica — Satire by Jules Feiffer
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: John Conyers, Jr., The 5th Dimension, and Tom Stoppard

    • 1968-07 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1968/07 — Vol. 15 No. 7. 202 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Interview: Paul Newman
  • Playing Fields — Fiction by John Cheever
  • Cover Girl Uncovered — Kecia Pictorial
  • Variety Quiz by Sheldon Wax
  • The Fully Automated Love Life of Henry Keanridge — Fiction by Stan Dryer
  • Time for Sport — Accouterments
  • My Country, Far Right or Wrong — Humor by Ralph Schoenstein
  • A Pretty Girl — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Melodye Prentiss
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • Ollie Hopnoodle’s Haven of Bliss — Humor by Jean Shepherd
  • Star Billing for a Bit Player — Food by Thomas Mario
  • A New Order of Priorities — Opinion by U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright
  • Bright on White — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • Must the Tedium Be the Message? — Article by Newton Minow
  • Silverstein Among the Hippies — Humor by Shel Silverstein
  • Masks — Fiction by Damon Knight
  • It Happens in Monterey — Travel by Len Deighton
  • Vargas Girl — “Doesn’t this look like a nice spot for a picnic, Mr. Morton?”
  • The Last Strategem — Ribald Classic
  • The History of Sex in Cinema — Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert

    • 1969-04 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1969/04 — Vol. 16 No. 4. 266 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Interview: Allen Ginsberg
  • Ada — Fiction by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Volatile Vanessa — Vanessa Redgrave Pictorial
  • Serendipitous Ceylon — Travel

    • The Toys and Games of War and Peace — Articles:

  • Playing for Keeps by Jules Siegel
  • Playing for Fun by Robert Russel
  • Playing for the Upper Hand by Philip Meyer
  • The Light Touch — Modern Living
  • I Cut Out Her Heart and Stomped on It! — Article by Reginald Potterton — freakies and weirdos, violence and kinky erotica are the lurid staples of the national tabloids
  • The Language of Legs — Pictorial
  • 2-page Vargas Girl illustration “Mr. Wilson, I think you’ve discovered a delightful way to bridge the generation gap.”
  • Master of the Ball Hawks — Fiction by Patrick McGivern
  • Comely Camper — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Lorna Hopper
  • Playboy’s Spring & Summer Fashion Forecast — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • The Swingers — Article by Richard Warren Lewis
  • The Grandstand Passion Play — Humor by Jean Shepherd
  • Bebe Bares All — Brigitte Bardot Pictorial
  • The Fixer — Ribald Classic
  • Prey — Fiction by Richard Matheson
  • Chili Weather — Food by Thomas Mario
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: David Levine, Paul Young, and Tom O’Horgan
  • Little Annie Fanny — satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

    • 1969-06 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1969/06 — Vol. 16 No. 6. 266 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Interview: Gore Vidal
  • Downwind from Gettysburg — Fiction by Ray Bradbury
  • The Paramilitary Right — Article by Eric Norden
  • De Sade — Pictorial
  • Two-page Vargas Girl — “There’s nothing wrong with premarital sex, as long as it doesn’t hold up the cermeony.”
  • The Grand Hotels — Article by Robert Morley
  • High Water Marks — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • The American Novel Made Us — Article by Seymour Krim
  • Le Mans — Man at His Leisure by Leroy Neiman
  • I Do Not Like Thee, Dr. Feldman — Fiction by Henry Slesar
  • Hare Apparent — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Helena Antonaccio
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • Paella Y Sangria — Food and Drink by Thomas Mario
  • The Risk Takers — Article by Robert Daley
  • Gemini — Fiction by Ray Russell
  • Playboy’s Gifts for Dads and Grads — Gifts
  • Playboy’s Guide to Mutual Funds — Article by Michael Laurence
  • A Life in the Day Of — Fiction by Frank M. Robinson
  • Word Play — Satire by Robert Carola
  • Playmate of the Year — Connie Kreski Pictorial
  • Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories — Humor by Jean Shepherd
  • The Lady in Green Slippers — Ribald Classic by Restif de la Bretonne
  • Breezy Does It — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • Hostileman — Satire by Jules Feiffer
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Tom Jones, Arthur Ashe, and Buck Henry

    • 1965-08 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1965/08 — Vol. 12 No. 8. 168 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Interview: Robert Shelton
  • “The Most Beautiful Race in the World” — Fiction by Paul Darcy Boles
  • A Playboy Pad: Manhattan Tower — Modern Living
  • “Melodramine” — Fiction by Henry Slesar
  • Playmate of the Year — Pictorial featuring Jo Collins
  • Milestones of Success — Article by J. Paul Getty
  • Bright With White — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • “Barbara” — Fiction by Robert Ruark
  • Comely Colleague — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Lannie Balcom
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • Where There’s Smoke There’s Ire — Article by Poyntz Tyler
  • Fore! — Sports
  • What’s Nude, Pussycat? — Humor by Woody Allen
  • “Friendship” — Fiction by Ken W. Purdy
  • The Giraglia Yacht Race — Man at His Leisure by Leroy Neiman
  • The Sheet of Love — Ribald Classic by Abdullah Ben Almocaffa
  • The History of Sex in Cinema — Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert — Part 4: The Twenties — Europe’s Decade of Decadence and Delirium
  • Silverstein on Fire Island — Humor by Shel Silverstein
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Carroll Shelby – Edward Brooke – Thomas Schippers
  • Pickup — Satire by Jules Feiffer

    • 1969-07 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1969/07 — Vol. 16 No. 7. 222 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Interview: Rod Steiger
  • Beginnings — Fiction by Evan Hunter
  • Letting Go — Article by Robert Kaiser
  • Putting the Dash in Haberdashery — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • Birds of America — Pictorial
  • Wenceslas and the Russian Bear — Article by Heinrich Boll
  • The Thinking Lovers — Humor by John Dempsey
  • The Myth of a Balanced Budget — Article by J. Paul Getty
  • The Outs and Ins of Sunmanship — Accouterments
  • Executive Stiletto — Article by Lawrence Linderman
  • Somebody Owes Me Money — Fiction by Donald E. Westlake
  • Nancy With the Smiling Face — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Nancy McNeil
  • Playboys Party Jokes — Humor
  • Slaves or Masters? — Article by David Rorvik
  • Two-Page Vargas Girl — “No, darling, I don’t want to overexpose myself on the first day.”
  • Sand Blast! — Modern Living
  • A Breath of Lucifer — Fiction by R.K. Narayan
  • The Three Sisters of Knarr — Humor by Roger Price
  • To the Manner Born — Tina Aumont Pictorial

  • The Public Be Damned — Article by Justice William O. Douglas
  • The Worshipful Widow — Ribald Classic
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Biff Rose, Gilbert E. Kaplan, and Hal Prince
  • Little Annie Fanny — Satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

    • 1965-09 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1965/09 — Vol. 12 No. 9. 266 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • Playboy Interview: Peter O’Toole
  • “Chariot of Fire” — Fiction by Ray Russell
  • The Moreau Mystique — Pictorial featuring Jeanne Moreau
  • “An Unevenness of Blessings” — Fiction by Herbert Gold
  • Chairmen of the Boards — Games
  • Call Them Madem — Article by Irving Wallace
  • The Lordly Chesterfield — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • “The Ultimate Brunette” — Fiction by Algis Budrys
  • Horsing Them in With Hemingway — Memoir by Arnold Gingrich
  • Playboy’s Pigskin Review — Sports by Anson Mount
  • Reining Playmate — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Patti Reynolds
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • The Sex Institute — Article by Ernest Havemann
  • Back to Campus — Attie by Robert L. Green
  • “The Muses of Ruin” — Fiction by William Pearson
  • Through a Wineglass Hazily — Nostalgia by Edward B. Marks
  • Saturday Night With Genghis Khan — Pictorial
  • “Afternoon in Andalusia” — Fiction by Robert Ruark
  • Bye-Bye Stick Shift — Article by Ken W. Purdy
  • The Quick-Witted Miller — Ribald Classic by Marguerite of Navarre
  • Gahan Wilson’s Mother Goose — Humor by Gahan Wilson
  • The History of Sex in Cinema — Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert — Part 5: Sex Stars of the Twenties
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Robert Shaw – Hallock Hoffman – Don Adams
  • What’s New, Teevee Jeebies? — Satire by Shel Silverstein
  • Ich! — Satire by Jules Feiffer

    • 1969-08 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1969/08 — Vol. 16 No. 8. 222 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Interview: Ramsey Clark
  • Quick Hop — fiction by Brock Brower
  • The Global Crunch – article by U.S. Senator Frank Church
  • Sweet Paula — pictorial features Paula Kelly
  • Avant-Garb — attire by Robert L. Green
  • Gold — article b Franz Pick
  • The Fire Fighters — fiction by Ernest Taves
  • Grand Guignol on the Grand Canal — article by Irwin Shaw
  • Coolin It by the Numbers — drink by Thomas Mario
  • The Company Picnic — humor by Phil Interlandi
  • Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? — fiction by Robert Sheckley
  • Turned On — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Debbie Hooper
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — humor
  • Somebody Owes Me Money — fiction by Donald E. Westlake
  • Living Theater – The Becks and their Shock Troupe — article by John Kobler
  • Timely Wardrobe — accouterments by Robert L. Green
  • Yugoslavia — Man at His Leisure by Leroy Neiman
  • Custer Died for Your Sins — article by Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • The Bunnies of Detroit — pictorial essay
  • St. Thomas and the Dragon — personality by Richard Warren Lewis
  • Fair Share — ribald classic

    • 1965-10 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1965/10 — Vol. 12 No. 10. 230 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray
  • The Great Comic-Book Heroes — Nostalgia — 9-page article by Jules Feiffer filled with comic reproductions, article is subtitled Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel and all the rest of that marvelous crew; whence they came, who created them, and why they occupied a special place apart in the fantasies of our youth
  • City of Light ’65 — Fiction by Herbert Gold
  • France’s Deneuve Wave — Catherine Deneuve pictorial
  • The Fireplace — Fiction by Pietro Di Donato
  • The Unhurried View of Ralph Ginzburg — Article by Dan Wakefield
  • Duplex Digs — Playboy Pad
  • Limmericks
  • The Nail and the Oracle — Fiction by Theodore Stugeon
  • The Cherished Cheroot — Modern Living, article subtitled a redolent wrap-up of the manly joys of a leaf well rolled, plus a guide on what to do till Castro goes away
  • The Official Sex Manual — Satire by Gerald Sussman
  • The Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot — Nostalgia by Jean Shepherd
  • Natural Wonder — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Alison Parks
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes
  • Playboy’s Fall & Winter Fashion Forecast — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • The 1966 Playboy Jazz Poll
  • The Bunnies of Miami — Pictorial Essay
  • Vargas Girl — “Yes, madam, I’m sure he’s in the bath.”
  • Lotus Blossoms — Ribald Classic
  • Loxfinger — Parody by Sol Weinstein
  • Oysters “R” In Season — food by Thomas Mario
  • Symbolic Sex — Humor by Don Addis
  • On the Scene — Personalities features brief biographies with black & white photos of three personalities of the time over two pages, this issue: Charles Aznavour, Richard Lester, and Gerald Tsai
  • The Playboy Art Gallery — Humor by Jim Beaman
  • Little Annie Fanny — satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

    • 1969-12 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1969/12 — Vol. 16 No. 12. 352 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Interview: Joe Namath
  • The Flashlight — fiction by Eldridge Cleaver
  • Genius — article by Robert Graves
  • Homage to Toulouse-Lautrec — pictorial credited to Ronald Searle
  • Two Paths to the Top — article by J. Paul Getty
  • The Girls of Hair — pictorial
  • Crook’s Tour — fiction by Graham Greene
  • Hunger in America — article by U.S. Senator Jacob Javits
  • Playboy’s Christmas Cards — Verse by Judith Wax
  • Cross the Border, Close the Gap — Opinion by Leslie A. Fiedler
  • The Min-Gala — food by Thomas Mario
  • Soft-Core Pornography Made Easy — humor
  • Cordle to Onion to Carror — fiction by Robert Sheckley
  • Santa Claus Confidential — humor by William Iversen
  • Carnival in Rio — travel
  • Snow White? — humor by Woody Allen
  • Revolutionary Discovery — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Gloria Root
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — humor
  • Love, Dad — fiction by Joseph Heller
  • A New Approach to Christmas Giving — gifts
  • The Great Crooners — nostalgia by Tiny Tim
  • Choice Cartoons from Yuletides Past — humor
  • Sugar and Clay — article by Sugar Ray Robinson
  • Sex Stars of 1969 — article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert
  • Episode and Postscript — memoir by Timothy Leary with mushroom bordered pop-up featuring illustrated image of Leary
  • Murder in the Kitchen — article by Alan Watts
  • Epigrams from the Greek Anthology — ribald classic
  • The Harold Robbins Co. — article/pictorial by John Skow
  • The Pervert — satire by Jules Feiffer
  • On the Scene — personalities
  • Little Annie Fanny — satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder

    • 1965-11 Playboy Magazine Contents

    1965/11 — Vol. 12 No. 11. 226 pages.

    Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Philosophy — Editorial by Hugh M. Hefner
  • Playboy Interview: Sean Connery
  • “Etta At Night” — Fiction by Frederic Morton
  • The Nude Look — Pictorial
  • The Silence of Oswald — Article by John Clellon Holmes
  • Name Your Poison — Humor by Ray Russell
  • After the Fall — Attire/Gear by Robert L. Green
  • “The Goblin of Curtery Sink” — Fiction by T.K. Brown III
  • Creative Collecting — Article by J. Paul Getty
  • Pat Pending — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Pat Russo
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes — Humor
  • “Deathwatch” — Fiction by Norman Spinrad
  • The Playboy Cars — 1966 — Modern Living by Ken W. Purdy
  • “An Angel of Mercy” — Fiction by David Ely
  • James Bond ‘s Girls — Pictorial Essay by Richard Maibaum
  • A Scamp and His Bagpipes Bold — Ribald Classic by Masuccio
  • Playboy’s Preview of Presents Perfect — Gifts
  • Word Play — Satire by Robert Carola
  • The History of Sex in Cinema — Article by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert — Part 6: The Thirties — Censorship and the Depression
  • Barbed Wires — Humor by Joyce Denebrink