Playmate of the Month
Lynn Turner photographed by Peter Gowland.

Features
"Advice About Women" by Erskine Caldwell.

"Will She or Won't She?" by Jules Archer.

"Last Will and Testament" by Rex Fabian.

"Dearth of a Salesman" by Addison North.

"A Moment of Genius" by Eugene Pawley.

"I Like Blondes" by Robert Bloch.

"Love, The Healer" by Herbert Gold.

"Cole's Forecast for 1956" cartoons by Jack Cole.

The First Two Dozen Playmates

Playmate of the Month
Marguerite Empey photographed by Ken Paker.

Personality
"Will Success Spoil Jayne Mansfield?" by Earl Wilson, photos by Hal Adams.

Features
"The Crack of Doom" by Don Marquis.

"Boxing 1956" by De Pazdur.

"Mary" by John Collier.

Playmate of the Month
Marian Stafford (cover) photographed by Ruth Sondak.

Features
"Couching at the Door" by D.K. Broster.

"The First Night of Lent" by Ray Bradbury.

"The Great Guessing Game" by Jules Archer.

"The Psychodynamist" by Herbert Gold.

"I Am Committing Suicide" by Delmas W. Abbott.

Playmate of the Month
Rusty Fisher photographed by Sam Wu.

Features
"The Cruise of the Aphrodite" by H.E. Heckelmann.

"The Sport of Sports Car Racing" by Jack Olsen.

"No More Gifts" by Willard Marsh.

"Taste" by Roald Dahl.

Playmate of the Month
Marion Scott.

Personality
"To Victor (Borge) Belongs the Spoils" by Albert C. Lasher.

Features
"The Splendid Source" by Richard Matheson.

"How Now, Brown Cow?" by James F. Peirce.

"The Shooting of Judge Price" by Erskine Caldwell.

"The Monster Show" by Charles Beaumont.

"The Lynx With the Lusty Larnyx (Meg Myles' Voice is Hardly Half of It)" photographed by Russ Meyer.

Model
Dolores Taylor (cover) photographed by Arthur-James.

Playmate of the Month
Gloria Walker photographed by Herman Leonard.

Features
"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury.

"Chess"

Playmate of the Month
Alice Denham photographed by Mike Shea.

Features
"The Deal" by Alice Denham.

"The Truckdriver" by Alberto Moravia.

"Some Guys Get It" by Harlan Draper.

"Nellthu" by Anthony Boucher.

"The Newport Jazz Festival"

Playmate of the Month
Jonnie Nicely photographed by Hal Adams.

Features
"You Can't Have Them All" by Charles Beaumont.

"The Death of Painting" by Evelyn Waugh.

"Walk to the Station" by Stanley Cooperman.

"Ad Lib Exit" by Willard Marsh.

"The Ekberg Bronze (A Cuban Sculptor Captures Anita's Classic beauty in Living Metal)" by Robert Seaver.
(Photos of sulptor, Sepy Dobronyi, by Mickey Pallas).

Playmate of the Month
Elsa Sorensen photographed by Peter Gowland.

Personality
Ernest Hemingway by Jed Kiley.

Features
"Love, Incorporated" by Robert Sheckley.

"The Doll" by Hugh G. Foster.

"Boxing's Child of Destiny Floyd Patterson.

"Get Out of My Life" by John Wallace.

College Issue

Playmate of the Month
Janet Pilgrim photographed by Mike Shea.

Features
"The Right Kind of Pride" by Herbert Gold.

"Hospitality" by Lesley Conger.

"Hemighway (A Title Bout in Ten Rounds)" (round 3) by Jed Kiley.

"A Pound of Flesh" by Anson Mount.

"For Export Only (Stateside Cinema is Spice, Too, But Not for Home Consumption)".

Playmate of the Month
Betty Blue photographed by Hal Adams.

Features
"A Flourish of Strumpets" by Richard Matheson.

"The Abdicating Male" by Philip Wylie.

"The Lock on the Barroom Door" by Jonathan Rhoades.

"The Lover of the Coral Glades" by Adrian Conan Doyle.

"The Flip Side" by Charles Einstein.

"Hemingway (A Title Bout in Ten Rounds) (round 4) by Jed Kiley.

Third Anniversary Issue

Playmate of the Month
Lisa Winters (cover) photographed by Bunny Yeager.

Features
"The Dark Music" by Charles Beaumont.

"Confessions of an American Button Man" by Shel Silverstein.

"Broadway"

"Hemingway (A Title Bout in Ten Rounds) (round 6) by Jed Kiley.