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The Planeteer [v1 #3, January 1936] ed. Jim Blish (Blish-Grim Enterprises, 16pp, 7″ x 8½″, cover by W. Miller) []
Mimeographed with hectographed illustrations.
Details supplied by Alistair Durie.

3 · Yelps from the Editor’s End · The Editor · ed

4 · Pursuit Into Nowhere · Jim Blish · ss

13 · The Planeteer’s Televisor: 2. The Disintegrator · [uncredited] · ar

14 · The Reader Spanks · Readers · lc

15 · Coming Next Month · [uncredited] · ms

The Planeteer [v1 #4, February 1936] ed. Jim Blish (10¢, 16pp, 7″ x 8½″) []
Mimeographed with hectographed illustrations.
Details supplied by Alistair Durie.

3 · Yelps from the Editor’s End · The Editor · ed

4 · Threat from Copernicus · Jim Blish · ss

12 · The Planeteer’s Televisor: Heavy Artillary: The Moon-Ray · [uncredited] · ar

12 · The Reader Spanks · Readers · lc

13 · First Prize Contest · [uncredited] · cn

14 · Coming Next Month · [uncredited] · ms

The Planeteer [v1 #5, March 1936] ed. Jim Blish (10¢, 12pp, 7″ x 8½″) []
Details supplied by Alistair Durie.

1 · Yelps from the Editor’s End · The Editor · ed

2 · Trail of the Comet · James Blish · ss

9 · Coming Next Month · [uncredited] · ms

10 · Emptiness · Burton DuMont · vi

12 · The Reader Spanks · Readers · lc

The Planeteer [v1 #6, April 1936] ed. Jim Blish (10¢, 14pp, 8½″ x 11″, cover by W. H. Miller) []
Details supplied by Alistair Durie.

3 · Yelps from the Editor’s End · The Editor · ed

4 · Bat-shadow Shroud · Jim Blish · ss

8 · Esperantist’s Science-fiction Bulletin · [uncredited] · ar

9 · Next Month’s Planeteer Tale · [uncredited] · ar

10 · Coal Thief · Laurence Manning · vi

12 · The Reader Spanks · Readers · lc

The Planeteer [v2 #1, September 1936 (unpublished)] ed. James Blish (cover by Morris Dollens, Jnr.) []
Details taken from eBay listing. Given as “Tesseract combined with The Planeteer” in the Table of Contents. According to Sam Moskowitz, Blish never did mail out the unfinished number of The Planeteer and Moskowitz “on a visit to Blish’s home in 1937, salvaged most of the remaining pages and assembled some two dozen copies, which he sold at ten cents apiece.”

· The Wood · H. P. Lovecraft · pm The Tryout January 1927, as by L. Theobald, Jun.

· Death’s Crystal Towers · James Blish · uw

· Napoleon of Space · J. Harvey Haggard · ss

· The Thousandth Raid · William S. Sykora · ss Fantascience Digest March/April 1938

The Planeteer [v2 #1, March 1939] ed. James V. Taurasi (10¢, 26pp+, 8½″ x 11″ mimeographed, cover by James V. Taurasi) []
Details supplied by Alistair Durie.

2 · Editorial · The Editor · ed

4 · It Happened in Space · James V. Taurasi · ss

9 · The Dreamer · Gertrude Kuslan · vi

10 · He of the Xandy · Walter E. Marconette · ss

14 · Crack-up “Rocky” · John Giunta · ss

17 · The Coming of Ornoo · Dale Hart · ss

Planets of Peril (about)

Planets of Peril [#1, (July) 2020] ed. John B. Ford & Steve Lines (Rainfall Books, £5.50, 40pp, A5, cover by Steve Lines) []
Details taken from magazine website.

· A Prince of Mars · Lin Carter & Robert M. Price · ss

· Sabre · D. J. Tyrer · ss

Playboy (about)
Fiction only listed for most issues.

Playboy [v1 #1, December 1953] (quarto) []

22 · Introducing Sherlock Holmes [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss (r)

34 · A Horseman in the Sky · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 14 1889

Playboy [v1 #2, January 1954] (quarto) []

22 · A Scandal in Bohemia [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine July 1891

32 · Bird of Prey · John Collier · ss Presenting Moonshine by John Collier, Viking, 1941

Playboy [v1 #3, February 1954] (quarto) []

6 · New Cabin · Erskine Caldwell · ss College Humor July 1936

20 · The Adventure of the Copper Beeches [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine June 1892

Playboy [v1 #4, March 1954] (quarto) []

6 · Fahrenheit 451 [Part 1 of 3] · Ray Bradbury · n. Ballantine, 1953

12 · Medicine Man · Erskine Caldwell · ss We Are the Living by Erskine Caldwell, The Viking Press, 1933

Playboy [v1 #5, April 1954] (quarto) []

23 · Fahrenheit 451 [Part 2 of 3] · Ray Bradbury · n. Ballantine, 1953

Playboy [v1 #6, May 1954] (quarto) []

19 · Fahrenheit 451 [Part 3 of 3] · Ray Bradbury · n. Ballantine, 1953

Playboy [v1 #7, June 1954] (quarto) []

6 · A Woman of Fifty · William Somerset Maugham · ss Good Housekeeping May 1946

Playboy [v1 #8, July 1954] (quarto) []

21 · The Voice in the Night · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Blue Book Magazine November 1907

Playboy [v1 #9, August 1954] (quarto) []

19 · The Flying Machine · Ray Bradbury · ss The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1953

Playboy [v1 #10, September 1954] (quarto) []

6 · Black Country · Charles Beaumont · nv

22 · Roll Out the Rolov! · Harry C. Crosby · ss Imagination November 1953

Playboy [v1 #11, October 1954] (quarto) []

6 · Appearance and Reality · William Somerset Maugham · ss Cosmopolitan November 1934

29 · Old West · Jack F. West · ss

Playboy [v1 #12, November 1954] (quarto) []

7 · The Persistant Nude · Ernest Leogrande · ss

30 · August Afternoon · Erskine Caldwell · ss Esquire Autumn 1933

Playboy [v2 #1, December 1954] (quarto) []

7 · I’m Yours · Charles Schafhauser · ss

Playboy [v2 #2, January 1955] (quarto) []

6 · The Concrete Mixer · Ray Bradbury · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories April 1949

10 · Carnival · Erskine Caldwell · ss Mid-Week Pictorial October 24 1936

13 · The Ears of Johnny Bear · John Steinbeck · ss Esquire September 1937

Playboy [v2 #3, February 1955] (quarto) []

6 · A Change of Air · Ivan Gold · nv New World Writing #4, Mentor Books, 1953

17 · The Most Horrible Story in the World · John W. Jakes · ss Imagination January 1952, as “The Most Horrible Story”

Playboy [v2 #4, April 1955] (quarto) []

6 · The Hunger · Charles Beaumont · ss

36 · A Tithe for Charity [Ukridge] · P. G. Wodehouse · ss

Playboy [v2 #5, May 1955] (quarto) []

6 · The Eighty-Yard Run · Irwin Shaw · ss Esquire January 1941

23 · Naked Lady · Mindret Lord · ss Weird Tales September 1934

· The Murder of Conan Doyle · Ray Russell · ss

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

6 · In the Cards · John Collier · ss Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier, 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 December 1934, as “The Crooked Coronet”

16 · Uncle Fred Flits By [Uncle Fred; Pongo Twistleton] · P. G. Wodehouse · nv Redbook Magazine July 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 · vi Harper’s Bazar September 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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

· A Classic Affair · Charles Beaumont · ss

15 · The Next in Line · Ray Bradbury · nv Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury, Arkham House, 1947

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

10 · Advice About Women · Erskine Caldwell · ss

13 · Nunc Dimittis · Roald Dahl · nv Collier’s September 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 September 6 1930

29 · Mary · John Collier · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2725, July 1939

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

12 · Couching at the Door · D. K. Broster · nv The Cornhill Magazine December 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 December 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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

21 · The Darendinger Build-Up · William F. Nolan · ss

30 · A Sound of Thunder · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s June 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 August 1955

75 · A Liberal Darling · Anton Chekhov · ss

75 · Concerning the Drama · Anton Chekhov · ss

Playboy [v3 #8, August 1956] (quarto) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

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) []
Details taken from eBay listing.

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

· Bird · Richard Gehman & Robert George Reiner · ar [Ref. Charlie Parker]

· The Cuckold and the Cakes · [uncredited] · ss

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