Features Covergirl 12 Playmates (Nude) Playmate of the Month is June Blair photographed by Hal Adams "Elect Me Dictator" by Fred Astaire "The Mask and the Maiden" by John Collier "In a Season of Calm Weather" by Ray Bradbury "The Girls of Shepherd Market" by Sam Boal
Features Covergirl Jayne Mansfield (Not Nude) photographed by William Read Woodfield Playmate of the Month is Sally Todd photographed by David Sutton "A Second Father" by Budd Schulberg "The Traveling Salesman" by Robert Bloch "The 44-Year-Old Boy Disc Jockey" by Herbert Gold "Love in the Dark" by Pamela Moore
Features Covergirl & Playmate of the Month Sandra Edwards (Nude & Centerfold) photographed by Peter Gowland "Boxing 1957" by John Lardner "Hemingway (A Title Bout in Ten Rounds) (round 7) by Jed Kiley "Triplicate Twisteroo" by Fredric Brown "The Decent Thing To Do" by Dion Henderson
Features The Sergeant and the Slave Girl by T.K. Brown III All Throught the Night by Nelson Algren Victory Parade by Henry Slesar Exurbanites at Play by A.C. Spectorsky
Features Playmate of the Month is Dawn Richard photographed by David Sutton and Edward DeLong "It's Like This With TV" by John Crosby "Little Land of the Big Wheel" by John Sack "Tiger Hunt in Cooch Behar" by Prakash C. Jain "Return to Tokyo" cartoons by Shel Silverstein
Features Covergirl Playboy Rabbit Cuff Links (Not Nude) Playmate of the Month is Carrie Radison photographed by Desmond Russell "The Fly" by George Langelaan "Contour Contact" by Harrison Case "The Double Cross-Up" by T.K. Brown III Lisa Winters (Most Popular Playmate of 1956)
Features Covergirl Lisa (Nude) photographed by David Sutton Playmate of the Month is Jean Jani photographed by Peter Gowland "Mistress of Porcosito" by Gerald Kersh "A Very Human Story" by Harvey Swados "The Champion of Outer Mongolia" by Archie Oldham "Silverstein in Scandinavia" cartoons by Shel Silverstein
Features Playmate of the Month is Delores Denlon photographed by Peter Gowland "Incident Off Land's End" by Jacob Hay "Do Nice Artistic Girls?" by Herbert Gold "Five Card Poker and the Hell With It" by Max Shulman "Hemingway (A Title Bout in Ten Rounds)" by Jed Kiley
Features Covergirl & Playmate of the Month Colleen Farrington (Not Nude & Centerfold) photographed by Peter Basch The Pious Pornographer The Complete Fidelitarian Silverstein in London The Secret Formula
Features Playmate of the Month is Marlene Callahan photographed by Vivienne Lapham "The Deadly Will to Win" by Charles Beaumont "The Buttondown Boys in the Frozen North" by Stewart P. Brown "City Fables" by Hoke Norris "Corrida" by Barnaby Conrad
Features Covergirl Lisa and Linda Vargas (Nude & Centerfold) photographed by Herbert Milford and Mike Shea The Barracudas: Fiction by Budd Schulberg The Manipulators: Article by Vance Packard Right Little, Tight Little Island: Travel Article by John Sack Mike Wallace Interviews Playboy