Cover: Marilyn Monroe

Playmate: Barbara Edwards, 35th Anniversary Playmate

Interview: Robert De Niro is the main interview, plus excerpts from previous interviews with Fidel Castro, Mel Brooks, Malcolm X, John Wayne, Barbra Streisand, Jimmy Carter, Bill Cosby, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and Patricia Hearst.

Pictorials: The Great Playmate Hunt featuring first appearances by future Playmates Petra Verkaik, Erika Eleniak, Fawna McClaren, Gianna Amore, Tawni Cable, Rene Tennison and others.

Women of the Fifties
Marilyn Monroe, Janet Pilgrim, June Wilkinson, Joyce Nizzari, Vikki Dougan, Brigitte Bardot, Tina Louise, Elsa Sorensen, Ellen Stratton, Gina Lollobrigida, Anita Ekberg, Diana Dors, Bettie Page, Sophia Loren, Lisa Winters, Jane Mansfield and Elizabeth Ann Roberts. Women of the Sixties
Donna Michelle, Mamie Van Doren, Cynthia Myers, Kim Novak, Carol Doda, Carroll Baker, Catherine Deneuve, Arlene Dahl, Christa Speck, Sharon Tate, Jo Collins, Stella Stevens, Paula Kelly, Joan Collins, June Cochran and Ursula Andress. Women of the Seventies
Barbi Benton, Raquel Welch, Margot Kidder, Sarah Miles, Barbara Bach, Veruschka, Linda Lovelace, Debra Jo Fondren, Marilyn Chambers, Linda Evans, Candy Loving, Elke Sommer, Cludia Jennings, Liv Lindeland Patti McGuire and Dorothy Stratten. Women of the Eighties
Vanna White, Madonna, Mariel Hemingway, Vikki La Motta, Shannon Tweed, Joan Collins, Brigitte Nielsen, Valerie Perrine, Tanya Roberts, Ellen Stohl, Barbara Schantz, Kimberley Conrad, Roxanne Pulitzer, Penny Baker, Kathy Shower, Terry Moore, Bo Derik, Vanity, Jessica Hahn and Kim Basinger.

Features: Fiction: The Fly by George Langelaan, A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury, The Hustler by Walter S. Tevis, The Hildebrand Rarity by Ian Fleming, Ada by Vladimir Nabokov, Tourist Trade by Robert Silverberg, You Must Remember This by Robert Coover, and, The Sunken Woman by Joyce Carol Oates, Sexual Perversity in Chicago from the play by David Mamet.

Articles: How to Apply for a Job by Shepherd Mead, The Origins of the Beat Generation by Jack Kerouak, The Pious Pornographers by William Iversen, A Testament of Hope by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., The Hazards of Prophecy by Arthur C. Clarke, How I would Start Again Today by J. Paul Getty, All the President's Men by Carl Bernsteina and Bob Woodward, memoir, Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas by Larry L. King, memoir, Remembering Tennessee by Truman Capote, memoir, Fast Times at Ridgemont High by Cameron Crowe.

Humor, satire: The Seduction by Jules Feiffer, Avoidism by Roger Price, Teevee Jeebies and Silverstein's Zoo by Shel Silversteain, My War with the Machines by Woody Allen, Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories by Jean Shepherd, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche by Bruce Feirstein, Symbolic Rex by Don Addis, and, How I Invesnted Playboy by Buck Henry, plus, VARGAS GIRL and LeRoy Neiman painting back-to-back on heavy cover stock foldout, Dear Playmates, The Playboy Adivsor, an introduction by Hugh M. Hefner, and much more.

Pages: 312