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| Jan-61 | Connie Cooper; Anton Chekhov; Ernest Hemingway; four pages of LeRoy Neiman paintings, Skiing In Squaw Valley; full page Vargas Girl; Playmate Review. | $5.00 | $15.50 | $10.29 | |
| Feb-61 | Barbara Ann Lawford; Girls of New York; success in business by J. Paul Getty; Hypnosisby Ken Purdy; Playboy Jazz Poll Winners includes photos of Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Frank Sinatra, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Milt Jackson, Benny Goodman | $4.50 | $10.50 | $7.50 | |
| Mar-61 | Tonya Crews; Marlon Brando interview; Hip Comics and the New Humorwith panelists Steve Allen, Lenny Bruce, Mike Nichols, Mort Sahl, Jonathan Winters, Jules Feiffer and Bill Dana; Fiction by Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Woman; LeRoy Neiman painting; Vargas Girl; Willem De Kooning and Cesar Balsa. | $5.00 | $36.00 | $14.09 | |
| Apr-61 | Nancy Nielson; Linda Gamble: PMOY; Big Business Booby Traps; Jack Sharkey, Paul Krassner and Jay Levinson; full page Vargas Girl. | $5.00 | $20.00 | $10.65 | |
| May-61 | Susan Kelly; Girls of Sweden; Silverstein in Alaska; private planes; article, Odds Man Out by T K Brown III, examines gambling systems; Jules Feiffer cartoon; full-page Vargas Girl. | $2.75 | $18.00 | $9.02 | |
| Jun-61 | Heidi Becker; Ann Richards pictorial; Fiction, Punch by Frederik Pohl; Grand Prix of Monaco; Silverstein in Hawaii; profile of Reno, Nevada. | $5.00 | $15.50 | $9.61 | |
| Jul-61 | Sheralee Connors; Le Crazy Horse pict.; Machina Ex Deux by Arthur C. Clarke; Sex and Censorship in Literature and the Arts; chairs and tables of contemporary designers; The Jazz Singers (part 1). | $5.00 | $14.25 | $8.59 | |
| Aug-61 | Karen Thompson; Girls of Hawaii; Classic Cars of the Thirties; The Jazz Singers (part 2); Vargas Girl. | $4.00 | $15.50 | $8.67 | |
| Sep-61 | Christa Speck; Miami Playboy Club; Football preview with Gary Collins (Maryland), Ernie Davis (Syracuse), Roman Gabriel (NC State); color paintings by LeRoy Neiman, La Plaza del Toros; Jules Feiffer; full page Vargas Girl. | $3.00 | $16.00 | $9.08 | |
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| Oct-61 | Jean Cannon; A Short History of Bathing; Fall and Winter Fashion Forecast photographed by Richard Avedon. | $3.00 | $11.50 | $5.92 | |
| Nov-61 | Dianne Danford; Anita Ekberg pictorial in Federico Fellini film, La Dolce Vita; Playboy Panel on Television with David Suskind, Rod Serling; Holiday Gift Guide; 5 pages of cartoons, Chamber of Horrors by Gahan Wilson; Vargas Girl; Alvin Toffler. | $3.00 | $18.00 | $8.80 | |
| Dec-61 | Lynn Karrol; Playmate Holiday House Party; My Brother, Ernest Hemingway; Wall Street Is Not Monte Carlo; cartoons by Dedini; LeRoy Neiman color sketch of Maxim's of Paris; Vargas Girl, Ernie Kovaks. | $5.50 | $21.25 | $11.23 | |