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Playboy Special Editions
A Playboy Special Edition cover feat. Christi Taylor

A Playboy Special Edition cover feat. Christi Taylor
Executive Editor Jeff Cohen
Categories Photography/Erotica
Frequency 2 issues per month
Publisher Playboy Publishing
First issue 1983
Company Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
Website www.playboyse.com

Playboy Special Editions (formerly known as flats, then Newsstand Specials[1]) are a spinoff series of Playboy magazine devoted entirely to softcore nude photographs of the Playboy models that are found sporadically scattered in the monthly Playboy magazine.

Unlike the monthly magazine, which features a variety of articles, opinion columns, and works of fiction, the only texts found in the Special Editions are captions of the photographs and readers' letters. Approximately two issues are published each month. In addition, the models that appear in the Special Editions are not necessarily former Playmates of the Month, though such Playmates also appear in them.

Early issues, beginning in 1983, featured approximately 100 pages of old reprint and outtake photos of Playmates with no specially-commissioned photos. Issues from the early 1990s began to include a number of "one-shot" models purchased in bulk from glamour photographers. By the mid-1990s, Playboy had established a unique identity for the line by mixing new shots of recent Playmates with new models, some of whom soon became as popular as the Playmates themselves.

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Playboy magazine began supplementing its monthly edition in the mid-1960s with irregularly-published special editions devoted to, for example, its cartoons or the Playboy Clubs. The first edition, The Best from Playboy in 1964, was nothing like the present-day specials. Its 120 pages contained a sixteen-page Jayne Mansfield pictorial, but was otherwise filled with articles, including the celebrated 1962 interview with Miles Davis. A 1972 Little Annie Fanny special is highly sought after by Harvey Kurtzman collectors.

In the 1970s, perhaps in conjunction with the appearance of Oui, the special editions would feature somewhat more explicit photography or situations than Playboy itself would run at the time. One release, 1976's Noelle, was quite notorious in its day for its racy content.

In 1984, Playboy published the first volume of its flagship Special Edition, Book of Lingerie, which featured 110 pages of photos of Playmates from the last decade (reprints and outtakes, with no specially-commissioned photos). The magazine sold extremely well, and a second edition, in 1987, proved the market was there for the Newsstand Specials, as they were formally called at this time, to begin a regular, formal sales cycle. Each Newsstand Special would have a two-month shelf life, with two titles published each month.

The greatly increased demand for new photos to fill the 24 editions published annually -- reprints from the early 1970s having little erotic value to readers twenty years later -- required Playboy to look further than their own archives to fill the page count. Newsstand Specials of the late 1980s and early 1990s would often feature previously unpublished outtakes from Playmate pictorials, but also a number of "one-shot" models, possibly posing under a pseudonym or unnamed entirely, bought in bulk from glamour photographers. Sometimes these would resurface in other magazines; outtakes from a 1992-93 shoot with a model named Simone Burkhard which first appeared in Playboy's Girls of Summer '93 were published in Perfect 10 some five years later.

By the mid-1990s, Playboy had formalized its model process to help give the Newsstand Specials their own unique identity. Commissioning regular shoots with Playmates from the last two or three years provided an ongoing source of new photos which increased the models' popularity and won them new fans, but the editions also found new talent popular enough to warrant multiple appearances. Models such as Alley Baggett, Patricia Ford and Sung Hi Lee rarely or never appeared in the monthly Playboy, but were featured in the Special Editions dozens of times.

By the end of the 1990s, the label Newsstand Special had been phased out in favor of Special Edition, and a host of regular publications had joined Book of Lingerie (renamed simply Lingerie) on the shelves. One edition each of Playmate Review, Nude Playmates and Girlfriends, among others, are published annually. College Girls is published three times a year.

By 2005, the Playmates had actually found themselves completely squeezed out of Lingerie. Its 100th edition was the first to feature no Playmates at all; Playboy has such a bank of available, popular models that it no longer needs the Playmates to sell some of its Special Editions.

There are several long-running series of Special Editions, as well as short series and one-offs.

A cover of Book of Lingerie - Playboy Special Editions' flagship series - featuring model Bethany Lorraine
A cover of Book of Lingerie - Playboy Special Editions' flagship series - featuring model Bethany Lorraine

Playboy Special Editions' most popular series is Lingerie (formerly known as Book of Lingerie), which is published on a bimonthly basis. The first issue was released as Book of Lingerie in 1984. It became bimonthly as from November 1988 and had its name changed to Lingerie as from September 2002.

First Playmate Review issue in 1985 featuring Playmate of the Year Karen Velez
First Playmate Review issue in 1985 featuring Playmate of the Year Karen Velez

As its name implies, this series features only the Playmates of the month who appeared in the 12 Playboy magazine issues during the past year. The cover of the issue depicts the playmate who is the current Playmate of the year.

  • Playmates - The First 15 Years 1983
  • Playmates - The Second 15 Years 1984

  • Pocket Playmates No. 1 May 1995
  • Pocket Playmates No. 2 November 1995
  • Pocket Playmates No. 3 March 1996
  • Pocket Playmates No. 4 May 1996
  • Pocket Playmates No. 5 August 1996
  • Pocket Playmates No. 6 February 1997

  • Twenty-One Playmates Vol.1 1996
  • Twenty-One Playmates Vol.2 1997

A Playboy College Girls issue featuring girls from the Big 12 Conference in 1997
A Playboy College Girls issue featuring girls from the Big 12 Conference in 1997

The models featured in this series are usually selected from the student population of American colleges and universities.

At first, the magazine was published only in the fall to roughly coincide with the beginning of the school year. Each year, the magazine includes a feature on students of an athletic conference, usually from a BCS conference. For instance, the 1997 issue (pictured) featured the Big 12 but also students from other schools.

The 2006 issue caused some controversy at Baylor University, which has a religious affiliation. Baylor declared that associating with the magazine would be a violation of the school's code of conduct.[2]

A Vixens issue featuring Kimberly Williams
A Vixens issue featuring Kimberly Williams

The Voluptuous Vixens / Vixens series features models with prodigious breasts.

  • Fantasies (For Men and Women) Winter 1991
  • Fantasies (For Men and Women) Spring 1991

This series features "natural" models in a tacit acknowledgement that some models are unnatural (i.e. have breast implants and other cosmetic surgery).

  • Working Women 1984 (Covergirls unknown)
  • Working Women 1988 (Covergirl: Cynthia Kaye)

First Playboy Special Edition issue in 1983: Bunnies #3
First Playboy Special Edition issue in 1983: Bunnies #3

There is a variety of Special Editions that are only single issues.

  • The Playboy Cartoon Album 1 1963 (Contains cartoons only)
  • The Playboy Cartoon Album 2 1965 (Contains cartoons only)
  • The Playboy Cartoon Album 3 1969 (Contains cartoons only)
  • The Playboy Cartoon Album 4 1971 (Contains cartoons only)
  • The Playboy Cartoon Album 5 1972 (Contains cartoons only)
  • The Playboy Cartoon Album 6 1973 (Contains cartoons only)
  • The Playboy Cartoon Album 7 1980 (Contains cartoons only)

  • The Best from Playboy 1964 (Cover consists of 6 Playboy Magazine covers)
  • The Best from Playboy 1968 (Cover consists of 6 Playboy Magazine covers)
  • The Best from Playboy 1969 (Cover consists of 6 Playboy Magazine covers)
  • The Best from Playboy 1970 (Cover consists of 6 Playboy Magazine covers)
  • The Best from Playboy 1971 (Cover consists of 6 Playboy Magazine covers)
  • The Best from Playboy 1972 (Cover consists of 6 Playboy Magazine covers)
  • The Best from Playboy 1973 (Cover consists of 6 Playboy Magazine covers)
  • The Best from Playboy (First Printing) 1975 (Cover consists of 6 Playboy Magazine covers)
  • The Best from Playboy (Second Printing) 1975 (Covergirl unknown)
  • The Best from Playboy 1982 (Cover consists of 6 Playboy Magazine covers)
  • The Best from Playboy 1983 (Cover consists of 6 Playboy Magazine covers)

  • Playboy's Holiday Album 1970 (Covergirl: Gwen Wong)
  • Playboy's Holiday Album 1971 (Covergirl: Shay Knuth)

  • The Girls of Playboy (First Printing) 1973 (Covergirl: Barbi Benton)
  • The Girls of Playboy (Second Printing) 1975 (Covergirl: Liv Lindeland)
  • The Girls of Playboy (Third Printing) 1978 (Covergirl: Claudia Jennings)
  • The Girls of Playboy 2 (First Printing) 1974 (Covergirl: Marilyn Cole)
  • The Girls of Playboy 2 (Second Printing) Unknown (Covergirl: Christine Maddox)
  • The Girls of Playboy 2 (Third Printing) 1978 (Covergirl: Miki Garcia)
  • The Girls of Playboy 3 (First Printing) 1978 (Covergirl: Daina House)
  • The Girls of Playboy 3 (Second Printing) Unknown (Covergirl: Daina House)
  • The Girls of Playboy 4 (First Printing) 1980 (Covergirl: Debra Jo Fondren)
  • The Girls of Playboy 4 (Second Printing) 1982 (Covergirl: Debra Jo Fondren)
  • The Girls of Playboy 5 1982 (Covergirl: Jeana Tomasino)

  • Eve Today (First Printing) 1974 (Covergirl unknown)
  • Eve Today (Second Printing) 1974 (Covergirl unknown)
  • Eve Today Book Two 1975 (Covergirl unknown)

  • Ecstasy (Book One: Women's Sexual Fantasies) 1976 (Covergirl unknown)
  • Ecstasy (Book Two: Men's Sexual Fantasies) 1976 (Covergirl unknown)

  • Sexy Ladies 1977 (Covergirl unknown)
  • More Sexy Ladies 1978 (Covergirl unknown)

  • Fashion For Men Spring/Summer 1981 (Covergirl unknown)
  • Fashion For Men Fall/Winter 1981 (Covergirl: Karen Howard)
  • Fashion For Men Spring/Summer 1982 (Covergirl: Tina Turner)
  • Fashion For Men Fall/Winter 1982 (Covergirl: Raquel Welch)
  • Fashion For Men Spring 1983 (Covergirl: Christie Brinkley)

  • Pl*yb*y (Harvard Lampoon Parody) 1966 (Covergirl unknown)
  • Playboy's John Dempsey 1970 (See: John Dempsey; contains cartoons only)
  • The Sexual Revolution 1970 (Covergirl unknown)
  • The Youth Culture 1971 (Covergirl unknown)
  • Playboy's Phil Interlandi 1971 (See: Phil Interlandi; contains cartoons only)
  • Playboy's Little Annie Fanny 1972 (See: Little Annie Fanny; contains cartoons only)
  • Playboy's Alden Erikson 1972 (See: Alden Erikson; contains cartoons only)
  • Playboy's Vargas Girls 1972 (See: Alberto Vargas)
  • Mirror of Venus 1972 (Covergirl unknown)
  • The Sensuous Society 1973 (Covergirl unknown)
  • Women by 10 1973 (Covergirl unknown)
  • Playboy's Gahan Wilson 1973 (See: Gahan Wilson; contains cartoons only)
  • The Pocket Playboy #1 1973 (Covergirl: Paulette Lindberg)
  • Love Games 1975 (Covergirl unknown)
  • Deborah's Dreams (A Victorian Fantasy) 1976 (Covergirl unknown)
  • Love Scenes 1976 (Covergirl unknown)
  • Noelle (and the twelve nights of Christmas) 1976 (Covergirl: Noelle)
  • Playboy's Buck Brown 1981 (See: Buck Brown; contains cartoons only)
  • Leading Ladies 1981 (Covergirl: Bo Derek)
  • Dreams (Richard Fegley) 1982 (Covergirl unknown)
  • Playbore 1983 (Covergirl: Barbi Benton)

  1. ^ a b Playboy Special Editions FAQ
  2. ^ "Playboy back at Baylor", Waco Tribune, April 21, 2001. Retrieved on 2007-01-26. 


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