Australian Playboy Australian Playboy Australian Playboy was an Australian imprint of "Playboy" magazine. In 1979 Kerry Packer's ACP Magazines secured the Australian rights to "Playboy" magazine. "Australian Playboy" featured similar content to the lead US edition, and included interviews, feature articles and entertainment reviews. The magazine would rely heavily on the US edition for pictorials, and thus reprinted many pictorials featuring popular US Playmates and celebrities including Pamela Anderson, Erika Eleniak and Anna Nicole Smith. An Australian Playmate of the Year would be crowned annually. The first edition issued February 1979, featured Rosemary Paul on the cover and Karen Pini as the
Gallery (magazine) Gallery (magazine) Gallery is a men's magazine published by Magna Publishing Group. It is one of the more popular "skin" magazines that arose on the "Playboy" magazine pattern in the 1970s. "Gallery" was launched by Ronald L. Fenton and trial attorney F. Lee Bailey in Chicago, Illinois. The first issue appeared on newsstands in November 1972 bearing an uncanny resemblance to "Playboy" magazine. When "Playboy" publisher Hugh Hefner sent a letter to Bailey pointing out the similarities, the layout of "Gallery" was quickly changed. Financial difficulties plagued the magazine from the start, causing Bailey to leave during its inaugural year.