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
Rogue (magazine) Rogue (magazine) Rogue was a Chicago-based men's magazine published by William Hamling from 1956 until 1965. Founding editor Frank M. Robinson was followed by other editors, including Harlan Ellison and Bruce Elliott. The magazine was subtitled as "Designed for Men". The magazine was a direct competitor to "Playboy", offering nude and semi-nude photographs plus sex advice aimed at a male audience. "Rogue" featured a wider array of fiction and science fiction than did "Playboy", along with much coverage of jazz by Ted White and others. The first two magazine articles written by Hunter S. Thompson appeared in "Rogue" in 1961.