Formerly Known Playboy Newsstand Specials, Now Know as Playboy Special Editions are a spin-off series of Playboy magazine devoted entirely to photographs of the Playboy models that are found sporadically scattered in the monthly Playboy magazine.
What are Playboy Newsstand Specials
Unlike the monthly Playboy magazines, which feature a variety of articles, opinion columns, and works of fiction, the only texts found in the Playboy Special Editions, Playboy Newsstand Specials are captions of the photographs and readers' letters. Approximately two issues are published each month. In addition, the models that appear in Playboy Newsstand Specials are not necessarily former Playmates of the Month, though such Playmates also appear in them. Early issues of Playboy Newsstand Specials, 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.
