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Welcome to Don Troy's Playboy Collectors Card Information Site

This site was created to serve as an information source for Collectors and Dealers of all types of Playboy Trading Cards. If you are looking for pictures of naked women, let me suggest you have come to the wrong place. There are very few pictures on this site and even less nudity. What you will find here are notes and statistical information on just about every kind of Playboy Card issued from 1993 to roughly when Playboy became "politically correct" in the 2010s.

How to use the site: The links at left will take you to a web page describing the card edition or information in the title. Sets released before 1/1/2000 can be accessed directly through this page, sets released between 2000 and 2010 can be accessed through Sets between 2000 and 2010. Sets released after 2010 can be accessed through the Update and other sets after 2010 If you don't see the set you are looking for listed in the site menu at left, try the other start page or e-mail me and I'll try to help.

Beginning in 1993 Playboy centerfold cards were released in monthly editions which covered the years 1954 to 1993. In between monthly editions, other sets for Pamela Anderson, Jenny McCarthy, SuperModels Lingerie, and Chromium Covers were released. Starting in 2000 Stellar Collectibles also released newsstand edition related card sets, and expansion sets for monthly cards were released in 2002 and again in 2004. Then after a long delay, centerfold collectors card releases resumed with Update 3 in 2014 and ran through Update 7 which brought the series to a completion 2017. At this point Playboy magazine was being published sporadically and without nudity. Therefor this forms a convenient end point for collecting Playboy trading cards.

Despite a brief return to nudity in 2018 and 2019, Playboy magazine has now ceased publication. Photography in the last two years of the magazine could not compare prior work, so personally I find no reason seek cards for Playmates in the last years. The adult trading card market is also only a shadow what it once was. However, Stellar continues to release Playboy trading cards based on archived material, and there are still collectors looking for new releases.

Returning to the beginning, Star Pics and Morganna sets were released well before the common Playboy Collectors cards but are of interest to some collectors so information on them is included on the site, the links are at left.

For those looking to find a particular playmate's cards, you have to know what month and year she appeared in the magazine, which is now easy enough using an internet search. Centerfolds almost always had a pictorial and centerfold card relased, and sometimes a cover card if they were on the cover of the magazine. Sometimes they also appeared on a card back or in chase cards if they were a Playmate of the Year. I do not know of any comprehensive list of all Playmate card appearances. If you include the newsstand editions there are way too many possibilities to check. Regardless, if you do not see what you are looking for e-mail me and I may be able to help.

This site is updated as new information becomes available or when I find the need and/or enthusiasm. Site visitors are encouraged to bring possible errors to my attention. Comments or questions about the site or its content should be directed to me at dtroy10610@gmail.com

Disclaimer: The information contained here is as reliable as I can make it, it has been taken from many different places; primary sources were Sports Time and Paradigm Collectors Club flyers, Stellar Collectibles flyers, Playboy Catalog editions, The Lasting Images Price Guide Number 2, Blue Waves or Stellar promotional information or product notices, Playboy Collectors Club of America Guides, and my own card collection. I am not affiliated with Playboy, Private Collections, Sports Time, Paradigm, Stellar Collectibles, Blue Waves Trading, Star Pics, or any other group that has issued trading cards. Information in brackets on any of the pages is unconfirmed and questionable.

Card Pricing....You will not find many comments on card quality or pricing here, although sometimes I can't help it. I do try to emphasize relative rarity of cards or sets when appropriate. Actual prices for cards may change faster than I am willing to update the site, and the best source of pricing information is comparison between several recent dealers price lists, prices of recently completed web auctions. Unfortunately the Non-Sports Card Price Guide magazine no longer lists Playboy cards in the price guide (it was not all that accurate to begin with, but at least they made an effort). If you are interested in one idiots opinion about an adult card price, ask me, I can be as wrong as anyone else.

So you want to buy a card? In the Links to Prices and Dealers section at the left you will find some dealers, I am one of them, the number of adult card dealers has been steady since about 1999, and it is still easy to find common cards. Certain chase cards were scarce at release or are now becoming scarce, for example market availability of October through December autographs is extremely low.

Legalese: I don't own the names of any of the card sets referred to on this site, nor do I make any claim to the words Playboy, Playmate, or any other trademarked description used, and all descriptions are strictly for the information of the reader. Any opinions expressed are mine anlone. Readers may download and copy this file for their own use, but may not distribute the information contained here without permission.

Confused about the terms used?Try this link: This is an response to a newsgroup question I wrote years ago defining some common card collecting terms, like binder set, common set, and chase cards.