Most girlie magazines of the 50's and 60's were published very cheaply. The 1960's in particular saw an explosion of fly-by-night publishers who were here today and gone tomorrow. They would publish a handful of magazines, stiff the models and photographers, then open up somewhere else under a different name. On the other side were the big boys, like Playboy, Knight Publications, and Publisher's Development Corp; companies that paid their bills and tried to elevate the industry or at least give lip-service to doing so.

Somewhere in-between were publishers like Leonard Burtman. Read more