ARTICLES AND FEATURES
36 The Lean Green Fighting Machine Richard Bocklet
41 Profile: Wynton Marsalis Leonard Feather
44 Outrageous Olympics Bill Plympton and Warren D. Leight
62 Pete Rose: Chasing a Legend Ivan Prashker
67 The 100 Best Truck Stops in the USA Art Gatti
78 A Lusty Memoir Condor Van Harding
82 Great American Jugs Ron Daniels
83 Hot Summer Sizzlers Jim Asher
84 Private Lives: Making Waves
104 Toys For Men Robert Edelstein and Hans Fantel
PICTORIALS
27 Gina Jean Rougeron
48 The 'Girl Next Door' August Entries
55 The 'Girl Next Door' August Winner
71 The Return of Mattie Kay Jean Rougeron
87 Brenda Blumbild
99 Gilda Mario Marnoto
DEPARTMENTS
6 The Fox Speaks Editorial
8 Feedback Correspondence
15 Newswave
19 The Great Outdoors Michael Kimmel
20 Going Places Chris Dubbs
22 The Right Tracks Steven Schwartz and David Browne
23 About Entertainment Tom Seligson
24 Booktalk Donald Newlove
26 Keeping Score Ken Barber
Features in This Issue
Covergirl Mattie Kay Photographed by Jean Rougeron
Inside The Real Man's Olympics
100 Best Truck Stops In The USA
The New Army: Why America Can't Lose
Pete Rose On Steinbrenner Cosell and The Press
About Gallery
Gallery is an adult sex 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, even using the same style font for the cover. Many people therefore assumed Gallery was also published by Hugh Hefner as a companion publication to Playboy. After Hefner sent a letter to Bailey pointing out the magazine's many similarities, the layout of Gallery was quickly changed.
Financial difficulties plagued the magazine from the start, causing Bailey to leave during its inaugural year. Following publication of the January 1974 issue, Fenton was forced to forfeit ownership of the magazine to its distributor.
Montcalm Publications, based in New York, eventually acquired Gallery and added it to its portfolio of periodicals. Montcalm also published The Twilight Zone Magazine in the 1980s, apparently in imitation of Penthouse magazine's offshoot Omni.
Montcalm Publishing went bankrupt in March 2008, owing many photographers and models unpaid wages; some were owed as much as $100,000.
On April 30, 2008, Gallery magazine was purchased by the Magna Publishing Group. On December 22, 2015, Magna Publishing Group was acquired by 1-800-PHONESEX.
