DEPARTMENTS
6 RIGHT UP FRONT
8 FEEDBACK
24 THE GALLERY GUIDE
About Entertainment
Sweat Shop
On the Beat
Great Outdoors
Driving Ambitions
34 SHORT TAKES
62 PRIVATE LIVES
107 THE MATING GAME
141 BACK SIDE: EROTIC FICTION
PICTORIALS
9 'GIRL NEXT DOOR' VIDEO INFORMATION
10 CINDY Photos by Ulf Stjernbo
37 BONUS 'GIRL NEXT DOOR' PIN-UP PAGE
38 'GIRL NEXT DOOR' ENTRIES
48 'GIRL NEXT DOOR' MONTHLY WINNER
66 VIVIENNE Photos by John Graham
82 ALEX Photos by Warren Tang
98 PAIGE SUMMERS Photos by Warren Tang
1 10 TANYA Photos by Glenn Morales
130 ZARYN Photos by Hans Toonen & Hans Wientiens
160 AUDREY Photos by Viv Thomas
FEATURES
60 UNCOVER STORIES
Since 1972, Gallery has shown that it's what's up front that counts.
74 BLOWIN' SMOKE
A casual guide to serious cigars. By Barry Janoff
94 THE DEEP BLUE SEA
Was this love, or was he caught between the devil and... Fiction by Tom Callahan
123 THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT POLITICANS
Cartoon Feature by P.C. Vey
Features in This Issue
Covergirl & Centerfold Alex Photographed by Warren Tang
We Dare To Bare: Our All-Time Sexiest Covers
Hot Stuff: A Casual Look At Serious Cigars
Bonus: 24th Anniversary Collector's Issue
Whet Your Whistle
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.
