Playmate of the Month
Karen Valez photographed by Arny Freytag.

Interview
Paul and Linda McCartney by Joan Goodman.

Features
"While The Democrats Slept" by Ron Reagan
"Playboy's College Basketball Preview" by Anson Mount
"Ex-Wives" by Bruce Jay Friedman
"I'm Sick of Celebrities" by Roy Blount Jr.
"Well, Excuuuuuse Us!" by Steve Martin
"Quarterly Reports: Deal Me In" by Andrew Tobias
"Citizen (Howard) Hughes" by Michael Drosnin.

Sex Stars of 1984
Prince, Daryl Hanna, Kathleen Turner, Grace Jones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sybil Danning, Tanya Roberts, Christopher Lambert, Michael Jackson, Sting, Ane Carlisle, Tom Berenger, Melanie Griffith, Barbara Williams, Steven Bauer, Ornella Muti, Jeremy Irons, Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges, Mia Nygren, Claudia Ohana, Sylvia Kristel, Kelly LeBrock, Mel Gibson, Sonia Braga, Rutger Hauer, Brooke Shields, Diane Lane, Linda Bleir, Michael Pare, Tome Hanks, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Selleck, Christie Brinkley, Robert Redford, Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Terry Moore, Nastassja Kinski, Bo Derek and Joan Collins.

Suzanne Somers (cover and inside) photographed by Richard Fegley and Steve Wayda, photos by Stan Malinowski.