Gallery Vol.1 No.3, 1973

About this issue

Gallery volume 1, number 3 (1973), from the first volume of the American men’s magazine that celebrity lawyer F. Lee Bailey launched as publisher in 1972.

About the magazine

Gallery was published in Chicago and reached newsstands in November 1972. Its first issues looked so much like Playboy that the layout was quickly reworked, and financial problems led Bailey to step away within the first year. The magazine survived that difficult start and continued for decades, later published by Montcalm Publishing.

In this issue

The cover of this copy carries the line ‘Heavy Holliday Issue’. This issue belongs to the launch period, before the magazine settled into its long-term form.

Magazine details

• Title: Gallery
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 3
• Year: 1973
• Publisher: Gallery (F. Lee Bailey, publisher), Chicago
• Country: United States
• Language: English

For collectors

First-volume issues of Gallery document the magazine’s short and unusual launch phase under F. Lee Bailey.