“Girls, Gags & Giggles,” ran publisher Robert Harrison’s recipe for dishing up pin-up to the American male. Men loved his tasty dishes,
a mixture of strippers and starlets
dressed in outfits so fetishistic no one noticed they were never nude. While other magazines delivered the girl next door, Harrison’s publications banked on
bad girls in satin and leather, fishnet stockings, and six-inch heels
performing slapstick stunts straight from the burlesque stage.
Harrison lured his readers in with
vibrantly painted covers
by top pin-up artists
Earl Moran, Billy DeVorss
and, most famously,
Peter Driben
. This
Bibliotheca Universalis
edition celebrates this eye-catching candy with
every single cover from
Beauty Parade
,
Wink
Titter
Eyeful
Flirt
, and
Whisper,
from 1942 to 1955
, as well as interior spreads, featuring, among others,
a budding Bettie Page
. In an age when far more graphic material is the norm,
1000 Pin-Up Girls
celebrates an
era of pin-up and pulp style to fuel your erotic imagination
.