1000 Pin-Up Girls

In 1940s and ’50s America girlie magazines couldn’t show much, so publisher Robert Harrison lured his readers in with vibrant covers by top pin-up artists Earl Moran, Billy DeVorss, and Peter Driben. This edition celebrates this eye-catching candy with every cover of Beauty Parade, Wink, Titter, Eyeful, Flirt, and Whisper, from 1942 to 1955.Big curves and suggestive smiles“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.