1000 Pin-Up Girls

<p>“Girls, Gags &amp; Giggles,” ran publisher Robert Harrison’s recipe for dishing up pin-up to the American male. Men loved his tasty dishes, <strong>a mixture of strippers and starlets</strong> 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 <strong>bad girls in satin and leather, fishnet stockings, and six-inch heels</strong> performing slapstick stunts straight from the burlesque stage.<br /><br /> Harrison lured his readers in with <strong>vibrantly painted covers </strong>by top pin-up artists <strong>Earl Moran, Billy DeVorss </strong>and, most famously,<strong> Peter Driben</strong>. This <em>Bibliotheca Universalis</em> edition celebrates this eye-catching candy with <strong>every single cover from <em>Beauty Parade</em>, <em>Wink</em>, <em>Titter</em>, <em>Eyeful</em>, <em>Flirt</em>, and <em>Whisper, </em>from 1942 to 1955</strong>, as well as interior spreads, featuring, among others, <strong>a budding Bettie Page</strong>. In an age when far more graphic material is the norm, <em>1000 Pin-Up Girls</em> celebrates an <strong>era of pin-up and pulp style to fuel your erotic imagination</strong>.</p>