#201296 - Titter 2 6 1946 Harrison
Titter, Volume 2, No. 6
Titter, Inc. [Robert Harrison]
New York, New York
April 1946
digital replica
Robert Harrison published pin-up titles Wink, Titter, Beauty Parade, Flirt, and Eyeful in the 1940s and 1950s. During WWII, leather and footwear were in short supply. In the postwar period, his magazines sparkled with photos of Broadway beauties in leather pumps with four-, five-, and six-inch heels, full-fashioned nylons, and garter belts. In the 1950s, postal inspectors warned him against including fetish content in his magazines.
The April 1946 issue of Titter gives us a lot to look at, with page after page of pretty legs in and out of stockings and heels, photographed to good advantage. Models include Ann DiPaola, Mary Carmen, Rusty Morgan, Arlene Robinson, Mickey Landers, Beverly Champion, Darlene Marlowe, June Raymond, and Dawn Paige.
Original layouts were like burlesque presentations, with an accent on jokes and gags, often involving puns. Innuendo-driven silliness celebrates the bewitching, enchanting allure of glamorous women in lingerie, hosiery and exotic footwear.
“Articles” joke about a “harpy's” harp, the habits of a superstitious cutie on Friday the 13th, a witch with perpetual potion, a “sandsational kid” in the desert, co-eds wrestling in sexy undies, a bikini'd damsel who has “her ups and downs” on a playground slide, and a frustrating vending machine. Sweethearts who posed for these photos only have first names.
A couple of pictures show models in splendid corsets. Others show garters, garter belts, panties, nylons and fishnets.
Ads offer a necktie that promotes kissing, dresses, work shoes, gypsy fortune-telling cards, bust cream, men's abdominal supporter, hair remover, and stage undies. Advertising announces spicy reading material that appeals to men. Full-page layouts offer photographs of models.
Instruction programs promise to teach how to hypnotize, tend bar, do card tricks, draw cartoons, do ju jitsu, and improve your sex life. Several ads promise training that makes a person powerful.
Contrast and brightness were adjusted and shadows reduced. Although images were carefully edited, due to aging of the pulp paper, not every page shows perfect tone.
Titter, Volume 2, Number 6, consists of 64 pages plus front and back covers. The back cover was missing from the copy we received. Back covers and inside back covers of Titter magazines always consist of full-page advertisements. In the production of the ebook for this issue of Titter, the back cover and inside back cover were derived from another issue.
The ebook presents the complete 64-page magazine in the original sequence in a full-sized digital replica. The page size of the original 1946 volume is slightly larger than typical adult magazines of the 1960s and 1970s. The original page size was retained in the ebook.
All new scans.
Shapely models, witty showgirls, and pretty dancers show their curves in lace, ruffles and ribbons, hose, heels, furs and bows. In ebook format, 70 years after publication, the magazine presents a festival of flirty nonsense from a simpler time.
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