Harrison Magazines

Eyeful, Volume 5, Number 7
Eyeful Magazine, Inc.
New York, New York
1951

digital replica

In the 1940s and 1950s, Robert Harrison published “girlie” magazines on pulp paper with titles like Wink, Titter, Beauty Parade, Flirt, and Eyeful. The models included chorus girls, strippers and burlesque entertainers, with text and comic images frequently referring to Broadway.

Two-page layouts were often like burlesque presentations, with an accent on jokes and gags, often involving puns. This issue of Eyeful has innuendo-driven silliness about male fascination with the allure of women.

Some of the tortured humor requires models to wear unlikely accessories, which may serve as fetishes for some. Shapely women appear in roller skates, boxing gloves, wrestling shoes, Native American feathers, and bath bubbles.

Others wear more conventional pin-up attire, including panties, garter belt, fur stole, negligee, and bikinis. Hosiery consists of fishnets, full-fashioned, and patterned. Heels top out at about four inches.

Features joke about astrology, wrestling, women who have dogs as pets, French men, wacky inventions, and the Tornado from Trinidad. The array of models includes Jill Kane, Toni Sands, Dee Dawn, Jan Baker, Meg Marlow, June Frew, Bee James, Donna Darling, and Betty Howard.

Ads offer instruction to become an artist, detective, upholstery cleaner, and radio technician. Products promise to cure baldness, kidney trouble, and acne.

Retailers promote jewelry, hospitalization insurance, trick dice, television bank, men's suits, stage undies, shoes lifts, tool kits, weight-reduction devices, a necktie that glows in the dark, books and comics.

The digital replica shows all content of the 60-page magazine in the original page sequence. Picture tonality was adjusted and shadows reduced in pursuit of clarity.

All photographs are monochrome. In the original, some pages include regions in red. These appear gray in the ebook.

All new scans.

The product is a convenient digital volume that serves cheerful cheesecake wrapped in silk, nylon, satin, lace, leather, and fur. Light and friendly, this 1950s Eyeful issue laughs at the irresistible appeal of female beauty for men. The ebook version provides the best mechanism to enjoy this post-war, pin-up fun for regular guys.

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