Eyeful Vol 04 No 06 June 1948

Our latest magazine is from the mind of Robert Harrison, publisher of such delights as Titter and Beauty Parade.

Harrison worked for Motion Picture Daily in 1941 when he began cutting and pasting pictures to make Beauty Parade after everyone else had gone home for the day. Harrison knew what he liked, and his tastes were a tad more fetishistic than the girlie mags on the stands at the time. Harrison liked high heels and lingerie. In fact, he liked them so much that the models were never without them in his publications. Never.

While there was no nudity, Harrison's mags had a sense of style, gaudy though it may be. He featured models like Bettie Page and strippers of the day in pictorials with baggy-pants comedians that looked like they came right off the burlesque stage, which in fact they had.

Magazines like Modern Man and Playboy eventually drove Harrison off the newsstands, but not before he reigned supreme for over a decade, giving us a more innocent girlie mag.