Genre: Adult
Category:
Issue List: Incomplete
Publication: Ceased
Publishers: Ramer Reviews Inc.;
King Pub. Co.
Editors: John F. Edwards | See also Art & Beauty Magazine (1925-1928?),
Art Lovers (1925?),
Art Studio Life (1926?),
Arts Beautiful (1930?), and
Real Art Studies (1930?).
There appear to be two publishers battling over this name in 1925-1926. The title using script lettering changed to Original Artists and Models, while the block lettering added "Trademark Registered" and won. Some auctions attruibute both to Ramer Reviews Inc. The Free-lance Writer's Handbook (1926) (p326) lists Original Artists and Models Magazine at 109 W. 49th St. NY; Merle W. Hersey, editor; Wayne Sabbath, ... while p261 lists Art and Beauty; Ramer Reviews, 104 W 42d St, NY; J.B. Smalley, editor.
Here is a 1925 Time Magazine article titled Pornographia about how local D.A.s in Omaha and Chicago are banning Artists and Models, La Vie Parisienne, Hot Dog, Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang, Cis Weekly "— booklets which, with a clutter of others, including Paris Nights, So This Is Paris, Ziffles, True Confessions... has long fouled the public newsstands and encumbered the mails." |
