Judge, 1908-10-10 · page 16 of 16
Judge — October 10, 1908 — page 16: what you’re looking at
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This is a humorous six-panel comic strip about a boastful young hunter named Johnny who brags about hunting "bears, lions, tigers on the hill" to his toy teddy bears. The bears, charmed by his swagger, arrange an elaborate prank: they obtain a real stuffed bear from "Ike Moses' store" and set it up as a trap in the woods. When Johnny encounters what he believes is an actual bear—complete with "waving claws, jaws gaping grim"—he panics completely, abandoning his gun and fleeing in terror to a nearby pond. The comic's joke is the comeuppance: the mighty hunter gets a genuine scare and becomes "muddy, shaking," while his teddy bears rejoice at seeing their boastful owner humbled. The strip satirizes childhood braggadocio and false bravado, suggesting that big talk often precedes embarrassing reality. The reference to "Barnum's show" (P.T. Barnum's famous circus) adds to the artificial spectacle setup.
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Auage- LITTLE JOHNNY AND THE TEDDY BEARS. A MIGHTY HUNTER GETS A SCARE WHEN JOHNNY REALLY MEETS A BEAR. HIS OY 6. ‘They chase him to a pond near by, He drops his gun in wild despair en give a real old Teddy cry, And rushes shrieking from the lair, And stand, all soubled up with joy ‘The Teds pursuing with the bear. To see the muddy, shaking boy. 5. His hat forsakes his rising hair. NOE , 2 The Teddies, mute with awe Watch Johnny disappear He's afier bears, indeed! “They One that will beat old Barnum’s show, | , 3. It-stands before Ike Moses’ store, 4. ‘They place it in a thicket dim, A stuffed Lear about to roar. With waving claws, jaws gaping grim; eddies, working with a will, And while the ‘Teds in ambush lie old Bruin up the hill. ‘The awful sight meets Johnny's eye. an | | » COPYRIUNT, 1908, BY JUDGE COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, FIFTH AVENUE AND MADISON SQUARE, NEW YORK. The, Firat Series of the ad of“ Little Johnny and the Teddy Bears” is now ready in handsome book form. Price, 60 cents. For sale y book dealers everywi r sent postpaid upon receipt of price by Judge Company, Filth Avenue and Madison Square; New York. comicbooks.com