Judge — May 1, 1909 — page 16: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a six-panel comic story titled "Little Johnny and the Taffy 'Possums." Johnny and other children discover possums and play pranks involving them—placing a "bomb" (likely a firecracker) on a school front step labeled "A Bomb! Beware!" The comic follows Johnny's mischievous antics with the animals, escalating through various scenes including encounters with a professor and teacher. The humor centers on childhood pranks and animal antics typical of early 20th-century comic strips. The "Black Hand Game" reference in the subtitle appears to invoke contemporary criminal extortion schemes, though the actual story involves innocent childhood mischief rather than serious crime—the joke being a playful exaggeration. The comic is straightforward children's entertainment with no apparent deeper political satire.