Judge, 1909-09-11 · page 7 of 16
Judge — September 11, 1909 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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**"The Yarns of Captain Fibb"** is a tall-tale comic strip where a sailor recounts an absurdly impossible adventure—being sucked into a whirlpool, sinking to the ocean bottom, and walking ashore dry. The humor relies on the exaggerated, obvious falsehood of the narrative, playing on the tradition of seafaring tall tales. The surrounding single-panel gags target various subjects: "Take Warning" satirizes women's paradoxical nature (a common period trope); "The Married Man" jokes about wives accusing husbands of imagined misdeeds upon summer's end; "Poor Stock for Investment" mocks inflated balloon stock; and "Obeying Orders" presents Irish-dialect humor about a wife literally following a doctor's sleeping-powder instructions too literally. These reflect early 1900s American humor conventions: skepticism toward investment schemes, stereotypical Irish-American caricatures, and domestic comedy centered on marital conflict. The overall page demonstrates Judge's mix of narrative comics and topical satire aimed at middle-class readers.
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THE YARNS OF CAPTAIN FIBB. Twig SEA Aint ow pin’ at saybreak we finds oui ea which we couldn't find Then bimeby we feels ourselves g: wide circle, which wuz gittin’ smaller ler every time we goes ‘round. Well, sees that we wuz on the edge of a whirl 4. At last the yallant ship takes a header and is sucked down bow first inter the whirling water, and we all says a last good-by ! “HIS RENT IS BEHIND. POOR STOCK FOR INVESTMENT. HE STOCK of balloons is going up, The makers ar But don't you put a The darn things PENNANT REGULATED. Knicker—* What will be ni Bocker—* Baseball will be tax on gate receipts." ‘ontrolled by a HEN a man tells you his wife is as sly ava cat, you begin to smell a mouse yourself, 5. Well, split me leak in the bottom, runs out through ab in the ea : hody of water is drained to the last drop! — TAKE WARNING. PARADOX is woman, -d, lest you come to harm: n she smiles the fairest, takes men’s hearts by storm. 6 Yessir! ‘Then we all walks ashore on the bottom of the sea, safe and sound, every e of us. Blow me if it w tthe strangest thing, that ever happened to me! THE MARRIED MAN. Ti. ENDING of the summer brings His wife; there's trouble brewing, For she accuses him of things He never thought of doing. OBEYING ORDERS. Mr. O° Rafferty (confined to his bed)—"* Och, Bridget, phwat di dyer he afther wakin® me up for?"* Mrs. O'Ragerty—"* An’ didn’t th’ docthor tell me to give yez a shleepin’ powder iviry two hours?” comicbooks.com