Judge, 1923-06-23 · page 35 of 36
Judge — June 23, 1923 — page 35: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page collects humorous single-panel cartoons on various topics: **Top left**: A working-class man asks "Wot kinda pie ya got?"—simple working-class humor about food. **"The great American question"**: Two men discuss housing affordability, a persistent social issue. **Housing problem**: A joke about someone solving housing by ending up in jail (dark humor about poverty/homelessness). **King Tut's tomb**: References the 1922 King Tutankhamun discovery craze; the joke involves finding alcohol in the tomb. **"Flu" cartoon**: Playing on death/afterlife, using the recent Spanish Flu pandemic (1918-1920) as the punchline for how someone arrived in heaven. **Insurance joke**: Relies on disability humor—a man with a wooden leg seeking fire or life insurance presents comedic absurdity to the manager. **Romance cartoon**: Simple romantic humor about distant love. These represent typical Judge satire: topical references, working-class life, and period-specific anxieties mixed with slapstick and wordplay.
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