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# "Who's Who in Judge" - Percy Leo Crosby This page profiles Percy Leo Crosby, a prominent artist and illustrator of the early 1920s. The photograph shows him posing with his artist's palette beside an easel displaying one of his landscape paintings. The accompanying text humorously describes Crosby as a versatile "all-around artist of both continents" who paints and creates lithographs. It includes a joke about his mustache—explicitly stating he *doesn't* use it to paint landscapes, a humorous denial suggesting readers might have made that assumption. The biographical details note his Brooklyn birth, early commitment to art, World War I service as a captain, and subsequent prolific career illustrating for major magazines including Scandinavian publications. This appears to be a lighthearted celebrity profile typical of Judge's "Who's Who" feature.
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WHO’S WHO IN JUDGE HIS distinguished looking gentleman, folks, is none other than Percy Leo Crosby, famous all-around artist of both continents. As you can see by this photograph, Mr. Crosby is also a painter of no mean ability and is exhibiting lithographs this year in the National Academy and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Mr. Crosby denies emphatically that he uses the mustache to paint his landscapes with. Percy was born in Brooklyn, but it is said he left there as soon as he was able to walk and made straight for the Art Students League. When the Big War broke out he went in as a second lieutenant and came out as a captain. With such a war record behind him he immediately got married and began drawing for every magazine in the world, including the Scan- dinavian. PERCY LEO CROSBY JUDGE, Volume 87, No. 2249, December 6, Published Weekly and copyrighted 1924 by 024. Entered ie-Judge Co. i N.Y. under Act of March 3, 1879. $5.00 a year. 1Sc a copy ., Vice-President afd Editorial Director; Norman Anthony, For advertising rates address E. R. Crowe & Company, Inc. New York: 25 Vanderbilt Avenue, Chicago: 22S North Michigan Avenue. comicbooks.com