Judge — January 23, 1926 — page 32: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a reader-participation contest where Judge magazine invites submissions to complete an unfinished comic strip. The incomplete three-panel strip shows a man in a top hat with flowers at a tailor shop advertising "Pants Pressed While You Wait." Subsequent panels depict escalating chaos—figures being launched into the air, and what appears to be an explosion or catastrophic malfunction inside the building. The joke premise seems to be that the pants-pressing service goes comically wrong. Readers were invited to supply their own punchline for the final panel, with the winner receiving $25. The contest leverages visual slapstick humor typical of early 20th-century comic strips, where mechanical mishaps and physical comedy were standard entertainment fare.