Judge, 1926-04-03 · page 2 of 36
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# Letter-Laughs Explanation This page announces a new feature called "Letter-Laughs" for Judge magazine—a humorous visual game rather than political satire. Readers were invited to cut letters or words from printed text and paste them on paper to create pictures, with captions required to make them funny. The page shows two examples: one depicting a girl awakening in bed (with letters arranged to suggest a "phone" and "p one"), and another showing a man composed of letters with his girlfriend. Judge offered $25 per accepted Letter-Laugh sent to their New York office. This was an early form of participatory humor—essentially a reader-submitted joke contest using cut-and-paste collage techniques, predating modern mail-in comic contests.
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SOMETHING NEW! LETTER-LAUGHS! "LETTER Go!” be autiful girl in her bed and bedclothes awakened by . Jose’ Schorr The modern prince awakes the sleeping beauty JUDGE WILL PAY $25.00 for EACH ONE PRINTED HOW TO MAKE LETTER-LAUGHS Cut out letters, or words, from any printed text matter, and paste them on a sheet of stiff white paper so that they will make a picture. Each LETTER-LAUGH Picture must have a Caption and must be FUNNY! Send your LETTER-LAUGHS to the LETTER-LAUGH EDITOR of JUDGE, 627 West 43d St., New Amnesia end York City and enclose postage if you wish them returned. JUDGE, Volume 90. No. 2318. April 3, 1926, Es a Second-Clare Matter, October 21, 1881 at the Pox-Offie at New York City. N.Y. under Act of March 3 1879. | $500 a yea 15a coo Published Weekly and copyria iced 1926 ‘by Leal Grea ; “Dousi ident: Joseph T. Coone Ass't Treasurer and etary; William M 1 West 434 St N.Y. ‘he fact that ‘and picture appesring ue i protected under the provisions of Section 3 of the Copyriant ial the For advertising rates address Er Crowe & Company, lace New Yorks 28 Vanderbilt Avenue. Chicago’ 225 North Michi comicbooks.com