Judge, 1927-01-15 · page 35 of 36
Judge — January 15, 1927 — page 35: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **subscription advertisement** for *Judge* magazine, described as "The World's Wittiest Weekly." The page uses boxing/fighting imagery—a cartoon child throwing a punch labeled "KNOCK ENNUI FOR A GOAL"—as a metaphor for the magazine's purpose: to combat boredom and tedium ("ennui") with humor and satire. The ad emphasizes *Judge's* editorial strengths: sparkling humor, satirical commentary on current events, theater reviews, and fearless opinions attacking "hypocrisy, dullness, provincialism and boredom." The "incidentally do it now" tagline and dollar-bill tear-off coupon encourage immediate subscription—ten weeks for one dollar. This appears to be a **house advertisement** promoting the magazine to potential readers, rather than political commentary on a specific figure or event.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
KNOCK ENNUI FOR A GOAL!! Biff, bing, right in the eye, that’s JUDGE every week—a knock-out for ennui with a mitt full of fun No other weekly contains the sparkling, vivacious good humor enlightening satiric notes on current topics and events; the brilli clever reviews of the theater; the essness in expressions of opinions; th intolerance of hypocrisy, dullness, provincialism and boredom, as JUDGE Kick in a dollar bill and you can have JUDGE for 10 weeks { 7 a tl! JUDGE—'The World's Wittiest Weekl 627 West 43d Street, New Y Here's your dollar. Let me sce 10 copies of y mitt full of fur 0 . ‘ial . State comicbooks.com