Judge, 1927-02-26 · page 2 of 36
Judge — February 26, 1927 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This page is **primarily a Packard automobile advertisement**, not a political cartoon. The image shows a luxury 1920s sedan with a formal portrait of an distinguished older gentleman displayed above it. The advertisement uses the concept of "Reputation" as its sales pitch, arguing that Packard's twenty-seven years of public service have earned it greater prestige than mere financial success. The text emphasizes that Packard's reputation reflects "world confidence" in the brand's engines and vehicles across land, sea, and air. The portrait appears to be a dignitary or captain of industry meant to embody the respectability and established excellence the Packard brand claims. The tagline reads "Ask the man who owns one"—a famous Packard advertising slogan. This represents luxury automotive marketing of the era, not satire.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
“The supreme combination of all that is fine in motor cars.” “Reputation Enduring fame is a sufficient reward to many for a lifetime of effort and great accomplishment. Certainly a well deserved and outstanding reputation is even more difficult to achieve than finan- j cial success. Packard has achieved both. But Packard | teputation today, after twenty-seven | years of service to the public, is an even } greater asset than Packard’s absolute financial independence. For Packard is a name which means superlatively fine motor cars in every quarter of the globe. And this reputation, so laboriously and deliberately built up, is more jealously guarded than all the gold in Packard’s surplus. It means more. For it reflects the confi- dence of the world in Packard vehicles— in Packard engines. Packard power has won international renown on the land, in the air and on the water. A generation of uninterrupted success and constant leadership is the best guarantee that that excellence of reputation will be sustained. PACKARD comicbooks.com