Judge, 1928-06-23 · page 2 of 36
Judge — June 23, 1928 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This page is **primarily a Gillette razor advertisement**, not satirical content. The top illustration depicts various factors affecting shaving comfort—temperature, humidity, water quality, beard condition, sleep, skin health, nerves, and lather—represented through sketched figures and objects. The ad's claim is that Gillette blades maintain consistent performance ("the one constant thing") regardless of these variable conditions. The text emphasizes manufacturing precision and quality control (inspectors bonus for rejecting imperfect blades). There is **no political satire or social commentary** present. This is a straightforward commercial that appeared in *Judge* magazine, likely alongside editorial cartoons on other pages. The ad targets men's grooming routines by positioning Gillette as the reliable solution to daily shaving challenges.
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TIME - TEMPERATURE + HUMIDITY — pena ORS ES * WATER * BEARD - SLEEP * SKIN CONDITION + HEALTH + NERVES - . pees LATHER = Gillette must do a different job for you each day —with a blade which does all of them superbly HE weather may be fair or foul, warm or freezing; the water may be hot or cold, hard or soft; your digestion, too, affects the comfort of your shave; so do your nerves —how well you slept, and how long you lather. There are at least forty different reasons why your Gillette Blade never gets precisely the same kind of shaving job to do twice. There is just one reason why you can always get a smooth, clean, comfortable shave under any conditions—the invincible, even-tempered smoothness of the Gillette Blade—the one con- stant thing about your daily shave. Gillette could safely make this statement in the To be eure of & smooth, com- fortable shave under any covdi+ tions, slip a fresh Gillette Blade in your razor. beginning when the daily output of blades was less than a hundred. We can make it now with far greater positiveness, when over two million perfectly honed and delicately stropped Gillette Blades leave the plant every day. For these blades are made by delicate machines adjusted to one ten-thousandth of an inch. Human skill could never hope for such accuracy. The blades receive most rigid inspection at every step. To make this possible, four out of every nine employees are skilled inspectors who actually receive a bonus for every blade they discard. When you slip your fresh Gillette Blade into your razor tomorrow morning, remember that it has a different job to do each day—and does it with comfortable smoothness. GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR CO., BOSTON, U.S. A comicbooks.com Gillette