Judge, 1928-06-23 · page 4 of 36
Judge — June 23, 1928 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Judge Magazine Page This page contains several unrelated satirical comics and jokes typical of Judge's format: 1. **"A Pint in His Favor, Maybe"** depicts a drunk man clinging to a hydrant, joking that he's "still sober" — satirizing alcohol consumption and public intoxication. 2. **"Defrauded Boarding-house Mistress"** shows a parachutist descending from a building, captioned as someone avoiding rent payment — a visual gag about evasion. 3. **"Height of Something"** references a 1938 lawsuit involving a Scotsman injured at a baseball game, with a pun about "keeping a popular myth up to date." 4. **The swimming pool scene** depicts I.R.T. (Interborough Rapid Transit, NYC's subway system) magnate throwing a crowded party, satirizing the contrast between wealth and working-class conditions during this period.
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JUDGE 0 “| Derravpen Boanptnc-ouse Misriess I'll ever rent toa parachute jumper! Height of Something A Scotchman recently sued a baseball com y because he was hurt while watching a ball game. He fell out of a tree. “1938—Keeping a popular myth up to date. The man who crosses his bridges before he gets to them de- pends too much on the road maps. That's the last room Mr. 1. R.T., the great subway magnate, throws a party in his private swimming pool. | A Pint in His Favor, Maybe | The souse party staggered to the hydrant, and holding on to keep his balance, again stared in- tently at the cab horse across the ‘he muttered with a dubious hiccough, “if that’s a merry-go-round, I'm still sober.” “Sweeping the cobwebs off of Any Time | can't get Ramona or » Clown, Laugh on your there's something wrong comicbooks.com