Judge, 1929-01-19 · page 2 of 36
Judge — January 19, 1929 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Dr. Judge Advertisement This page is primarily a **promotional advertisement** for "Judge" magazine itself, personified as "Dr. Judge"—a benevolent physician figure who treats society's ailments through humor and satire. The poem celebrates satirical comedy as therapeutic medicine: laughter heals "humanity's diseases." Dr. Judge is portrayed as a "kindly" healer whose "joyous jokes and paragraphs" serve as "nurses," and whose "jolly, frivolity and verses" restore mental and physical health to both the sick and the psychologically burdened. The bottom section includes a **subscription offer** for different visit packages (104, 52, or 20 weekly visits at varying prices), treating magazine subscriptions as medical treatments. The cartoons show Dr. Judge in clinical settings, reinforcing the metaphor of satire-as-medicine—a common early-20th-century marketing conceit for humor publications.
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ob Af) V\ Therapeutic laughter is a remedy that pleases. Laughter is a healer of humanity's diseases. hter, born of merriment and mirth-provoking wheezes, Steps us up and peps us up As through this life we trudge. Would you spurn your liniment or lenitive or lotion? Would you smash the bottle with your evil-tasting potion? Would you quaff a tonic like a voyage on the ocean? What you is in the pack Of good old Doctor Judge! Dr. Judge, the kindly, is no surgeon or trepanner. the healer, is a very subtle planner. Dr. Judge, the merry, has a magic Bedside Manner— One that takes a grouch and makes Him happy, hale and whole. Dr. Judge's medicine all dolefulness disperses. Joyous jokes and paragraphs are Dr. Judge's nurses. Dr. Judge's jollity, frivolity and verses Heal the sick and double quick Restore the saddened soul! Dr, Judge's treatments aren't only for the ailing. People who are happy, and who find life easy sailing, Dr. Judge's visits with hilarity are hailing, For the Doe is quick to bloc A growing grouch or grudge. Though you are a person with no secret inhibition, Mentally and otherwise in excellent condition, Though you have the lightest and the brightest disposition- To be sure it will endure Secure old Dr. Judge! Judge Publishing Co., Inc., 627 West 43rd Street, New York, N. Y. Dear Doctor Judge I want to be sunny, I want to be gay, I want to stay funny and merry all day. So, magic con- cocter of whter and jest, I make you my doctor—come on, do your best! 104 Regular weekly visits (2 years) $7.80 52 Regular weekly visits (1 year )..... 5.00 20 Special weekly visits... Address... City... : ++. State comicbooks.com