Judge, 1933-01 · page 8 of 36
Judge — January 1933 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis of Judge Page This page contains two cartoons satirizing Depression-era commercialism and entrepreneurship. **Top cartoon**: Two men wearing sandwich boards advertise competing cheap eateries—"Deane's Bean Palace" (15¢ all-you-can-eat) and "Feed Bag" (soup for 5¢). The humor lies in their competitive boasting ("I've got a stove in mine"), mocking how desperate Depression entrepreneurs oversold minimal offerings. **Bottom cartoon**: Men use Christmas cigars to create a smoke screen, apparently to hide from someone or something. The joke appears to reference using cheap merchandise as deception—"just the thing to lay a smoke screen"—satirizing how inferior holiday goods were marketed to unsuspecting consumers. Both cartoons mock working-class struggles and dubious commercial practices during economically desperate times.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
| DEANE’s BEAN PALACE \ eos \ Aue you CAN EAT FOR \3¢ OPEN FROM IZ AM TO 12 AM Wey! HEY! DINE AT THE FEED BAG soup - --5# THE KIND A\ MOTHER USE ‘TO OPEN “Boy! These Christmas cigars are just the thing to lay a smoke screen!” comicbooks.com