Judge, 1935-06 · page 7 of 37
Judge — June 1935 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine Page Analysis This page contains three separate satirical pieces: 1. **"Physical Wreck"**: Mocks Joe Smith, a robust man becoming a "physical wreck" due to heavy drinking and nightlife, unable to maintain an early morning health/exercise radio program on Station WPDQ. The cartoon shows him disheveled among club-goers. 2. **"Lullaby"**: Notes the absence of popular nursery-rhyme songs, listing famous ones like "Fifty Baby Fingers" and "Molly and Me"—this appears to be light social commentary on cultural trends. 3. **"Questions About the New Moscow Subway"**: Satirizes Soviet infrastructure through absurdist questions about Russian trains, suggesting Western skepticism about Soviet technological claims during the Cold War era. The cartoons reflect 1930s-40s American attitudes toward alcohol, radio culture, and anti-Soviet sentiment.
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Judge Physical Wreck MITH’S job is getting him down. He’s taken to drinking heavily and other forms of dissipation. Everybody it's a shame. Big, broad-shouldered, — barrel-chested — Joe Smith on the toboggan! He’s becoming a physical wreck. It’s his job. He can't keep up the pace. Night after night he sits alone at his table in the gayest clubs, drinking and brooding. Yes, sir, Joe Smith's job is getting him down. You see, he just can’t wake up in the morning, s ays up all night to conduct his Early Exercise and Health program over Station WPDQ. “What are all those statues in the € not statues—they’re RA Lullaby HAT, no popular songs the famous quintuplets ? Something like Fifty Baby Fingers and Fifty Baby Toes. Or, Go To Sleep, My Babies, the Whole Darned Bunch of You. Or, Rock- abye Babies, on the Tree Top. Molly and Me, and Babies Make Eight. Or, That Old Gang of Mine. yet about “I’m sorry, but I was fired yesterday.” “We can’t get anything straight on this set—not even the True Story hour.” Questions About the New Moscow Subway O THE guards call out the stations in Russian or do they only sound that way? How many slugs equal one rouole? Are the trains equipped with doors that open auto- matically when whiskers get caught in them? And which would a hurried Muscovite prefer, to miss his train or his whiskers? Are all comrades equally entitled to seats? What's the difference between the Mos- cow subway and a Bronx Park local? And in the signal system, is red the sign of danger? Short Story May, flowers. June, wed- ding. July, fireworks. comicbooks.com