Judge, 1935-10 · page 13 of 36
Judge — October 1935 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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# Judge Magazine "Camera Contest" Page Analysis This page presents satirical "camera contest" submissions mocking contemporary figures and events: **Top left**: A "Jamaica Rockaway" commuter with photography equipment—satirizing the Long Island Railroad's promotional giveaways. **Top right**: A hunter armed against bears, submitted by "Ira Buss"—a straightforward hunting joke. **Bottom left**: Depicts Mussolini at "mess" (dining), smuggled into the country "after terrific hardship"—mocking both Mussolini's fascist regime and contemporary concerns about foreign smuggling/espionage during the pre-WWII era. **Bottom right**: A portrait of "Professor Raymond Z.," a scientist who's perfected a deadly gas weapon for the coming war, with the joke that his formula uses air from NYC subway cars—dark satire about chemical weapons development and urban pollution circa the 1930s. The overall theme ridicules contemporary anxieties: militarism, fascism, weapons development, and industrial-age life.
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Judge Judge’s Camera FAMAICA ROCKAWAY forcibly. pr y be seen in the t nstrating the equipment that is Contest given away free with every commutation ticket during the coming winter months, CCESSFULLY smuggled into this country only after terrific hardship, the above dramatic snapshot shows Mussolini at "mess immediately after he had been asked by one of his of St. Regis Falls, sends in this of himself arraye new hunting that he plans to wear this season in order | ect himself from the danger of being shot ng Nimrods. AN arres ly informal portrait of Professor Ray- mond Z. eminent scientist, who S Just per- fected the ultimate in gas that will snuff out mil- lions of lives in the next war. It is reliably reported that the secret lies in his recently discovered formula for concentrating the air taken from New York City’s subway cars. comicbooks.com