A complete, restored issue of Judge from 1887-04-30 — all 16 pages of color political cartoons and topical humor, free to page through at comicbooks.com.

On the cover: # Judge Magazine, April 30, 1887 This political cartoon satirizes Irish landlord exploitation. The figure on the left, bloated and labeled "POUNDS, SHILLINGS, AND PENCE," represents a wealthy landlord gorged on rental income from Irish tenants. The well-dressed man on the right appears to be an Irish landlord or politician, depicted as a vulture hovering over a basket of evicted tenants' possessions. The caption—"AN APPEAL TO A COUNTRY WITHOUT A SOUL ABOVE 2 s. d."—uses the abbreviation for shillings and pence to mock Irish landlords as motivated purely by profit, lacking moral conscience. The subtitle references "Non-Resident Irish Landlord," criticizing absentee landlords who extracted wealth from Ireland without reinvesting locally. This reflects 1880s Irish land reform debates and tenant suffering under exploitative rental systems.

🖼️ Every page has a plain-English note on what you’re looking at — the figures, the references, the point of the satire.

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