Puck #262
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn this striking 1882 satire, Puck #262—written, drawn, inked, and colored by Joseph Keppler—delivers a vivid allegory of corporate greed and judicial failure. The cover by Bernhard Gillam depicts a shipwrecked vessel, the Wrecked Corporation and Insurance Co. Bankrupt, stranded on rocks beside a lighthouse extinguished by the figures of Judge and Corruption, while desperate figures labeled "Policy Holder" and "Pillaged Policy Holder" struggle in the waves. A rope from ship to shore is tugged by a Receiver, a Lawyer, and a Shore Shark, coiled around a money bag marked "Fee," while another Lawyer reaches for a floating barrel labeled "Fees," underscoring a system rigged against the vulnerable.
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Shows a ship labelled Wrecked Corporation and Insurance Co. Bankrupt that has wrecked on rocks with a darkened lighthouse labelled Trust and Justice nearby. The light has been snuffed by Judge and Corruption. Victims of the wreck, some clinging to the ship, others in the water, are labelled Policy Holder and Pillaged Policy Holder. A rope from the ship to shore is held by a Receiver, a Lawyer, and a Shore Shark, and is coiled around a money bag labelled Fee. Another Lawyer, using a gaff, reaches for a barrel labelled Fees that bobs in the water near the ship.
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