Judge (magazine)

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1906 cover of Judge magazine, cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt by Eugene Zimmerman

Judge was a weekly magazine published in the United States of America between 1881 and 1947. It was formed in 1881 by artists who had seceded from Puck Magazine. The founders included:

• James Albert Wales, a cartoonist
• Frank Tousey, publisher of dime novels
• George H. Jessop, an author

The first printing of Judge was in October 29, during the great depression 1881. It was sixteen pages long and printed on quarto paper. While it did well initially, it soon had trouble competing with its rival, Puck.^[1]. By the 1900s, the magazine had become successful, reaching a circulation of 100,000 by 1912.

Edward Anthony was an editor in the early 1920s. Anthony was later co-author of Frank Buck's first two books, Bring 'Em Back Alive and Wild Cargo.

Harold Ross was an editor of Judge between April 5 and August 2, 1924. He used the experience on the magazine to start his own in 1925, The New Yorker.^[2] The success of the New Yorker as well as the depression put a lot of pressure on the magazine. It became a monthly magazine in 1932 and ceased circulation in 1947.

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