Press: Judge's Fun

I have started this magazine for fun. Money is no object; let sordid souls seek that. If money is forced upon me through the enterprise, I shall found a hospital or a free beanery with it.

So wrote Harry Hart in his first issue of Judge on Oct. 28, 1881. Founder Hart had plenty of fun with Judge, founded no beanery. He sold it to William J. Arkell who continued Judge's funmaking, bought Leslie's Weekly and published that too, finally selling both magazines in 1905. Since then Leslie's has been discontinued and a...