College Humor was an American humor magazine published from 1920 to 1943.

History

College Humor was published monthly by Collegiate World Publishing. It began in 1920 with reprints from college publications and soon introduced new material, including fiction. The headquarters were in Chicago.

Personnel

Contributors

Contributors included Carl Sandburg, Paul Rhymer, Walter Winchell, George Ade, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Groucho Marx, Ellis Parker Butler, Katharine Brush, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald. Editor H.N. Swanson later became Fitzgerald's Hollywood agent. The magazine featured cartoons by Johnny Gruelle, James Montgomery Flagg, Franklin Booth, John T. McCutcheon, Sam Berman, Ralph Fuller, John Held Jr., Otto Soglow and others.

Staff

The first editor was H. N. Swanson. After he resigned in 1932, managing editor Patricia Reilly took over. The magazine's sports editor was Les Gage in 1930–31.

1930s–40s

The cover price in 1930 was 35 cents (for 130 pages of content). Dell Publishing acquired the title for a run that began in November, 1934. In the late 1930s, it was purchased by Ned Pines and turned into a girlie magazine. Collegian Press, Inc. was the publisher in the early 1940s. The magazine was retitled College Humor & Sense for parts of 1933 and 1934. The magazine ceased publication in Spring 1943.

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