College Humor was an American humor magazine published from 1920 to 1943.
College Humor was published monthly by Collegiate World Publishing.[1] It began in 1920[2] with reprints from college publications and soon introduced new material, including fiction. The headquarters were in Chicago.[1]
Contributors included Carl Sandburg, Paul Rhymer, Walter Winchell, George Ade,[1] Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Groucho Marx, Ellis Parker Butler, Katharine Brush, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald.[3] 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,[1] Sam Berman, Ralph Fuller, John Held Jr., Otto Soglow and others.
The first editor was H. N. Swanson. After he resigned in 1932, managing editor Patricia Reilly took over.[4] The magazine's sports editor was Les Gage in 1930–31.
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.[5] The magazine was retitled College Humor & Sense for parts of 1933 and 1934.
The magazine ceased publication in Spring 1943.[5]