College Humor (magazine)

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Cover of the September, 1925 issue.

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

History[]

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]

Personnel[]

Contributors[]

Contributors included 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 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.[4]

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.[5] The magazine was retitled College Humor & Sense for parts of 1933 and 1934. In 1933, Paramount released the college campus musical College Humor with Bing Crosby, Jack Oakie, George Burns and Gracie Allen. College Humor ceased publication in Spring 1943.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Patricia Hall. Raggedy Ann and Johnny Gruelle: A Bibliography of Published Works. Pelican Publishing. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-4556-1084-6. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  2. ^ John T. Hetherington (16 April 2014). Vic and Sade on the Radio: A Cultural History of Paul Rhymer's Daytime Series, 1932-1944. McFarland. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-7864-6303-9. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  3. ^ See Fitzgerald, F. Scott and Zelda. "The Girl with Talent," College Humor, April 1930.
  4. ^ M. W. Childs, "She Gave Up 'Serious Thinking' and Became an Editor," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 4, 1932.
  5. ^ a b "Magazine Issues. College Humor". Magazine Data File. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
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