College Humor (magazine)

College Humor was published monthly by Collegiate World Publishing.^[2] It began in 1920^[3] with reprints from college publications and soon introduced new material, including fiction. The headquarters were in Chicago.^[2]

Contributors included Carl Sandburg, Paul Rhymer, Walter Winchell, George Ade,^[2] Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Groucho Marx, Ellis Parker Butler, Katharine Brush, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald.^[4] 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,^[2] Sam Berman, Ralph Fuller, John Held Jr., Otto Soglow and others.

The first editor was H. N. Swanson. After he resigned in 1932, to become story editor of RKO,^[5] managing editor Patricia Reilly took over.^[6] 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.^[7] The magazine was retitled College Humor & Sense for parts of 1933 and 1934.

The magazine ceased publication in Spring 1943.^[7]