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College Humor (magazine)
lege publications and soon introduced new material, in-
cluding fiction. Contributors included Robert Benchley,
Heywood Broun, Groucho Marx, Ellis Parker Butler,
Katherine Brush, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzger-
ald.[1] Editor H.N. Swanson later became Fitzgerald’s Hol-
lywood agent.
The magazine featured cartoons by John Held Jr., Otto
Soglow and others.
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 pur-
chased by Ned Pines and turned into a girlie magazine.
Collegian Press, Inc. was the publisher in the early 1940s.
[2]
A competing magazine in 1933 was titled College Hu-
mor & Sense. That same year Paramount released the col-
lege campus musical, College Humor, with Bing Crosby,
Jack Oakie, George Burns and Gracie Allen.
References
[1] See Fitzgerald, F. Scott and Zelda. "The Girl with
Talent," College Humor, April 1930.
[2] Stephenson-Payne, Phil. Magazine Data File.
Cover of the September, 1925 issue.
External links
College Humor was a popular humor magazine from
the 1920s to the 1940s. Published monthly by Collegiate • Ellis Parker Butler
World Publishing, it began in 1920 with reprints from col-
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Categories:
• Defunct magazines of the United States
• College humor magazines
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