College Humor Magazine
College Humor was an American humor magazine published from 1920 to 1943 by Collegiate World Publishing. It began with reprints from college publications and soon introduced new material, including fiction. Contributors included Carl Sandburg, Walter Winchell, George Ade, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald. The magazine featured cartoon by Johnny Gruelle, James Montgomery Flagg, John T. McCutcheon, Sam Berman, John Held Jr., Otto Soglow.
1930s
“I guess I’m all right all of a sudden!” (Apr. 1938)
“My partner wants a raise or he won’t go on!” (Apr. 1938)
“But I could have sworn it was a strike.” (July 1934)
[Shadow-Boxing] (Dec 1936)
(May 1937)
(May 1937)
"Have you an appointment?"
(May 1937)
"I thought I gave you a quarter for the movies!"
(Aug 1937)
"Excuse me, please, but my wife is drowning."
(July 1937)
"My God! I just remembered — we have met before!"
(July 1937)
“If I were you, Madam, I’d take him to Hollywood!”
(Aug 1937)
“He’s a big fellow, that Hogan. Isn’t he?”
(Aug 1937)
August, 1937
“I want to report a masher!”
(Sep, 1937)
“Heads, it’s ‘yes’ — tails, it’s ‘no’!”
(Sep. 1937)
“Cheese it — papa!”
(Sep. 1937)
“Are you expecting somebody?”
(Sep. 1937)
“Throw me out Louis — I’m sick of this place!”
(Sep. 1937)
“You know who sent me!”
(Sep. 1937)
“Believe it or not, you’re a father!”
(Oct. 1937)
"I was rushing, madam!"
(Sep. 1938)
“Did I keep you waiting?”
(Sep 1938)
"I wish someone would take her out so we could be alone!”
(Feb. 1938)
"I'm sorry. I never talk to strangers.”
(Mar. 1939)
"My friend wants one also, but he's too proud to ask.”
(Mar. 1939)
"The gentleman says it's important, Miss.”
(Mar. 1939)
1940s
“Bernard, you’ve been neglecting me lately.” (Mar. 1940)
“Will someone fetch me a glass of water?I’m parched.” (Jan 1940)
“Goodness! Is it a minute already?” (Jan. 1940)
(Jan. 1940)
“Morton!” (Jul. 1942)
“Married to an Angel” (July 1942)
1. Jeanette is a steno in a Budapest bank, but no one—including her boss—ever looks at her!
2. Neither would you, if you were the boss (Nelson) and saw what a nifty secretary the guy’s got!
3. In fact, Nelson likes loads of nifties and…
4. …And is quite a problem to the gray beards who run the bank. (right now he’s got his mind on plans for his birthday ball)…
5. (… to which everybody who’s anybody in Budapest has been invited—including poor steno Jeanette. The nitty secretary (hiss) has asked her along for gaffs, suggesting she come as an angel.)
6. Maybe Jeanette should stood in bed. That’s Nelson scramming over there on the right. Oh, well, she’ll be a better looking angel in a few minutes, now.
7. While the ball is still going full blast, Nelson takes a snooze in a side room and dreams of a real angel. (Hey, Nelson, where d’ya get those dreams?)
8. One look at this angel (Did I tell you? It’s Jeanette again. But this time the real MacDonald) and Nelson’s Eddy-tude changes. The heck with the wild life; he’s gonna settle down.
9. So, to coin a movie title, he marries an angel. (Wonder if the draft board accepts angels as dependents.) And then the fun begins!
10. What fun? Listen, buddy, maybe you don’t know what it’s like being married to an angel…
11. “Ask me—I married one, too!”
Covers
July, 1940
January, 1937
1941, Spring Issue, V14