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Once popular college humor magazines on decline, new exhibit shows off some of the greats (AP)

MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The college graduate, wearing the traditional cap and gown, sits on top of the world.

A closer look shows the world is actually a bomb and a lit fuse is coming out of one side.

The date on the cover is May 1939, more than two years before the United States entered World War II, but the University of Michigan Gargoyle humor magazine was clearly on to something.

Published near the end of what is considered the heyday of college humor magazines, that issue of Gargoyle is one of more than 1,000 recently donated to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from what may be the largest collection of its kind.