Comics, magazines and newspapers
4,801–4,848 of 201,406, free to read, from the world's archives.
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Comics and magazines carry no age ratings, and Golden Age comics and the pulps are full of horror, crime, violence and racist caricature, so each work is placed cautiously from what its archive says about it. Erotica is left out altogether.
| Little Ones | Funny-animal comics and nursery magazines. |
|---|---|
| Kids | Comics and magazines made for children, such as St. Nicholas and Child Life, unless they deal with ghosts, monsters, spies or fights. |
| Tweens | Humour and teen comics, science, computing, sport and hobby magazines, true stories and education. |
| Teens | Everything else, including the pulps and anything we cannot tell about; horror, crime, war, westerns, superheroes and romance go no lower; every newspaper, since historic papers carry graphic reports and racist content. |
| Adult | Works with racist caricature (named, or a series known for it, such as The Spirit's Ebony White), wartime comics of 1941–1946 and jungle comics, which commonly carried it, each with a note saying so; the true-crime magazines and the "weird menace" pulps; sexual themes and gore. |
Air Wonder Stories, Dec 1929
Ester with Mother goose 4C 114
Eerie 011
Planet Stories v02n09 (1944 Wi) (sas)
The Modern Boy v01n014 [1928-05-12] {minotaur}
[CFC-6] Philip K. Dick (1960) Planetas morales
[M-13] Enid Blyton (1956) Misterio del fugitivo
The Saturday Evening Post 1924-06-07: Vol 196 Iss 49
The Saturday Evening Post 1924-10-18: Vol 197 Iss 16
Forbidden Worlds 062
Out of the Night 001
Wonder Stories Quarterly v03n02 (1932 Winter) (cape1736)
Argosy v156n02 (1923-12-01.Munsey) (ufikus-DPP)
Avon Science Fiction And Fantasy Reader v01n01 (1953 01)
McCall's v083 n09 [1956-06]
Adventure v107 n04 [1942-08]
Popular Magazine v087 n01 [1927-11-19]
Weird Tales v45n02 (1953 05) [LPM AT]
The New Movie 1932-02 Vol. 5, No. 2
Argosy V 146 N 04 1922 10 21
The Saturday Evening Post 1922-10-21: Vol 195 Iss 17
All-Story Weekly v106 n03 [1920-01-31]
Avon Science Fiction Reader 002 cape1736
The Tatler, Nov. 1919
Treasure Chest v10 016 (1955)
Weird Tales v34n04 (1939 10) ( ibc) (slpn)
Fantastic v07n05 [1958-05]
Thrilling Wonder Stories v32n02 (1948 06)
The Red Raven Library #21 [1905-06-03]
Blue Ribbon Western v10n05 [1948-06] [JT]
Thrilling Wonder Stories v31n01 (1947 10)
Astounding v05n03 (1931 03) (pulpmaniacal Gorgon776 edit) (fiche)
Blue Book v054 n03 [1932-01]
Dime Western v06 n04 [1934-10-01]
Saturday Evening Post 1834-07-26: Vol 13 Iss 679
The Saturday Evening Post 1919-05-17: Vol 191 Iss 46
The Saturday Evening Post 1925-01-31: Vol 197 Iss 31
The Saturday Evening Post 1929-01-05: Vol 201 Iss 27
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