Comics, magazines and newspapers
4,849–4,896 of 196,581, free to read, from the world's archives.
Where these come from, and who sees what
Every page is shown from the archive that keeps it: the Internet Archive, Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and, where this server is set up for them, Europeana and Trove. Nothing is copied to this site. Each work's page names its archive, links to the work there, and states its licence or status as the archive does.
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. |
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Screenland, May 1923
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Frank Reade Library v01n13 [1892-12-17]
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Sweetheart Stories 316 1942-08.Dell (D&M-IA)
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Unknown v05n01 (1941 06) (PDF) (unz.org)
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Cowboy Western 057 c2c
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Crack Comics 022
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Punch Comics 23
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Weird Thrillers 002 JVJon
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Ace Double F-172
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The Saturday Evening Post 1920-03-20: Vol 192 Iss 38
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The Saturday Evening Post 1923-03-24: Vol 195 Iss 39
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The Saturday Evening Post 1925-04-04: Vol 197 Iss 40
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Lawbreakers 09 (1952)
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Scoop Comics 008
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Soldiers of Fortune 001
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Cavalcade 1955-01
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Famous Fantastic Mysteries A Portfolio of Illustrations by Virgil Finlay (1942) (FIXED)
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Astounding British Ed. v01n03 (1939 10)
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Weird Tales v38n05 (1945 05) (ifc,ibc,bc from unz.org) (slpn)
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Fantastic Adventures v01n03 (1939 09) (ufikus DPP)
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Satellite v01n02 (1956 12) (cape1736)
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Indian Stories, Winter 1950
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Argosy v186 n05 [1927-06-04]
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Liberty v18 n22 [1941-05-31]
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Fantastic Adventures v09n02 (1947 03)
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Chatterbox 1877
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Lil Genius 006 (1955)
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Monty Hall 003 (1951) (Toby Press)
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Top-Notch Laugh Comics 37 (1943)
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Red Rabbit 05
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Blue Book v059 n04 [1934-08]
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Top-Notch v016 n05 [1914-05-20]
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[Detective-6] Vic Peterson (1952) El caso del viudo alegre
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The New Movie 1931-06 Vol. 3, No. 6
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La Guerre Infernale N 21 (1908 06 14)
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The Saturday Evening Post 1912-01-06: Vol 184 Iss 28
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The Saturday Evening Post 1923-11-03: Vol 196 Iss 18
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Astounding British edition September 1946
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Astounding British edition January 1947
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Weird Tales v42 n03 [1950-03]
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Weird Tales v44n05 [1952 07] (sas)
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Strange Stories v01n02 (1939-04.Better) c2c (ufikus-DPP)
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Forbidden Worlds 031
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Beware Terror Tales (Fawcett Comics) Issue 003
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Calling All Boys 010 (1947)
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Funny Picture Stories v1 001 (1936) (Clock only)
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Pep Comics 65
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