Comics, magazines and newspapers
4,993–5,040 of 196,631, 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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School-Day Romances 002 (1950) coverless
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Top-Notch Laugh Comics 41 (1943)
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[EEMF-218] Law Space (1960) Vivisección
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The New Movie 1932-10 Vol. 6, No. 4
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The New Movie 1933-10 Vol. 8, No. 4
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The Saturday Evening Post 1929-10-12: Vol 202 Iss 15
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Wonder Stories Quarterly v03n03 (1932 Spring)
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Adventure v119 n04 [1948-08]
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Weird Tales v45n03 (1953 07) (sas)
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Unknown v01n02 (1939 04) (SLiV)
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Startling Stories v28n02 (1952-12.Better)
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Spy Hunters 004 -fixed
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Blue Book v048 n05 [1929-03]
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Rob Roy Library No. 01 [1903-11-03] ("Rob Roy's Escape" by Angus Maclean) (-ibc, bc)
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Galaxy Science Fiction Novel #18 Edmond Hamilton City at World's End (1953)
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Venture v01n01 (1957 01) (Gorgon776)
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Beware Terror Tales (Fawcett Comics) Issue 004
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Black Magic 005 (v01 05)
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Western Story 1940-03-02
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The Saturday Evening Post 1920-01-31: Vol 192 Iss 31
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Weird Tales v33n02 (1939 02) (missing ifc) (slpn)
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The Golden Argosy v01n18 [1883-04-07] (Color)
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Popular Western v20 n01 [1941-01]
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Western Story v211 n05 [1944-09]
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Planet Stories v01n11 [1942 Su] (sas)
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Ester with Mother goose 4C 172
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Weird Tales v34n06 (1939 12) ( ifc) (slpn)
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Harper's Weekly 1859-11-05: Vol 3 Iss 149
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Punch Comics 13
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Famous Fantastic Mysteries v03 n01 [1941 04.Munsey] (cape1736 edit)
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Chatterbox 1893
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Popular Detective v23 n03 [1942-10]
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Popular Magazine v081 n03 [1926-08-20]
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The Saturday Evening Post 1914-01-03: Vol 186 Iss 27
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The Saturday Evening Post 1923-09-15: Vol 196 Iss 11
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The Saturday Evening Post 1929-04-13: Vol 201 Iss 41
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Avon Fantasy Reader 17 Cape 1736
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All True Romance 007
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Ghost Rider 01 [A1#027](no ifc/ibc)-34 of 36pgs
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Detective Tales v42 n04 [1949-07]
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Everybodys Magazine v51 n02 [1924-08]
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Torchy 001
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Unknown v05n03 (1941 10) (PDF) (unz.org)
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The Illustrated London News 1874-10-17: Vol 65 Iss 1834
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Air Stories (UK) v06 n02 [1938-02]
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine v012 n060 [1948-11]
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Weird Tales v17n04 (1931 07) (sas). ( bc, ibc)
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