Comics, magazines and newspapers
5,137–5,184 of 223,909, 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. |
Western Story Magazine, Nov 25 1911
Adventure v018 n04 [1918-08-18]
Treasure Chest v14 013 (1959)
Manhunt v08 n01 1960-02.Flying Eagle (Darwin-IA)
The Saturday Evening Post 1923-11-10: Vol 196 Iss 19
The Saturday Evening Post 1929-08-03: Vol 202 Iss 5
Male v10 n12 [1960-12]
McCall's v053 n11 [1926-08]
Animal Comics 022
FATE v15 n12 dec 1962
Liberty v14 n31 [1937-07-31]
The Saturday Evening Post 1871-06-03: Iss 2601
Newspaper
Boletín Mercantil De Puerto Rico (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918
Newspaper