Comics, magazines and newspapers
5,521–5,568 of 223,909, free to read, from the world's archives.
Where these come from, and who sees what
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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. |
Gold Seal Detective v01 n02 [1936-01]
Pluck And Luck #282 [1903-10-28]
Fantastic Adventures v02n08 (1940 10) (cape1736)
Spy Hunters 006 -fixed
Astounding British Ed. v07n06 (1950 10)
Astounding British Ed. v13n04 1957 04
Eerie 005
Chatterbox 1897
Pictorial Review v29 n10 [1928-07]
Popular Magazine v05 n04 1906-02.Street & Smith (LB-Darwin-IA)
Tomorrow On The March - A. E. van Vogt (Pacificon GOH speech, July 4, 1946) (Missing Page 01)
Weird Tales v38n04 (1945 03) (slpn)
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, April 1921
Texas Rangers August 1954
The Saturday Evening Post 1923-08-04: Vol 196 Iss 5
The Saturday Evening Post 1923-08-18: Vol 196 Iss 7
The Saturday Evening Post 1928-04-07: Vol 200 Iss 41
Galaxy v06n01 (1953-04.Galaxy)
Modern Mechanix v17n06 [1937-04]
The Crisis 1928-01: Vol 35 Iss 1
Startling Stories v16n03 (1948 01)
1952-05 Fifteen Western Tales v25n003
Blue Book v050 n04 [1930-02]
Blue Book v070 n02 [1939-12]
Midnight Mystery Stories v02n21 1923-01-13.Macfadden (Darwin-IA)
Astounding British edition August 1947
Astounding British edition June 1948
Fantastic Adventures v06n04 (1944 10) (cape1736)
Scientific American Volume 100 Number 03 (January 1909)
Astounding British Ed. v12n11 1956 11
Star Ranger 002 (1937)
Top-Notch Comics 21 (1941)
Thrilling Wonder Stories v42n02 (1953 06)
Beyond The End Of Time (Permabooks P145, 1952)
Punch Comics 01
Bedtime Blonde - John Wilstach (1950.Quarter Books 56) (Darwin-IA)
The New Movie 1934-04 Vol. 9, No. 4
Fantastic December 1957
Nick Carter ( Eichler) N 005 ( NCW 412)
Western Story 1937-01-23
The Saturday Evening Post 1923-08-11: Vol 196 Iss 6
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