Comics, magazines and newspapers
6,625–6,672 of 201,399, 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. |
The Saturday Evening Post 1930-06-07: Vol 202 Iss 49
Fantastic Adventures v12n10 (1950 10)
Startling Stories v26n03 (1952 07)
The Collector's Miscellany, New Series No. 21 [January to July 1938]
Scientific American Volume 95 Number 21 (November 1906)
Adventure v123 n06 [1950-10]
Chatterbox 1891
Wild Boy 011 (#2)
Avon Fantasy Reader 14 (1950)
Fantastic Novels v03n05 1950-01.Popular)
Strange Stories v03n02 [1940 04] (sas)
Cookie 018
Newspaper