Comics, magazines and newspapers
817–864 of 4,692, 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. |
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| 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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The Washington Critic (Washington, D.C.)
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Wheeling Sunday Register (Wheeling, W. Va.)
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The Billings Gazette (Billings, Mont.)
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The Alliance Herald (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.)
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The Evening Critic (Washington, D.C.)
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The Mingo Republican (Williamson, W. Va.)
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The Democratic Leader (Cheyenne, Wyo.)
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The Ouachita Telegraph (Monroe, La.)
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The Warm Springs Mirror (Warm Springs, Ga.)
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The Ward County Independent (Minot, Ward County, N.D.)
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Polk County Observer (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.)
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The Daily Herald (New-Haven [Conn.])
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Narragansett Herald (Narragansett Pier, R.I.) 1877-1???
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The Wolf Point Herald (Wolf Point, Mont.)
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The Commonwealth (Greenwood, Miss.)
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The Daily Madisonian (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.])
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The Carbon Advocate (Lehighton, Pa.)
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The Lexington Dispatch (Lexington, South Carolina)
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The Omaha Morning Bee (Omaha [Neb.])
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The Newark Journal (Newark, Ark.)
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Semi-Weekly Herald (Durango, Colo.)
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Indian Chieftain (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.])
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Daily Arizona Silver Belt (Globe, Gila County, Ariz.)
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The Evening Tribune (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?
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The Northwest Enterprise (Seattle, Wash.)
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The Emporia News (Emporia, Kan.)
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Kodiak Mirror (Kodiak, Alaska)
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The Moorefield Examiner (Moorefield, W. Va.)
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Belding Banner (Belding, Mich.)
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The Durham Daily Globe (Durham, N.C.)
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Kansas City Journal (Kansas City, Mo.)
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Kentucky Gazette ([Lexington, Ky.])
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The Rice Belt Journal (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??
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The Elbert County Tribune (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.) 18??-1920
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Los Angeles Herald (Los Angeles [Calif.])
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La Voz Del Pueblo (Santa Fe, Nuevo México; Las Vegas, N.M.) 1889-192?
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The Clay City Times (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-Current
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The Nezperce Herald (Nezperce, Idaho)
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Elko Independent (Elko, Nev.) 1915-Current
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Morgan County Democrat (McConnelsville, Ohio)
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The Corpus Christi Caller (Corpus Christi, Tex.)
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The Jamesburg Record (Jamesburg, N.J.)
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The Virginia Enterprise (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??
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The Brookings Register (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.)
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The Laclede Blade (Laclede, Mo.)
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The Daily Record (Dunn, N.C.)
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St. Paul Tidende (St. Paul, Minn.)
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