Comics, magazines and newspapers
97–144 of 535, 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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Blue Book Magazine 1917-08
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Blue Book Magazine 1929-02
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Blue Book Magazine 1916-12
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Blue Book Magazine 1930-11
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Blue Book Magazine 1930-12
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Blue Book Magazine 1930-02
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Blue Book Magazine 1928-03
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PS Magazine Issue 002 July 1951
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Blue Book Magazine 1928-02
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PS Magazine Issue 001 June 1951
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Blue Book Magazine 1929-11
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Calling All Girls 031 v4 (1944)
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Calling All Girls 069 v8 (1948)
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AVENGER #1
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Calling All Girls 064 v7 (1960)
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Calling All Girls 060 v7 (1960)
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Pictorial Love Stories 22
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Pictorial Love Stories 26
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Calling All Girls 057 v7 (1947)
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The Killers 01 (1947)
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Jack Armstrong 001 (1947)
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Calling All Boys 006 (1946)
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Tick Tock Tales 029
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Calling All Boys 004 (1946)
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Best of the West 07
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Strange Suspense Stories 020
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Calling All Kids 022 (1948)
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Brain 001
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Jack Armstrong 002 (1947)
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Funnyman 005 (1948)
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Jack Armstrong 006 (1948)
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Strange Suspense Stories 021
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Strange Suspense Stories 036
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Straight Arrow 030
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Strange Suspense Stories 035
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Calling All Kids 001 (1945)
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Jack Armstrong 009 (1948)
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Calling All Boys 010 (1947)
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Ghost Rider 01 [A1#027](no ifc/ibc)-34 of 36pgs
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Calling All Boys 015 (1948
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Strange Suspense Stories 043
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Calling All Kids 018 (1948)
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Calling All Boys 011 (1947)
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Jack Armstrong 004 (1948)
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Strange Suspense Stories 018
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Pictoria Love Stories 23 1950
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Calling All Boys 016 (1948)
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