Comics, magazines and newspapers
1,825–1,872 of 4,692, 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. |
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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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Alexandria Gazette & Advertiser (Alexandria [D.C.])
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Anadarko Daily Democrat (Anadarko, Okla.) 1901-190?
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Dresden Enterprise and Sharon Tribune (Dresden, Tenn.)
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The Jeffersonian Democrat (Chardon, Ohio)
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The Socorro Chieftain (Socorro, N.M.)
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Lincoln County Times (Jerome, Idaho)
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The Nenana News (Nenana, Alaska)
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The Arizona Champion (Peach Springs, Mohave County, A.T. [Ariz.])
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The Carbon County News (Red Lodge, Mont.)
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Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg General Advertiser (Bloomsburg, Pa.)
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The Daily Express (Dayton, Ohio)
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Lander Evening Post (Lander, Wyo.)
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The Lubbock Avalanche (Lubbock, Tex.)
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The Parker Post (Parker, Ariz.)
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The Davenport Gazette (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?
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The Pulaskian (Pulaski Heights [Little Rock], Ark.)
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Belen News (Belen, N.M.)
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The Findlay Jeffersonian (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio)
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The Kansas City Sun (Kansas City, Mo.)
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The Star and Newark Advertiser (Newark, N.J.)
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The Sumter Banner (Sumterville, S.C.)
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The Daytona Gazette-News (Daytona, Fla.)
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Hawaii Holomua = Progress (Honolulu)
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The Mathews Journal (Mathews C.H. [Court House])
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Mrs. Grundy (Tracy City, Tenn.)
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Toveritar (Astoria, Or.) 19??-1930
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The Wilson Times (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??
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Cooper's Clarksburg Register (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.])
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The Daily Commonwealth (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.)
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The Daily Confederate (Raleigh, N.C.)
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East Saginaw Courier (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??
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Jeffersonian-Plaindealer (Philippi, W. Va.)
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New Oregon Plaindealer (New Oregon, Iowa)
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Herald of the Times (Newport, R.I.)
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Hill's New-Hampshire Patriot (Concord, N.H.)
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The Climax (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.)
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The Herald (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.])
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The Marlboro Democrat (Bennettsville, S.C.)
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The Sun (Vanceburg, Ky.)
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Civilian & Telegraph (Cumberland, Md.)
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The Dillon Tribune (Dillon, Mont.)
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Meigs County Telegraph (Pomeroy [Ohio])
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The Pageland Journal (Pageland, S.C.)
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The Denver Jewish News (Denver, Colo.)
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The Nebraska Independent (Lincoln, Nebraska)
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The Portland Gazette (Portland, Me.)
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Weekly Chillicothe Crisis (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??
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