Comics, magazines and newspapers
145–192 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 Anaconda Standard (Anaconda, Mont.)
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Atlanta Georgian (Atlanta, Ga.)
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The Wheeling Intelligencer (Wheeling, W. Va.)
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The Dallas Daily Herald (Dallas, Tex.)
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Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)
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The Richmond Virginian (Richmond, Va.)
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The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-Current
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The Daily Telegram (Clarksburg, W. Va.)
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Daily Republican ([Wilmington, Del.])
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The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-Current
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Sacramento Daily Record-Union (Sacramento [Calif.])
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, Ky.)
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The Daily Worker (Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.)
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Wood River Times (Hailey, Idaho)
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Edgefield Advertiser (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-Current
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El Paso Herald (El Paso, Tex.)
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Shepherdstown Register (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.])
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New Orleans Daily Crescent ([New Orleans, La.])
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The Watchman and Southron (Sumter, S.C.)
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Washingtoner Journal (Washington [D.C.])
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The Saint Paul Globe (St. Paul, Minn.)
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The Evansville Daily Journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])
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Seward Daily Gateway (Seward, Alaska)
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The Jasper Weekly Courier (Jasper, Ind.)
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Chicago Daily Tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
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Virginia Free Press (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.])
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Vermont Phœnix (Brattleboro, Vt.)
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The Elkins Inter-Mountain (Elkins, W. Va.)
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The Manitowoc Pilot (Manitowoc, Wis.)
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Peninsula Enterprise (Accomac, Va.)
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The Midland Journal (Rising Sun, Md.)
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Washington Standard (Olympia, Wash. Territory)
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The Wilmington Daily Republican (Wilmington, Del.)
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The Brunswick News (Brunswick, Ga.; [Brunswick, Georgia?])
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The Manchester Journal (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-Current
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Spirit of Jefferson (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.])
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The New Haven Union (New Haven, Conn.) 1895-192?
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Wood County Reporter (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.)
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The Abbeville Press and Banner (Abbeville, S.C.)
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The Daily Phoenix (Columbia, S.C.)
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The Morning Astorian (Astoria, Oregon)
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The Fairmont West Virginian (Fairmont, W. Va.)
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The Lakeland Evening Telegram (Lakeland, Fla.)
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The Democratic Advocate (Westminster, Md.)
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La Prensa (San Antonio, Tex.)
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Daily Yellowstone Journal (Miles City, Mont.)
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The Redwood Gazette (Redwood Falls, Minn.)
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