Comics, magazines and newspapers
1,921–1,968 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. |
|---|---|
| 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 Daily Register (Wheeling, W. Va.)
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Der Sonntagsbote (Milwaukee, Wis.)
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The Morning Journal-Courier (New Haven, Conn.)
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The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, Va.)
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The Parisian (Paris, Tenn.)
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The Arkansas Advocate (Little Rock, A.T. [Ark.])
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Martinsburgh Gazette (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.])
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The Massachusetts Spy, and Worcester County Advertiser ([Worcester, Mass.])
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Pokrok (Chicago, Ill.)
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The State Ledger (Topeka, Kan.)
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Die Bloomfield Germania (Bloomfield, Nebraska) 1???-1914
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The Muskogee Cimeter (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??
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The State Chronicle (Raleigh, N.C.)
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The State Republican (Jefferson City, Mo.)
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Edwardsville Spectator (Edwardsville, Ill.)
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El Heraldo De Brownsville (Brownsville, Tex.) 1934-19??
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The Grit-Advocate (Julesburg, Colo.)
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The Planters' Banner (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.)
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Daily Nashville Patriot (Nashville, Tenn.)
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Jerome News (Jerome, Yavapai County, Ariz.)
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Juliet Signal (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.; Joliet, Ill.) 1844-1???
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The Ketchikan Miner (Ketchikan, Alaska)
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Louisiana Capitolian (Baton Rouge, La.)
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The New Hampshire Gazette (Portsmouth, N.H.)
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New-York Tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
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Wisconsin Tribune (Mineral Point, Wis.)
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The Alaskan (Petersburg, Alaska)
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The Covington Leader (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-Current
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Eastern Times (Bath, Me.)
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Gazette of the United States and Daily Evening Advertiser (Philadelphia [Pa.])
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Jackson County Sentinel (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-Current
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The New Era ([Portsmouth, Va.])
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The Ripley Advertiser (Ripley, Miss.)
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Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.)
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The Arkansas Banner (Little Rock, Ark.)
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The Grand Haven News (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??
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The Phoenix Jewish News (Phoenix)
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Pointe Coupee Democrat (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.])
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The Spectator (Ozark, Franklin County, Ark.) 1917-Current
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The Caldwell Watchman (Columbia, La.)
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Ottumwa Weekly Courier (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa)
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The Rock Island Daily Argus (Rock Island, Ill.)
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Ashtabula Telegraph (Ashtabula, Ohio)
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Automotive News (Detroit, Mich.; Detroit, MI) 1938-Current
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The Daily Appeal (Carson City, Nev.)
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Nachrichten=herold (Sioux Falls, Süd-Dakota)
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Zgoda = Unity (Chicago, Illinois) 1914-Current
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