Comics, magazines and newspapers
193–240 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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Tick Tock Tales 010 (1946)
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Robin Hood 007
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Tick Tock Tales 011 (1946)
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Tick Tock Tales 020 (1947)
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DURANGO KID #12 (c2c)
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Tick Tock Tales 004 (1946)
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AVENGER #3 [A1#133]
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AVENGER #2
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Best of the West 03
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Tick Tock Tales 008 (1946)
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Ghost Rider 03 [A1#031] (31 of 36pgs)
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US Marines 008
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Tick Tock Tales 028 (1951 ME)
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Tim Holt 30
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US Marines 004
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Strong Man 001
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Jet Powers 01 [A1#030]
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Strange Suspense Stories v1 039
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BOBBY BENSON 001
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Brain 003
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US Marines 001
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Danl Boone 002
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Straight Arrow 036
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AVENGER #4
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Robin Hood 003 (v1 003)
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Robin Hood 006 (v1 006)
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Keen Teens 03
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Manhunt 005 (c2c)
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Keen Teens 01
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Tick Tock Tales 017 (1947)
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Best of the West 05 (c2c)
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Pictorial Love Stories 24
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Brain 006
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Ghost Rider 07 [A1#051]
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Best of the West 08 (c2c)
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BOBBY BENSON 014
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Lawbreakers Suspense Stories 015
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White Indian 15 [A1#135]
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Straight Arrow 044
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Danl Boone 001
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Best of the West 12 -c2c
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DURANGO KID #31
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The Killers 02 -fixed
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Lawbreakers Suspense Stories 010 c2c
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Manhunt 011 (Frazetta's Trail Colt only)-8gs
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Brain 004
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White Indian 13 [A1#104]
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