Comics, magazines and newspapers
193–240 of 3,452, 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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Straight Arrow 027
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Straight Arrow 052
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Straight Arrow 023
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Strange Adventures v01n02 (1947 02)
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Straight Arrow 009
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Straight Arrow 006
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Straight Arrow 024
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Straight Arrow 053
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Straight Arrow 032
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Straight Arrow 012
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Straight Arrow 003
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Straight Arrow 042
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Straight Arrow 008
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The Strand Magazine, No. 7
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The Strand Vol. 5 – 1893
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Straight Arrow 031
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Straight Arrow 020
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Eric of the Strong Heart, by Victor Rousseau, 1918
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Straight Arrow 022
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Straight Arrow 010
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Straight Arrow 013
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Straight Arrow 016
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Straight Arrow 047
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Straight Arrow 005
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Straight Arrow 007
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Straight Arrow 049
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Wild West Weekly v119 n05 (1938-05-21.Street & Smith) (missing front covers) (Darwin-IA))
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Silver Streak Comics 017 b
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Strong Man 003 [A1#134]
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Silver Streak Comics 019
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Forest and Stream 1893-05-25: Vol 40 Iss 21
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Straight Arrow 021
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Silver Streak Comics 020
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Stars and Stripes 006 (Aman added)-35 of 68pgs
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Stars and Stripes 006 (inc)(diff ver)
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Straight Arrow 015
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The Strand Magazine, No. 102
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The Strand Vol. 14 – 1897
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Fawcett Comics: Strange Suspense Stories 002
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The Strand Magazine, No. 38
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The Strand Magazine, No. 99
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The Strand Magazine, No. 97
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The Strand Magazine, No. 100
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The Strand Magazine, No. 101
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The Strand Magazine, No. 98
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The Strand Vol. 1 – 1891
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The Strand Vol. 7 – 1894
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