Comics, magazines and newspapers
193–240 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 Record-Union (Sacramento, Calif.)
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Tulsa Daily World (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.])
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Honolulu Star-Bulletin (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-Current
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Lancaster Daily Intelligencer (Lancaster, Pa.)
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Shenandoah Herald (Woodstock, Va.)
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Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, Va.) 1914-Current
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The Bossier Banner (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.)
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The Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
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The Independent (Honolulu, H.I.)
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The Brownsville Daily Herald (Brownsville, Tex.)
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The Sauk Centre Herald (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-Current
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The Harlem News (Harlem, Mont.) 1908-Current
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The Daily Gazette (Wilmington, Del.)
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The Republican Journal (Belfast, Me.) 1829-Current
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Der Nordstern (St. Cloud, Minn.)
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River Falls Journal (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.)
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Der Morgen Zshurnal, Yidishes Ṭageblaṭ = the Jewish Morning Journal and the Jewish Daily News (New York, N.Y.)
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The Scranton Tribune (Scranton, Pa.)
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Mineral Point Tribune (Mineral Point, Wis.)
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The Spokane Press (Spokane, Wash.)
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The Savannah Tribune (Savannah [Ga.]; Savannah, Ga.)
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The Log Cabin Democrat (Conway, Ark.) 1908-Current
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The Bridgeport Evening Farmer (Bridgeport, Conn.)
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The Lambertville Record (Lambertville, N.J.)
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Santa Fe Daily New Mexican (Santa Fe, N.M.)
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The New Hampshire Gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.])
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The Public Ledger (Maysville, Ky.)
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Press and Daily Dakotaian (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.])
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The Evening Herald (Albuquerque, N.M.)
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The Evening Herald (Shenandoah, Pa.)
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The Daily Missoulian (Missoula, Mont.)
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Nashville Union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)
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The Monmouth Inquirer (Freehold, N.J.)
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Perrysburg Journal (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965
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Bryan Morning Eagle (Bryan, Tex.)
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Orleans County Monitor (Barton, Vt.)
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Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia [Pa.])
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The Charleston Daily News (Charleston, S.C.)
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The Anderson Intelligencer (Anderson Court House, S.C.)
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Litchfield Enquirer (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-Current
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Evening Capital and Maryland Gazette (Annapolis, Md.)
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The Rock Island Argus (Rock Island, Ill.)
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian (St. Johnsbury, Vt.)
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Catoctin Clarion (Mechanicstown, Md.)
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Phenix Gazette (Alexandria [D.C.])
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Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt (Cincinnati [Ohio])
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