Comics, magazines and newspapers
2,497–2,544 of 223,958, 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. |
Cavalcade 1955-09
Astounding v52n03 (1953 11) (Bitman)
Weird Tales v06n05 [1925 11] (sas)
Jungle Stories Winter 1952
Amazing Stories v05n05 1930 08 Teck
The Crisis 1916-03: Vol 11 Iss 5
Hot Dog: Regular Fellows Monthly, Dec. 1921
Popular Detective v36 n03 [1949-05]
Bill Barnes Air Trails v05n05 [1936-02]
Space Adventures 23
Astounding v33n02 (1944 04) (Sam Hall) (v1.2)
Weird Tales v45n06 (1954 01)
Blue Book v049 n03 [1929-07]
The American Magazine v072 n06 [1911-10]
Amazing Stories v14n01 1940 01 cape1736
Argosy v130n03 [1921-02-05] (-ifc, ads, toc, ibc, bc) [beb]-rev2
Galaxy v21n03 (1963 02)
Planet Stories v06 n08 [1954-Fall]
Amazing Stories v05n04 1930 07 052
Popular Detective v30 n01 [1945-12]
The Wide World (US) v45n267 [1920-07] {jvh-EXciter}
Amazing Stories v33n05 (1959 05) (cape1736)
New Detective v06 n02 [1945-01]
Amazing Stories v26n03 (1952 03) (EPM)
Astounding v20n05 (1938 01) (cape1736)
Vandals of the Void (1953.Winston) -Jack Vance
Newspaper