Comics, magazines and newspapers
2,497–2,544 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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Indiana State Sentinel (Indianapolis, Ind.)
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North Iowa Times (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-Current
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Ohio Staats-Bote (Canton, Stark County, Ohio)
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The Herald (New York [N.Y.])
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The State-Line Herald (North Lemmon, Adams County, N.D.)
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The Weekly Butte Record (Oroville [Calif.])
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Woodville Republican (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-Current
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The Bemidji Pioneer (Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minn.)
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Whig and Tribune (Jackson, Tenn.)
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Daily Gazette (Las Vegas, N.M.)
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The Minidoka Irrigator (Hunt, Idaho)
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The Pickens Sentinel-Journal (Pickens, S.C.)
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Rural Retreat Times (Rural Retreat, Va.)
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The Sunday Morning News (Jersey City [N.J.])
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The Daily Mountaineer (Dalles, Or.)
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Der Demokrat (Davenport, Iowa) 186?-1868
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Fort Pierce News (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920
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Parsons City Advocate (Parsons, W. Va.)
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Vorbote (Chicago, Ill.)
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Ameryka Echo (Toledo, Ohio)
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Ashland Weekly Tidings (Ashland, Or.)
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Hyder Alaska Miner (Hyder, Alaska)
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Pick and Shovel (Bauxite, Ark.)
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The States and Union (Ashland, Ohio)
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The Farmington Times (Farmington, Mo.)
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The Grant County Herald (Big Stone City, Grant County, Dakota [S.D.])
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The Guide (Oklahoma City, Okla. Territory)
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The Jewish Advance (Chicago, Ill.)
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The Daily Alaska Citizen (Fairbanks, Alaska)
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The Daily Critic (Washington City, D.C.)
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Malvern Times=journal (Malvern, Ark.)
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The Port-Gibson Correspondent (Port Gibson, Miss.)
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The Portsmouth Inquirer (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio])
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St. Mary's Gazette (Leonard Town, Md.)
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Washington Sentinel (Washington City [D.C.])
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The Arkansas Farmer (Little Rock, Ark.) 192?-1937
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Barbour Jeffersonian (Philippi, W. Va.)
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The Comet (Jackson, Miss.)
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The Farmington Times and Herald (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.)
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Monongalia Mirror (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.])
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The Palatka News and Advertiser (Palatka, Fla.)
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The Arizona Gleam (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1929-193?
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The Columbus Weekly Dispatch (Columbus, Miss.)
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Granite Farmer and Visitor (Manchester, N.H.)
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The Kansas State Ledger (Topeka, Kan.)
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Russkiĭ Vestnik I Rassvet = Russian Daily Herald and Dawn (Chicago, Ill.)
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White Pine News (East Ely, Nev.)
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