Comics, magazines and newspapers
2,545–2,592 of 4,692, free to read, from the world's archives.
Where these come from, and who sees what
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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 Elk Advocate (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868
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The Inter-Mountain (Elkins, W. Va.)
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The Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.)
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The National Republican and Cincinnati Daily Mercantile Advertiser (Cincinnati, [Ohio])
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South Carolina Temperance Advocate and Register of Agriculture and General Literature (Columbia, S.C.)
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Yankton Daily Press and Dakotaian (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.])
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Monte Vista Journal and Monte Vista Graphic-Reporter (Monte Vista, Colo.)
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The River Falls Times (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.)
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The Star (Cincinnati [Ohio])
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Wisconsin Herald (Lancaster, Wis.)
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The Cadiz Sentinel (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851
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The Eddy Current (Eddy [Carlsbad], N.M.) 189?-1899
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Mississippi Leader (Jackson, Miss.)
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Newport Weekly Independent (Newport, Ark.)
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The Radical (Bowling Green [Mo.])
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The Washington Critic (Washington, D.C.)
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The Weekly Echo (Meridian, Miss.)
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Long Valley Advocate (Lardo, Idaho)
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Morgan County Democrat (Versailles, Mo.)
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Quincy Herald (Quincy, Fla.) 1877-189?
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American Lancaster Gazette (Lancaster, Ohio)
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The Coastland Times With Which Is Combined the Pilot and Herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter (Manteo, N.C.)
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Daily Northern Tribune (Bath, Me.)
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The Houma Courier (Houma, La.)
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Polk County News (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983
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The Robbins Eagle (Robbins, Ill.)
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Semi-Weekly North-Carolina Standard (Raleigh, N.C.)
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The Vashon Island Record (Vashon, Wash.)
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Bloomington Herald (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa])
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Idaho Springs Siftings (Idaho Springs, Colo.)
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Iowa Territorial Gazette and Advertiser (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa])
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The Newhampshire Gazetteer (Exeter, N.H.)
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Arizona Sentinel and Yuma Weekly Examiner (Yuma, Ariz.)
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Idaho Semi-Weekly World (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory)
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The Irish News and Chicago Citizen (Chicago, Ill.)
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The Oklahoma Miner (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?
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The Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg, Va.)
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Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad Hustler (Hendersonville, N.C.)
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Crittenden Record=press (Marion, Ky.)
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Flag of the Union (Jackson, Miss.) 1850-18??
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The Kalispell Bee (Kalispell, Mont.)
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Kootenai County Republican (Rathdrum, Idaho)
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El Democrata Del Condado De Costilla (San Luis, Colo.)
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The Native American (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.])
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The News Boy (Benton, Scott County, Mo.)
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Omnibus ([Louisville, Ky.]) 1867-19??
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The Pascoag Herald (Pascoag, R.I.)
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