Comics, magazines and newspapers
2,737–2,784 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. |
Astounding v37n05 (1946 07) (cape1736)
Weird Tales 1931-1932
Startling Stories v19n01 (1949 03)
Blue Book v052 n06 [1931-04]
The New Movie 1934-12 Vol. 10, No. 6
Modern Mechanix, September 1933
Amazing Stories v17n05 (1943 05) (cape1736)
Amazing Stories v25n07 (1951 07) (oak)
Hillbilly Comics 001
Amazing Stories v18n05 (1944 12) (cape1736)
Astounding v48n02 (1951 10) (Gorgon776)
Astounding v55n06 (1955 08) (UnkSc cape1736)
Crime Mysteries 007 (Trojan 1952)
Fame And Fortune Weekly (no. 379) (1913 01 03)
Amazing Stories v25n06 (1951 06) (Gorgon776) (Missing ibc,bc)
Astounding v47n03 (1951 05) (Sam Hall)
Weird Tales v09n04 [1927 04] (AT sas)
Sunday Magazine [1906-03-18]
Astounding v46n04 (1950 12) (MadMaxAU)
Mysterious Adventures 015 (Story 1953)
Private Detective January 1946
Newspaper