Comics, magazines and newspapers
2,977–3,024 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 Alaska Fisherman (Juneau, Alaska)
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Carlsbad Current (Carlsbad, N.M.)
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The Connecticut Labor Press (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921
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The Dollar Weekly Bulletin (Maysville, Ky.)
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The Homer Homesteader (Homer, Alaska) 194?-19??
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The Massachusetts Spy, Or, Thomas's Boston Journal (Boston [Mass.])
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Semi-Weekly Camden Journal (Camden, South-Carolina)
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Vandalia Whig and Illinois Intelligencer (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?
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The Weekly Arizonian (Tucson, A.T. [Ariz.])
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The Weekly Soliphone (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.)
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West Virginia Democrat (Charles Town, W. Va.)
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Bradford County Telegraph (Starke, Fla.) 1888-Current
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Cheraw Gazette (Cheraw, S.C.)
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Columbus Daily Courier (Columbus, N.M.)
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The Lamoille News (Hyde Park, Vt.)
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The Northwestern Bulletin (St. Paul, Minn. ; Minneapolis, Minn.)
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The Red Man (Carlisle, Pa.)
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The Winslow American (Winslow, Washington County, Ark.)
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The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.])
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Bloomsburg Democrat (Bloomsburg, Pa.)
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Columbia Courier (Kennewick, Wash.)
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The Danbury News (Danbury, Conn.)
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Des Arc Citizen (Des Arc, Ark.) 1854-186?
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The Morning Sun (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1907-19??
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The Northern Star, and Farmers' and Mechanics' Advocate (Warren, R.I.)
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The Pick and Drill (Prescott, Ariz.)
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The South Western News (Dawson, Ga.) 188?-1889
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Winchester Virginia Republican (Winchester, Va.) 182?-184?
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The Aberdeen Examiner (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-Current
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The Frontiersman (Seldovia, Alaska) 1946-19??
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Hammond Gazette (Point Lookout, Md.)
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Massachusetts Spy and Worcester Advertiser ([Worcester, Mass.])
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Maumee City Express (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?
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Tri-County Bulletin (Grand Rapids, Ohio)
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The United States Oracle of the Day (Portsmouth, N.H.)
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The White Mountain Echo (Bethlehem, N.H.) 191?-1928
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The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware Advertiser (Wilmington, Del.)
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Clarksville Weekly Chronicle (Clarksville, Tenn.)
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The Daily Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, Ky.)
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The Palatka News (Palatka, Fla.)
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San Saba County News (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??
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Stikeen River Journal (Fort Wrangel, Alaska)
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The Weekly Butte Record (Oroville [Calif.])
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Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.)
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Salt River Journal (Bowling Green, Mo.)
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The Sedalia Times (Sedalia, Mo.)
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South-Carolina Temperance Advocate (Columbia, S.C.)
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