Comics, magazines and newspapers
3,025–3,072 of 201,405, 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. |
|---|---|
| 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. |
Beadle's New York Dime Library (no. 83) (1879 12 17)
Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine v11n51 American Mercury (Feb 1948)
Pep Comics 12 (1941)
Pep Comics 39 -(1943)
Shanghaied (1916) Magazine Cover
Amazing Stories v02 n03 [1927-06]
Amazing Stories v36n06 (1962 06) (Chainsaw Shank)
Modern Screen 1960-11 Vol. 54, No. 11
Adventure v097 n03 [1937-07]
The Rio Kid Western v13n03 [1946-12] (beb)
Astounding v12n05 (1934 01)
Blue Beetle 020 (1955)
Liberty v09 n28 [1932-07-09]
The All-Story Magazine, Dec 1913
The American Woman v29n03 [1919-08]
Fantastic, November 1958
Popular Magazine v055 n05 [1920-06-20]
Newspaper