Comics, magazines and newspapers
3,073–3,120 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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Bedford Inquirer and Chronicle (Bedford, Pa.)
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The Critic (Washington, D.C.)
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The Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??
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Ketchum Daily Keystone (Ketchum, Idaho)
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The National Reflector (Wichita, Kan.)
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The Norfolk Weekly News (Norfolk, Neb.)
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The Northwest Worker (Everett, Wash.)
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The Toiler (Cleveland, Ohio)
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Tri-Weekly Astorian (Astoria, Oregon)
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The Belmont Chronicle, and Farmers, Mechanics and Manufacturers Advocate (St. Clairsville, Ohio)
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Colored Citizen (Fort Scott, Kan.)
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The Fool-Killer (Moravian Falls, N.C.)
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Las Vegas Times (Las Vegas, Nev.)
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Panama City Pilot (Panama City, Washington County, Fla.; Panama City, Fla.)
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The Prairie News (Okolona, Miss.)
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The Primitive Republican (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852
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Sunday Dispatch (New York [N.Y.])
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The Weekly American Banner (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??
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Western Appeal (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??
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Golden Era (Lincoln, N.M.) 1884-188?
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Grand Island Anzeiger (Grand Island, Nebraska)
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The Louisiana Cotton-Boll (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.)
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Manchester American & Messenger (Manchester, N.H.)
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The Ohio Star (Ravenna, Ohio)
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Saint Paul Weekly Minnesotian (Saint Paul, Minn.)
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The San Juan Times (Farmington, N.M.)
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Southern Live-Stock Journal (Starkville, Miss.)
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The Allen County Times (Scottsville, Ky.)
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The Alliance-Independent (Lincoln, Nebraska)
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The Arkansas Farmer (Conway, Ark.) 190?-1917
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The Daily Herald (Middlesborough, Ky.) 1891-1???
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The Eastern Clarion (Paulding, Miss.)
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Loudon Free Press (Loudon, Tenn.)
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The Socialist and Labor Star (Huntington, W. Va.)
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Western News-Democrat (Valentine, Neb.)
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Fincastle Mirror (Fincastle, Va.)
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The Newport Gazette (Newport [R.I.])
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Western Enquirer (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.])
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The Western Outlook (San Francisco, Cal.)
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Arkansas Ladies' Journal (Little Rock, Ark.)
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Clayton Enterprise (Clayton, Union County, N.M.)
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Gazette and Sentinel (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville, La.)
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Grant County Herald (Lancaster, W.T. [i.e. Wis.])
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The Massachusetts Spy (Boston [Mass.])
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The Mena Star (Mena, Ark.)
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Nevada National (Grass Valley, Calif.) 1858-186?
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The Ozark Spectator (Ozark, Franklin County, Ark.)
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