Comics, magazines and newspapers
3,121–3,168 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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Semi-Weekly Louisianian (New Orleans, La.)
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The State (Providence, R.I.)
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The Xenia Sentinel (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?
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The North Platte Tribune (North Platte, Neb.)
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The Polynesian (Honolulu (Oahu), Hawaii)
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Spray Courier (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??
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The Telescope (Warren, R.I.) 1813-181?
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The Tribune Independent of Michigan (Detroit, Mich.)
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Weekly Indiana State Sentinel (Indianapolis [Ind.])
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Western Cyclone (Nicodemus, Kan.)
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Cheyenne Wells Record (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1???-1969
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The Democratic Sentinel and Harrison County Farmer (Cadiz, Ohio)
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Eastern Colorado Times (Cheyenne Wells, Colo.)
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Hartford Watchman (Hartford, Con[N].)
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The Jerome News and Copper Belt (Jerome, Yavapai County, Ariz.)
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The Las Vegas Weekly Optic and Stock Grower (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1898-190?
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The Nenana News (Nenana, Alaska)
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The Stroller's Weekly and Douglas Island News (Juneau, Alaska)
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Sword and Shield (Clinton, Miss.)
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The Voice of Labor (Cumberland, Md.)
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The Canton Mail (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882
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The Concordia Sentinel (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-Current
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Goldsboro Semi-Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1909-19??
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Harpers-Ferry Free Press (Harper's Ferry, Va. [i.e. Harpers Ferry, W. Va.])
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The Illinois Record (Springfield, Ill.) 1897-1???
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The Mena Weekly Star (Mena, Ark.)
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The National Whig (Washington, D.C.)
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Oracle Post (Portsmouth, N.H.)
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The Teller (Lewiston, North Idaho)
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The Advocate and Topeka Tribune (Topeka, Kan.)
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Brownlow's Knoxville Whig (Knoxville, Tenn.)
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The Cimarron News and Cimarron Citizen (Cimarron, Colfax County, N.M.) 19??-19??
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Daily Gateway (Seward, Alaska)
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The Daily Republican (Wilmington, Del.) 1902-19??
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Dayton Union News ([Dayton, Ohio])
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Frostburg Mining Journal (Frostburg, Md.)
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La Voz Del Pueblo (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1950-195?
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Lynwood Press and Lynwood Buyer's Guide (Lynwood, Calif.)
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Owyhee Semi-Weekly Tidal Wave (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory)
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People's Party Paper (Atlanta, Ga.)
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The Progress-Itemizer (Water Valley, Miss.)
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Rio Grande Republican (Las Cruces, N.M.)
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Snips and the St. Johns Herald (St. Johns, Ariz.)
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Clarksville Evening Chronicle (Clarksville, Tenn)
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The Connecticut Observer, and New-York Congregationalist (Hartford [Conn.])
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Lewiston Daily Teller (Lewiston, Idaho)
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Lincoln County Tribune (North Platte, Neb.)
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