Comics, magazines and newspapers
3,265–3,312 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. |
Zip Comics 10 (1941)
Fantastic Universe v03n05 King Size (Jun 1955) (Modified)
Amazing Stories v30n05 (1956 05) (Gorgon776)
Astounding v48n03 (1951 11) (Gorgon776)
Astounding v56n04 (1955 12) (UnkSc cape1736)
Amazing Stories v14n02 (1940 02) (cape1736)
Amazing Stories v20n01 (1946 02) (cape1736)
Amazing Stories v22n08 (1948 08)
Air Adventures v01n01 [1939-12]
Complete Stories v35 n04 [1934-04-30]
Underworld Of Zello - Jon J. Deegan (1952) (Bogof39)
Amazing Stories v14n12 (1940 12) (cape1736)
Astounding v61n04 (1958 06) (dtsg0318)
The New Movie 1931-01 Vol. 3, No. 1
Pocket Book Story Teller Weekly - 25th June, 1949
The Arkham Sampler #6 (Spring 1949)
Western Story v178n03 [1939-11-25]
Amazing Stories v28n04 (1954 09) (cape1736)
Good Housekeeping v155 n04 [1962-10]
The Saturday Evening Post 1906-01-13: Vol 178 Iss 29
Modern Mechanix, February 1936
Eerie 015
Calling All Boys 006 (1946)
Tick Tock Tales 029
Astounding v62n04 (1958 12) (EXciter LennyS)
Western Story Magazine v160n02 [1937-10-23]
Newspaper