Comics, magazines and newspapers
3,313–3,360 of 196,591, 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. |
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Blue Book v047 n03 [1928-07]
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Dime Detective v08 n03 [1933-10-15]
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Triple Detective V 07n 01 ( 1951 Fall)
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Eerie 005
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Jackpot Comics 03 -(1941)
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Zip Comics 26 (1942)
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Astounding v61n06 (1958 08) (EXciter LennyS)
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True Mystery v07n04 (1957-08.Skye)(DREGS P.I.)
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Amazing Stories v01n09 (1926 12) (Missing ifc)
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Amazing Stories v29n07 (1955 12) (cape1736)
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Detective Novels Magazine October 1943
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Movie TV Secrets, Fall 1961
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Out of the Night 017 (1954)
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Astounding v41n02 (1948 04) (cape1736)
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Everybody's Magazine v56 n02 [1927-02]
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Forbidden Worlds 007
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Amazing Stories v13n02 (1939 02) (cape1736)
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Astounding v59n04 (1957 06) (Gorgon776)
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GI Joe v6 048 (1956 12)
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The Black Mask, Dec 1921
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Western Story Magazine v160n03 [1937-10-30]
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The New Movie 1930-02 Vol. 1, No. 3
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Popular Detective October 1942
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Astounding v44n02 (1949 10) (cape1736)
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Chatterbox 1894
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Wonder Stories v07n07 (1936.02.Continental)(gorgon)
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Blue Book v058 n01 [1933-11]
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Startling Stories Canadian Ed. V 17n 02 (1948)
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Amazing Stories v12n06 (1938 11) (cape1736)
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Man v30n05 (1951-10.Kenmure)(thebigtc)
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Amazing Stories v29n05 (1955 09) (cape1736)
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The Golden Argosy v005n11 [1887-02-12] (ufikus-DPP)
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Galaxy Science Fiction Novel #01 Eric Frank Russell Sinister Barrier (1950)
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Argosy v169n04 [1925-06-13]
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Eerie 008
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Amazing Stories v09n11 (1935 03) (Gorgon776)
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Amazing Stories v34n11 (1960 11) (UnkSc cape1736)
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Astounding v11n03 (1933 01) (FBFB)
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Astounding v47n06 (1951 08) (MadMaxAU)
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Weird Tales 1939-1940
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Horror Monsters v02n06 (1963-Fall.Charlton) (Darwin-IA)
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Saturday Evening Post 1835-10-24: Vol 14 Iss 743
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If - Worlds Of Science Fiction v01n06 [Quinn] (Jan 1953) (Gorgon776)
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Amazing Stories v07n08 (1932 11) (Missing ifc,ibc,bc)
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Amazing Stories v34n04 (1960 04) (cape1736 edit)(incomplete)(archive.org)
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Physical Culture: The Personal Problem Magazine (May, 1935)
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The Saturday Evening Post 1922-10-07: Vol 195 Iss 15
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