Comics, magazines and newspapers
3,409–3,456 of 201,375, 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. |
Astounding v43n05 (1949 07) (cape1736)
Astounding v49n02 (1952 04) (Gorgon776)
Castle of Frankenstein 002 (1962)
Popular Magazine v067 n06 [1923-04-07]
Amazing Stories v06n01 (1931 04) (cape1736)
Amazing Stories v23n06 (1949 06) (frankenscan c2c)
Astounding v41n03 (1948 05) (cape1736) (fixed)
The American Eagle v25n02 [1943-Winter] (-53, 54, 55, 56, ibc, bc) {jvh-EXciter}
The Modern Boy v14n358 [1934-12-15] (Christmas Number) {minotaur}
Modern Mechanix, June 1934
Zip Comics 15 (1941)
Amazing Stories v08n10 (1934 02)
Science Fiction Series No. 15: "The Invading Asteroid" by Manly Wade Wellman (Stellar Publishing Corporation, 1932)
Weird Mysteries 001 1959-04.Pastime
GI Joe v6 044 (1956 03)
Ha Ha Comics 060 (1948)
Amazing Stories v36n09 (1962 09) (slpn)
Astounding v52n01 (1953 09) (dtsg0318)
Western Story v177 n05 [1939-10-28]
Adventure v072 n06 [1929-12-01]
Popular Magazine v080 n04 [1926-06-07]
The American Boy v027n09 [1926-07] (Gorgon776)
Amazing Stories v02n11 (1928 02) (Missing ifc,ibc,bc)
Adventure v096 n04 [1937-02]
Space Busters # 1 Spring 1952
Zip Comics 16 (1941)
Zip Comics 21 (1941)
Charlie Chan 006 c2c
[CFC-26] Isaac Asimov (1962) Fundación e Imperio
The New Movie 1930-01 Vol. 1, No. 2
Boy's Cinema 0531 [1930-02-15]
Astounding v54n04 (1954 12) (cape1736)
Eerie 006
Ellery Queens Mystery Magazine 075 Mellifont (Apr 1959) (British Edition)
Popular Magazine v100 n04 [1930-08-01]
Astounding October 1940
Other Worlds December 1952
Western Story v210n03 [1944-02-05] {SAS-LPM}
If - Worlds Of Science Fiction v01n03 [Quinn] (Jul 1952) (Gorgon776)
Animal Comics 001
Astounding v39n02 (1947 04) (AK)
Thrilling Wonder Stories v34n01 (1949 04)
Newspaper