Comics, magazines and newspapers
3,457–3,504 of 4,692, free to read, from the world's archives.
Where these come from, and who sees what
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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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The Richmond Indiana Palladium (Richmond, Ind.)
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The Warm Springs Advertiser (Warm Springs, Ga.)
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Whip & Spur (Newport, N.H.) 1839-18??
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The Columbus Weekly Dispatch (Columbus, Miss.) 1908-19??
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The Delaware Gazette (Wilmington [Del.])
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Des Arc Citizen (Des Arc, Ark.)
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The Honolulu Times (Honolulu [Hawaii])
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Ladies' Enterprise (Manchester, N.H.) 1854-18??
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The Madisonian (Canton, Miss.)
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The Mansfield Press (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.)
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Paducah Sun (Paducah, Ky.) 1???-1902
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Philip Weekly Review (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.)
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The Thlinget (Sitka, Alaska)
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The Trinity Journal (Weaverville, Trinity County, Cal.)
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The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??
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West Side News and Hilltop Record (Columbus, Ohio)
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Austin's Hawaiian Weekly (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?
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The Avant Courier (Bozeman, Mont.)
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Carlsbad Current and New Mexico Sun (Carlsbad, N.M.)
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Crystal River Current (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??
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The Daily Republic (Washington, D.C.)
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Deseret Farmer (Provo, Utah)
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The Flagstaff Sun-Democrat (Flagstaff, Ariz.)
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Imperial Press and Farmer (Imperial, San Diego County, Cal.)
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Lynchburg Star (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1805-181?
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Migrant's Mike (Somerton, Ariz.) 1941-194?
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Our Living and Our Dead (Newbern [i.e. New Bern], N.C.) 1873-187?
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Rhode Island Freeman (Providence, R.I.) 1853-185?
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The Samaritan, and Total Abstinence Advocate (Providence [R.I.]) 1841-184?
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The University Daily (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????
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Yew Pine Independent (Richwood, W. Va.) 1911-191?
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Arbeidsmanden (Fertile, Minn. ; Crookston, Minn.)
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Community Council Commentator ([Jacksonville, Fla.])
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Cook Inlet Pioneer and Knik News (Anchorage, Alaska)
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Delaware Gazette and Peninsula Advertiser (Wilmington, Del.)
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The Frontier Index (Kearney [i.e. Fort Kearny], Neb.) 1867-18??
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The Keesler Field News (Keesler Field, Miss.) 1941-19??
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Macon Herald (Macon, Miss.)
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The New Era-Leader (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.)
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The Recorder (Richmond, Va.)
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Sistersville Oil Review (Sistersville, W. Va.)
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Southern Ladies' Journal (Little Rock, Ark.)
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The Times-Observer (Topeka, Kan.)
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Weekly Confederate (Raleigh [N.C.])
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The Century Voice (Yazoo City, Miss.) 194?-19??
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The Chilkat Post (Fort William H. Seward [i.e. Port Chilkoot (Haines)] Alaska)
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The Colfax Chronicle (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.)
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