Comics, magazines and newspapers
3,505–3,552 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. |
|---|---|
| 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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Enterprise News-Record (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.)
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Florida Labor Advocate (Tampa, Fla.)
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The Missouri Herald (Hayti, Mo.)
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The Nevada Picayune (Prescott, Nev. County, Ark.)
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Pawtucket Evening Post (Pawtucket, R.I.)
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Conservative, and Holly Springs Banner (Holly Springs, Miss.)
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Corvallis Daily Gazette (Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon)
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El Farol (Capitan, Condado De Lincoln, Nuevo México) 1905-19??
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The Georgetown News (Georgetown, El Dorado County, Cal.)
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Knoxville Whig and Chronicle (Knoxville, Tenn.)
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The Manning Times (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-Current [Online Resource]
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The Pennsylvania Journal, Or, Weekly Advertiser (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Puget Sound Weekly Argus (Port Townsend, Jefferson County, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1883-188?
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Southern Pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties Advertiser (Carrollton, Miss.)
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Valdez News (Valdez, Alaska)
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Weekly Clarksville Chronicle (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857
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The Wellington Enterprise (Wellington, Ohio)
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Western Christian Recorder (Kansas City, Kan.) 18??-1899
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Winchester Journal (Winchester, Indiana)
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Arkansas Weekly Mansion (Little Rock, Ark.)
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Ashtabula Weekly Telegraph (Ashtabula, Ohio)
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Brookville American (Brookville, Ind.)
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The Critic and Record (Washington, D.C.)
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El Pelayo (Nueva-Orleans i.e. New Orleans, La.)
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The Examiner (Norwich, Conn.)
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La Revista De Taos and the Taos Cresset (Taos, Nuevo México)
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The Morning Star (Carlisle, Pa.)
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Ohio (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio])
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Semi-Weekly Bourbon News (Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky.)
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Semi-Weekly Independent (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.)
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The Soldiers' Journal (Rendezvous of Distribution, Va.)
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The Spirit of the Times (Pontotoc, Miss.)
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The State Guard (Wetumpka, Ala.) 1847-18??
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Sun-Journal (Brooksville, Fla.)
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Suwannee Democrat (Live Oak, Fla.) 1897-Current
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The Washington Socialist (Everett, Wash.)
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The Weekly Register (Ponola [Sic] Panola, Miss.)
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Centre Hall Reporter (Centre Hall, Pa.)
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Communiqué (Denson, Ark.)
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The Daily Chattanooga Rebel (Griffin, Ga.)
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Devils Lake World (Devils Lake, N.D.)
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El Federal (Tampa, Fla.)
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The Hazlehurst Signal (Hazlehurst, Miss.)
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Jenks' Portland Gazette. Maine Advertiser (Portland, Me.)
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The Llano Colonist (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937
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The Newington Citizen (Newington, Conn.)
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The Panola Star ([Panola] Panola County, Miss.)
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