Comics, magazines and newspapers
3,697–3,744 of 201,385, free to read, from the world's archives.
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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. |
|---|---|
| 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. |
The Bandit Queen: A Tale Of Italy - Emerson Bennett [circa 1869]
Detective Weekly #379 [1940-05-25]
Short Stories v174 n05 [1941-03-10]
Astounding v01n02 (1930 02) (bogof39)
Astounding v01n03 (1930 03) (cape1736 edit)
La Guerre Infernale N 29 (1908 08 09)
Amazing Stories v04n05 (1929 08) (ufikus DPP)
Zip Comics 04 (1940)
Donald A. Wollheim (ed.) Avon Fantasy Reader no. 3 (1947)
Railroad Man's Magazine v03 n01 1930-08.Munsey (Team-DPP-IA)
Weird Tales Canadian Ed. v38n03 (1945 09)
Bulletman Comics (Fawcett Comics) Issue #1
Forbidden Worlds 081
Fantastic Adventures v04n05 (1942 05) (cape1736)
Unknown v05n06 (1942 04) SLiV
Blue Ribbon Comics 10 (1941)
Ten Cent Claude Duval Novels No. 11 [circa 1870] ("Luke, The Swell: An Exciting Story Of Life, Love And Intrigue")
10 Story Western October 1951
The New Movie 1930-07 Vol. 2, No. 1
Out of the Night 003 (1952)
Newspaper
Amerikanski Srbobran (Pittsburg, Pa.; Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1906-Current
Weird Tales v39n11 (1947 07) [LPM AT SAS]
Two-Gun Western Novels Magazine v03n02 [1942-04] (TeamMal-DPP)
Astounding v52n05 (1954 01) (cape1736)
Top-Notch Comics 16 (1941)
1946-01 Fifteen Western Tales v008n004
Adventure v102 n02 [1939-12]
Famous Fantastic Mysteries v13n04 (1952-06)(RAW)
Planet Stories v03n03 [1946 Su] (sas)
Space Adventures 04
Out of the Night 008 (1953)
Two Complete Detective Books #14 (Summer 1942)
Weird Tales v37n04 (1944 03) ( fc,ifc) (slpn)
Illustrated London News 1843-05-27: Vol 2 Iss 56
Pep Comics 15 (1941)
Top-Notch Comics 01 -(1939)
Fantastic Adventures v02n02 [1940-02] {CN-SAS}
New Penny Standard Library Of Complete Tales No. 07 ("The Duchess's Warning") (Frederick Farrah, 1873)
Newspaper