Comics, magazines and newspapers
3,793–3,840 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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Amazing Stories v05n05 (1930 08) (Missing ifc)
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Astounding v10n01 (1932 04)
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Astounding v12n03 (1933 11) (dtsg0318 LennyS)
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Astounding v49n01 (1952 03) (Gorgon776)
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The Ghost Super-Detective #2, Spring 1940
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GI Joe v4 036 (1954 10)
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McCall Needlework (Summer 1938)
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Black Diamond Western 012
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Amazing Serials 03 Verne, Jules - Trip To The Center Of The Earth (1926 5, 6, 7)
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Broadway Brevities, June 1921
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GI Joe v6 047 (1956 10)
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Hangman Comics 02 (1942)-inc
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Speed Western January 1947
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Chatterbox 1887
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Amazing Stories v15n02 (1941 02) (cape1736)
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Top-Notch Comics 14 (1941)
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Fantastic Story Magazine v08n01 (1955 Winter)
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Planet Stories v04n01 (1948 Winter)
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The New Movie 1934-01 Vol. 9, No. 1
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Complete Story Magazine v02n05 [1925-01-25]
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Science Fiction Digest v01n06 [1933-02]
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Munsey's v86 n02 [1925-11]
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Private Detective Stories May 1944
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black book detective v22n3 47.06 - hanos reprint
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Weird Tales v12n03 (1928 09) ATLPM Urf
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Smashing Detective Stories July 1956
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Science Wonder Stories v01n02 (1929 07.Stellar) (unknown DPP)
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Adventure v119 n02 [1948-06]
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Amazing Stories Quarterly v02n04 (1929 Fall) (Missing ibc,bc)
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Jungle Stories, Fall 1948
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Popular Magazine v063 n02 [1922-02-07]
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Western Trails v42n04 [1947-07] (Missing p77-p80)
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The New Movie 1930-09 Vol. 2, No. 3
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Harper's Weekly 1913-12-20: Vol 58 Iss 2974
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Golden Fleece V 01n 01 ( 1938 10)
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Gunsmoke v01n01 1953-06.Flying Eagle (Darwination-IA)
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Hot Dog v01n02 1921-10.Merit (Darwin-IA)
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Captain Future v06n02 Days of Creation spring 1944
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Black Magic 040 (v07 01)(1958)
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Fantasy Fiction v01n02 (1953 06) (Gorgon776)
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Scientific American Volume 39 Number 16 (October 1878)
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Sons Of Britannia v14n362 [1877-02-03] (ufikus-DPP)
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The Saturday Evening Post 1906-03-10: Vol 178 Iss 37
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Amazing Stories v25n03 (1951 03) (cape1736 edit) (archive.org)
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Screen Thrills Illustrated No. 01 (v01n01) [1962 06] (c2c) (bones666 DCP)
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Astounding v50n03 1952-11
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