Comics, magazines and newspapers
3,793–3,840 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. |
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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 Kennewick Courier-Reporter and the White Bluffs Spokesman (Kennewick, Wash.)
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Owyhee Tidal Wave (Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho Territory [Idaho])
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The San Francisco Call and Post (San Francisco, Calif.)
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The Teton Peak-Chronicle (St. Anthony, Idaho)
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The Topeka Tribune (Topeka, Kan.)
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The Tri-Weekly Herald (Newberry, S.C.)
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Weekly American (Washington, D.C.)
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The Weekly Dawn (Ellensburg, Wash.)
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The Western Advance (Worthington, Minn.)
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Western Courier (Ravenna, Ohio)
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The Western Recorder (Elbert, Elbert County, Colo.)
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The Banner-Enterprise (Wilmington, N.C.) 1883-18??
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Central Register (Kosciusko, Miss.) 1839-18??
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The Cimarron Citizen (Cimarron, N.M.) 1908-19??
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The Co-Operative News (Everett, Wash.)
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Dakota Tawaxitku Kin, Or, the Dakota Friend (Saint Paul, Minn.)
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The Howard Union (Glasgow, Mo.)
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The New-York Journal, and Weekly Register (New-York [N.Y.])
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The Rustler (Cerrillos, N.M.) 1891-1???
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White County Record (Judsonia, Ark.) 1922-200?
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The Williamson Enterprise (Williamson, W. Va.)
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Windham County Democrat (Brattleboro, Vt.)
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Woman's Enterprise (Baton Rouge, La.) 1921-19??
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Yukon Valley News (Tanana, Alaska)
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Cherokee Phoenix (New Echota [Ga.])
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El Imparcial (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1956-19??
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Fort Wrangel News (Fort Wrangel, Alaska)
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The Garland City Globe (Garland, Utah) 191?-1925
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Hannibal Journal and Western Union (Hannibal, Mo.)
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Holly Springs Banner (Holly Springs, Mi. [i.e. Miss.])
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The Illinois Standard (Chicago, Ill.)
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Jerome News (Jerome, Yavapai County, Ariz.) 1914-19??
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The Literary Echo (Westerly, R.I.)
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The Palladium (St. Louis, Mo.) 18??-1903
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The Pioche Tri-Weekly Record (Pioche, Nevada)
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Semi-Weekly News (Shreveport [La.])
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The South Pass News (South Pass City, Wyo.)
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The Bryan Eagle (Bryan, Tex.)
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The Camden Journal (Camden, S.C.)
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The Columbus Weekly Courier (Columbus, N.M.)
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Columbus Whig (Columbus, Miss.) 1843-18??
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The Connecticut Courant (Hartford, Conn.)
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The Constitutional Union (Des Arc, Ark.)
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Daily Clarion and Standard (Jackson, Miss.)
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The Delaware Farmer (Milford, Del.) 1883-18??
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El Ocasional (Phoenix, A.T. [Ariz.]) 189?-18??
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Good News (Boomer, N.C.)
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