Comics, magazines and newspapers
3,841–3,888 of 201,375, 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. |
Harper's Weekly 1913-12-20: Vol 58 Iss 2974
Golden Fleece V 01n 01 ( 1938 10)
Gunsmoke v01n01 1953-06.Flying Eagle (Darwination-IA)
Hot Dog v01n02 1921-10.Merit (Darwin-IA)
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Captain Future v06n02 Days of Creation spring 1944
Black Magic 040 (v07 01)(1958)
Fantasy Fiction v01n02 (1953 06) (Gorgon776)
Scientific American Volume 39 Number 16 (October 1878)
Sons Of Britannia v14n362 [1877-02-03] (ufikus-DPP)
The Saturday Evening Post 1906-03-10: Vol 178 Iss 37
Amazing Stories v25n03 (1951 03) (cape1736 edit) (archive.org)
Screen Thrills Illustrated No. 01 (v01n01) [1962 06] (c2c) (bones666 DCP)
Astounding v50n03 1952-11
Amazing Stories v09n09 (1935 01) (Gorgon776)
All True Romance 009
Startling Stories v06n03 1941-11
La Guerre Infernale N 08 (1908 03 15)
The Saturday Evening Post 1906-10-06: Vol 179 Iss 14
Blue Book v042 n03 [1926-01]
Thrilling Wonder Stories v32n03 (1948 08)
Planet Stories v02n04 (1943 Fall)
Thrilling Wonder Stories v34n03 (1949 08)
Amazing Stories v05n10 (1931 01) (Missing ifc)
Clues Detective Stories March 1936
Jungle Stories v04n01 (1947 Winter)
Vogue 1892-12-17: Vol 1 Iss 1
Astounding British edition November 1945
Frank Reade Library v01n12 [1892-12-10]
New Nick Carter Weekly #37 [1897-09-11]
McCall's v088 n10 [1961-07]
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