Comics, magazines and newspapers
3,937–3,984 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 Paducah Weekly Sun (Paducah, Ky.) 1902-19??
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The Southern Banner (Holly Springs, Miss.)
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State Journal & Flag (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
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Western Reserve Chronicle and Weekly Transcript of the Times (Warren, Ohio)
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Ameryka W Toledo (Toledo, Ohio)
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Anchorage Weekly Times and Cook Inlet Pioneer (Anchorage, Alaska)
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Attala Register (Kosciusko, Miss.)
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The Bee (Newtown, Conn.)
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Ceredo Crescent (Ceredo, Va.)
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Columbia Weekly News (Columbia, Cal.) 1858-1???
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Courier-Herald (Kennewick, Wash.)
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The Daily Advertiser ; Political, Historical, and Commercial (New York [N.Y.])
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Das Pw-Echo (Camp Rucker, Ala.) 1945-194?
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The Gale (Iuka, Miss.) 18??-1888
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The Lincoln Independent (Lincoln, Neb.)
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The Negro World (St. Paul, Minn. ; Minneapolis, Minn.) 1892-19??
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The New-Jersey Journal (Chatham, N.J.)
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The Nome Daily Gold Digger (Nome, Alaska)
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Nome Industrial Worker (Nome, Alaska) 1907-19??
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Ponola [Sic] Weekly Register (Ponola [Sic], Miss.)
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The Southern Aegis (Bel Air, Md.)
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St. Cloud Visiter [Sic] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.)
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State Rights and Democratic Union (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1839-18??
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Stevens County Reporter (Morris, Minn.)
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The Sunday Globe (Washington, D.C)
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The Tri-Weekly Journal (Camden, S.C.)
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The Tulean Dispatch (Tule Lake, Calif.)
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Brownlow's Weekly Whig (Knoxville, Tenn.)
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Buckeye Valley News and Continuation of the Buckeye Review (Buckeye, Maricopa County, Ariz.)
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The Democrat (Honolulu, T.H.)
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The Des Arc Weekly Citizen (Des Arc, Ark.) 186?-1861
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The Drill (Pinal City, Pinal County, Ariz. Territory)
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The Gary Colored American (Gary, Ind.)
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The Hatchet (Washington, D.C.) 1883-19??
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The Honesdale Citizen (Honesdale, Pa.)
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The Huntsman's Echo (Wood River, Buffalo County, N.T. [Neb.])
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Idaho Semi-Weekly Keystone (Ketchum, Idaho)
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The Iowa Patriot (Burlington [Iowa])
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The Jerome Chronicle (Jerome, Yavapai County, Ariz.)
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Martinsburg Gazette (Martinsburg, W. Va.)
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The Messenger (Georgetown, Del.) 1858-18??
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The Morris Herald (Morris, Conn.) 1898-190?
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National Baptist World (Wichita, Kan.)
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The Nicodemus Enterprise (Nicodemus, Kan.)
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Payne Field Zooms (Payne Field, West Point, Miss.)
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The Ripley Transcript (Ripley, Miss.) 1837-18??
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The Rutland Weekly Globe (Rutland, Vt.)
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