Comics, magazines and newspapers
3,985–4,032 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 Virginia Star (Richmond, Va.) 1877-18??
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The Wadsworth Dispatch (Wadsworth, Nev.)
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The Wagner Post (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-Current
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The Weekly News (Anacostia [i.e. Washington] D.C.) 1909-19??
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Zion's Friend, and General Baptist Register (Providence [R.I.])
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Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)
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Baranof Banner (Sitka, Alaska)
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Clayton Herald (Clayton, Del.)
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Copway's American Indian (New-York, N.Y.)
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The Daily Alaskan (Skaguay [Skagway] Alaska)
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Der Lecha Patriot Und Northampton Caunty Wöchentlicher Anzeiger (Allentaun, Pa.) 183?-1839
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The Farmers' Alliance and Nebraska Independent (Lincoln, Nebraska)
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Genius of Universal Emancipation (Baltimore; Hennepin, Ill.)
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The Handsboro Democrat (Handsboro, Miss.)
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The Hornet (Carrollton, Miss.)
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Hot Springs Echo (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1???-19??
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The Jackson Daily Standard (Jackson [Ohio]) 1873-188?
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Lewisburg Chronicle, and West Branch Farmer (Lewisburg, Pa.)
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Metropolitan News (Chicago, Ill.) 1935-19??
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Milwaukee Herold (Milwaukee, Wis.)
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Montana Oil Journal (Great Falls, Mont.) 192?-1931
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Southern Patriot (Houston, Chickasaw County, Miss.) 18??-18??
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The Southern Reveille (Port Gibson, Miss.)
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Sunday Chicago Bee (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??
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Victory Worker (Seattle, Wash.)
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The Arkansas Farmer (Little Rock, Ark.) 1881-18??
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The Avalanch (McCarthy, Alaska)
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The Bennington Daily Banner (Bennington, Vt.)
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The Benton Democrat (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1871-18??
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The Daily Corinthian (Corinth, Miss.) 1895-Current
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Daily National Democrat (Little Rock, Ark.)
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Echo (West Hartford, Conn.) 1948-19??
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Echo-Tally (West Hartford, Conn.)
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The Hood River Sun (Hood River, Wasco County, Oregon) 1899-19??
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The Kansas Blackman (Topeka, Kan.) 1894-1???
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The Labor Standard (Hartford, Conn.) 1908-192?
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The Marlinton Journal (Marlinton, W. Va.)
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McDowell Progress (Elkhorn, W. Va.) 1883-????
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The Mississippi Lynx (Panola, Miss.) 1846-18??
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The Mountain Echo (Keyser, W. Va.)
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The Northern Galaxy, and Middlebury People's Press (Middlebury, Vt.)
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The Northern Star and Freemen's Advocate (Albany, N.Y.) 1842-18??
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The Pioneer and Woman's Advocate (Providence, R.I.) 1852-185?
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The Rugby News (Rugby, Morgan County, Tenn.) 1890-189?
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Spirit of Kosciusko (Kosciusko, Miss.)
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The St. George Union (St. George, Utah)
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The Sun (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1883-188?
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