Comics, magazines and newspapers
4,033–4,080 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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Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine March 1963
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The Saturday Evening Post 1930-08-09: Vol 203 Iss 6
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Beware Terror Tales (Fawcett Comics) Issue 006
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, August 1920
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Thrilling Wonder Stories v10n03 (1937-12.Better) c2c (ufikus-DPP)
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The Popular Magazine, Nov 11 1912
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Astounding v03n02 (1930 08) (bogof39)
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Argosy All-Story Weekly, volume 124, number 1 (1920-08-07)
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The Saturday Evening Post 1920-04-10: Vol 192 Iss 41
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Planet Stories v03n06 (1947 Spring)
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GI Joe v4 031 (1954 05)
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1939-04 Frontier Stories v014n003
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Northwest Romances v16 n05 [1948-Summer]
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The Great Ones - Jon J. Deegan (Panther, 1953) (Bogof39)
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Adventure v098 n04 [1938-02]
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Secret of Saturn's Rings (1954.Winston)(cape1736) - Wollheim
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Why Magazine, October 1953
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Blue Book v047 n04 [1928-08]
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Adventure v107 n06 [1942-10]
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The Boys' Friend #487 [1910-10-08] ("Sexton Blake; Foreman") (minotaur)
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Planet Stories v02n06 (1944 Spring)
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine May 1942
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The Saturday Evening Post 1924-04-19: Vol 196 Iss 42
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Astounding v18n04 (1936 12) (Missing ibc) (cape1736)
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Top-Notch Comics 15 (1941)
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Close-Up, February 5, 1922
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Detective Weekly #009 [1933-04-22]
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Popular Magazine v03 n02 1904-12.Street & Smith (LB-Darwin-IA)
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Blue Ribbon Comics 05 (1940)
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Castle of Frankenstein 003 (1963.Gothic Castle)
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The Saturday Evening Post 1906-12-08: Vol 179 Iss 23
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Brain 001
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Thrilling Wonder Stories v28n03 (1946 Summer)
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GI Joe v7 049 (1957 02)
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Astounding v03n01 (1930 07) (bogof39)
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Weird Tales 1945-1946
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Collier's Magazine From March 16 1918 To September 7 1918
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Silken Threads: A Detective Story - Harold Williams (Alexander Gardner, 1890)
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Out of the Night 008 (1953)
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5 Vintage Western Paperbacks
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The Popular Complete Stories v25n04 [1931-10-15] [Fixed] (jvh-EXciter)
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Galaxy Science Fiction Novel #46 Cyril Judd Sin in Space (1961)
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Statten, Vargo - The Devouring Fire (Scion, 1951)
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The Red Raven Library #04 [1905-02-04]
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Fantastic Adventures v09n07 (1947 11) (unz.org)
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Planet Stories v03n08 (1947 Fall)
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Andy Hardy 515
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