Comics, magazines and newspapers
4,129–4,176 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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Mechanix Illustrated v23n04 [1940-02]
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Brain Power v01n01 1921-09.Physical Culture (Darwination-IA)
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Fight Stories v03n04 1930-09.Fiction House (Darwination vs McCoy-IA)
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Super Detective November 1946
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Treasure Chest v10 006 (1954)
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Amazing Stories v03n02 (1928 05) (Missing ifc,ibc,bc)
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La Guerre Infernale N 14 (1908 04 26)
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The Saturday Evening Post 1929-02-23: Vol 201 Iss 34
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The Saturday Evening Post 1930-10-25: Vol 203 Iss 17
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Liberty v15 n46 [1938-11-12]
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Popular Mechanics 1928-12: Vol 50 Iss 6
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Zip Comics 31 (1942)
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Amazing Stories v15n11 (1941 11) (cape1736)
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Screenland, September 1923
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Weird Tales v36n05 (1942 05) (Gorgon776)
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Shield Wizard Comics 04- (1941)
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Top-Notch Comics 11 (1941)
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Zip Comics 36 (1943)
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Weird Tales v35n09 (1941 05) ( ifc) (slpn)
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A-1 Comics 001 - Kerry Drake
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Eerie 017
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Amazing Stories v12n07 (1938 12) (cape1736)
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Astounding v07n03 (1931 09) (pulpmaniacal Gorgon776 edit) (fiche)
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Adventure v119 n03 [1948-07]
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The Lone Eagle February 1941
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Amazing Mystery Funnies V2 012
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Eerie 004
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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Oct. 1921
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Unknown v03n06 (1940 08) (unz.org)
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Weird Tales v41n05 (1949 07) [LPM AT SAS]
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Cynthia: A Story Of Mystery - Rosalind Sibold (Greenwich Book Publishers, 1957)
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Fantastic Universe v10n02 (1958 08)
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Manhunt v02n01 (1954-01.Flying Eagle)
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Zip Comics 33 (1943)
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The Saturday Evening Post 1906-03-24: Vol 178 Iss 39
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Five-Novels Monthly v44 n03 [1938-12]
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Adventure v115 n06 [1946-10]
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Planet Stories v06n02 (1953 09)
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Crown Comics 01
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Treasure Chest v13 012 (1958)
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Treasure Chest v15 001 (1959)
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Astounding v03n03 (1930 09) (cape1736 edit)
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Chatterbox 1905
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Chatterbox 1908
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Space Adventures 05
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Ten-Story Detective March 1941
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Out of the Night 006 (1953)
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