Comics, magazines and newspapers
4,417–4,464 of 4,692, free to read, from the world's archives.
Where these come from, and who sees what
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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. |
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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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African Expositor (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-18??
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Africo-American Presbyterian (Wilmington, N.C.)
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The Afro-American Citizen (Charleston, S.C.)
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Afro-Independent (St. Paul, Minn. ; Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1???
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Airdome Bulletin (Stuttgart, Ark.) 1912-19??
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The Aliened American (Cleveland, Ohio) 1853-18??
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The Alliance Eagle (Ellisville, Jones, Miss.)
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The American Citizen (Baltimore [Md.]) 1879-1???
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The American Eagle (St. Louis, Mo.) 1894-19??
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The American Negro (Springfield, Mo.)
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Arizona Mining News (Jerome, Yavapai County, Ariz.)
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The Arkadelphia Index (Arkadelphia, Ark.) 1908-19??
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Arkansas Democrat (Little Rock, Ark.)
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The Arkansas Economist (Searcy, Ark.) 188?-189?
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The Arkansas Farmer (Little Rock, Ark.) 18??-18??
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The Arkansas Farmer and Mechanic (Benton, Ark.)
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Arkansas Staats=zeitung (Little Rock, Ark.)
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Arkansas State Rice Journal (Stuttgart, Ark.) 1909-19??
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Arkansas Survey (Little Rock, Ark.)
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Arkansas Survey-Journal (Little Rock, Ark.) 1935-195?
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The Arkansas World (Little Rock, Ark.)
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Arkansaw Populist (Searcy, Ark.) 189?-1???
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The Arkansawyer (Stuttgart, Ark.) 190?-1915
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Atlanta Age (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-19??
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The Augusta Union (Augusta, Ga.) 1889-19??
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The Barbour Jeffersonian (Philippi, Va. [W. Va.])
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The Bear Mountain Miner (Bear City, Ark.) 188?-1???
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The Beaufort Republican and Sea Island Chronicle (Beaufort, S.C.)
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Black Republican and Office-Holder's Journal (New York, N.Y.) 18??-18??
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The Booster (Stuttgart, Ark.)
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The Boston Advance (Boston, Mass.)
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The Boston Courant (Boston, Mass.) 1890-19??
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The Boston Gazette, Or, Country Journal (Boston [Mass.]; Watertown, Mass)
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Brownlow's Knoxville Whig and Independent Journal (Knoxville, Tenn.)
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Brownlow's Knoxville Whig (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1868-18??
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Bryan Daily Eagle (Bryan, Tex.)
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The Bulletin (Louisville, Ky.) 18??-18??
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The Call-Chronicle-Examiner (San Francisco, Calif.)
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Canton Herald and Mississippi Intelligencer (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1837
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The Carlisle Arrow and Red Man (Carlisle, Pa.) 1917-????
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The Carolina News (Forest City, N.C. ; Harris, N.C.) 1952-19??
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The Carrollton Democrat (Carrollton, Miss.) 18??-18??
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The Chicago Illinois Idea (Chicago, Ill.) 19??-19??
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The Chicago Reflector (Chicago, Ill.) 1896-1???
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The Chicago World (Chicago, Ill.) 1900-19??
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The Christian Banner (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1888-19??
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The Clarksville Weekly Chronicle (Clarksville, Tenn.) 18??-185?
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