Comics, magazines and newspapers
4,465–4,512 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 Colored Citizen (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1863-18??
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The Colored Visitor (Logansport, Ind.) 1879-18??
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Columbus Chronicle (Columbus, Ga.)
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Columbus Standard (Columbus, Ohio)
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The Commercial Courier (Union City, Tenn.) 1897-190?
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Connecticut Chronicle (Hartford, Conn.) 194?-194?
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The Connecticut Citizen (Ridgefield, Conn.) 1892-189?
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The Connecticut Courant (Hartford, Conn.)
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The Connecticut Craftsman (Hartford, Conn.) 193?-193?
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Connecticut Workman (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1901-190?
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Copiah County News (Hazlehurst, Miss.)
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Corinth Chanticleer (Corinth Miss.)
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The Corinth War Eagle (Corinth, Miss.) 1862-186?
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The Crescent (Beaufort, S.C.)
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The Crusader (New Orleans, La.) 1889-189?
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The Daily Banner (Bennington, Vt.)
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The Daily Gazette (Billings, Mont.)
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The Daily Miner (Butte, Mont.)
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The Daily Picket (Canton, Miss.) 18??-19??
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Das Deutsche Blatt Des West Virginia State College ([Institute, West Virginia]) 19??-????
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The Dawn (Ellensburg, Wash.)
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The De Witt Sentinel (De Witt, Ark.) 1869-18??
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The Defender (Philadelphia ; Bryn Mawr [Pa.]) 1897-19??
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Delaware Advertiser & Star (Wilmington, Del.) 1832-18??
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The Delaware Democrat (Georgetown, Del.)
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The Delaware Leader (Laurel, Del.) 191?-19??
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Delaware Straight-Out Truth Teller ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1872-18??
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Delaware Weekly Advertiser and Farmer's Journal (Wilmington, Del.)
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The Delawarean, and Farmers' and Mechanics' Advertiser (Wilmington, Del.) 183?-18??
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The Delmar News (Delmar, Del.) 1904-19??
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Der Friedens=bote Und Lecha, Northampton, Bucks, Berks Und Montgomery Caunties Anzeiger (Allentaun, Pa.)
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The Detroit Informer (Detroit, Mich.) 1897-19??
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Dewitt Gazette (Dewitt, Arkansas County, Ark.)
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The Dover Argus and Delaware Advertiser (Dover, Del.) 1804-18??
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The Dover Herald (Dover, Del.) 1800-18??
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Eagle City Tribune (Eagle City, Alaska) 1898-189?
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East Mississippi Times (Starkville, Miss.) 1870-18??
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The Echo (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.)
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El Progreso (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1???-19??
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The Elevator (San Francisco, Calif.) 1865-1???
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The Eleventh Ohio (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.])
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The Enterprise (Omaha, Neb.)
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The Essex Journal, and New-Hampshire Packet (Newbury-Port [Mass.])
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The Fairfield Courier (Winnsboro, S.C.)
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The Faulkland Quiz (Faulkland, Del.) 1892-18??
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Faulkner County Wheel (Conway, Faulkner County, Ark.) 1887-189?
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Fayetteville Democrat (Fayetteville, Washington County, Ark.)
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