Comics, magazines and newspapers
4,513–4,560 of 196,589, 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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La Guerre Infernale N 15 (1908 05 03)
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Pluck and Luck; No. 1283
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The Saturday Evening Post 1929-04-06: Vol 201 Iss 40
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Pep Comics 10 (1940)
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Eerie 016
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Astounding British edition November 1953
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Web of Evil 001
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Cap'n Joey's JCap'n Joey's Jazza-Ka-Jazza v01n06 1922-Fall (Darwin-IA)
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The Cavalier v09 n02 [1911-07]
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Popular Magazine v072 n02 [1924-05-07]
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The Junior Munsey v10n01 [1901-04] (-ifc, toc, ads, ibc, bc)
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The New York Detective Library v01n359 [1889-10-19] ("Old King Brady And The James Boys")
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Thrilling Detective v47 n03 [1943-06]
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Infinity Science Fiction June 1956
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The Saturday Evening Post 1919-05-03: Vol 191 Iss 44
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The Saturday Evening Post 1920-02-21: Vol 192 Iss 34
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Adventure v053 n01 [1925-06-10]
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Avon Science Fiction Reader 003 (Cape 1736)
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Weird Tales v35n01 (1940 01) (slpn)
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Science Wonder Stories v01n03 (1929 08.Stellar)
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Railroad Stories v18 n04 [1935-11]
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Wings v11 n07 [1949-Fall]
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The New Movie 1931-02 Vol. 3, No. 2
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Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine July 1962
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Western Story 1924-12-27
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The Saturday Evening Post 1906-12-29: Vol 179 Iss 26
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Cavalcade 1953-04
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Wings v11n06 [1949-Summer] (LPM-URF-AT-SAS)
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Pleasure; A Holiday Book Of Prose And Verse - Edited by J. H. Friswell (Henry S. King, 1871)
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Attack 060 (1959)
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Blue Ribbon Comics 07 (1940)
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Black Magic 037 (v06 04)
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Astounding British edition August 1954
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Avon Fantasy Reader 03 (1947)
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Astounding v02n02 (1930 05) (bogof39)
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Adventure v075 n02 [1930-07-01]
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Famous Detective Stories, June 1954
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Telling Tales v23n01 1924-03-10.Climax (D&M-IA)
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Pep Comics 52
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Cavalcade 1954-05
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Jackpot Comics 05 (1942)
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Weird Thrillers 004 JVJon
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The New Movie 1933-05 Vol. 7, No. 5
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La Guerre Infernale N 22 (1908 06 21)
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The Saturday Evening Post 1925-02-07: Vol 197 Iss 32
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The Saturday Evening Post 1925-02-14: Vol 197 Iss 33
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Man v27n03 (1950-02.Kenmure)
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