Comics, magazines and newspapers
4,609–4,656 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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Out of the Night 002 (1952)
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Smash Comics 042
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Советское фото, вып. 01, 1926 г.
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Thrilling Wonder Stories v36n02 (1950 06)
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10 Story Western February 1948
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La Guerre Infernale N 23 (1908 06 28)
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Weird Story Magazine (Aug 1940)
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Exciting Detective v06 n01 [1943-04]
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Famous Detective Stories v15 n05 (1956-02.Columbia) (MW-Nation-IA)
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Popular Magazine v088 n03 [1928-01-14]
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Short Stories v201 n04 [1947-08-25]
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Western Story v127 n05 [1934-01-27]
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Forbidden Worlds 069 -fixed
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Pep Comics 14 (1941)
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Shield Wizard Comics 08 (1942)
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Top-Notch Comics 08 (1940)
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Zip Comics 33 (1943)
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Wonder Stories v07n03 (1935 08)
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Thrilling Wonder Stories v18n02 (1940 11)
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Weird Tales v35n06 (1940 11) ( ifc) (slpn)
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Zip Comics 28 (1942)
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Christine Campbell Thomson (ed) - At Dead of Night (1931)
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Imaginative Tales v01n04 (1955 03)
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Planet Stories v03n07 (1947 Summer)
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Thrilling Wonder Stories v12n02 (1938 10)
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The New Movie 1931-08 Vol. 4, No. 2
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The Saturday Evening Post 1925-03-07: Vol 197 Iss 36
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The Saturday Evening Post 1929-12-28: Vol 202 Iss 26
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Our Flag Comics 002
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Startling Stories v22n01 (1950 09)
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Mammoth Mystery v02 n01 [1946-01]
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Pearson's (US) v51n01 [1925-02]
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Scientific American Volume 94 Number 15 (April 1906)
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Hand of Fate 021 (1953)
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Lil Genius 022 (1959)
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Top-Notch Comics 04 (1940)
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Zip Comics 12 (1941)
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Zip Comics 30 (1942)
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Adventure v053 n03 [1925-06-30]
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Atoman 01
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The Golden Book v09 n050 [1929-02]
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Out of the Night 002 (1952)
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Planet Stories v02n11 (1945 Summer)
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[EEMF-53] Eduardo Texeira (1957) El pueblo oculto de Kon-Tiki
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The New Movie 1931-12 Vol. 4, No. 6
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La Guerre Infernale N 12 (1908 04 12)
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The Saturday Evening Post 1906-09-22: Vol 179 Iss 12
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