Comics, magazines and newspapers
1–28 of 28, 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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American Science Fiction #27 (1954)
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American Science Fiction #35 (1955)
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American Science Fiction #24 (1954)
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American Science Fiction #26 (1954)
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Famous American Science Fiction #01 (1952 06)
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American Science Fiction #36 (1955)
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American Science Fiction #08 (1952 12)
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American Science Fiction #24 (1954) C.L. Moore There Shall Be Darkness (BL)
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American Science Fiction #30 (1954 09)
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American Science Fiction #08 (1952 12) Lawrence O'Donnell (H. Kuttner & C. L. Moore) Clash by night (MadMaxAU)
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American Science Fiction #14 (1953 06)
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American Science Fiction #20 (1953 12)
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Famous American Science Fiction #01 (1952 06) Robert Moore Williams Red Death of Mars (BL)
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American Science Fiction #41 (1955 09)
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American Science Fiction #19 (1953 11)
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American Science Fiction #20 (1953 12) (BL)
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American Science Fiction #35 (1955) (BL)
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American Science Fiction #14 (1953 06) (BL)
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American Science Fiction #41 (1955 09) Daniel R. Gilgannon Stopwatch on the World
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The American Boy v110n02 [1936-02] (Gorgon776)
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Fantastic Universe v12n05 (1960-03.Great American)
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The American Catalogue, 1876-1884 - compiled by R. R. Bowker & Miss A. I. Anderson (Office of The Publisher's Weekly, 1885)
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Nebula American Ed. #39 (1959 06)
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Worlds of IF (March 1955)
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Galaxy Magazine (March 1952)
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Galaxy v03n06 (1952 03)
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Amazing Stories v27n04 (1953 04.Ziff Davis)(Gorgon776)
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