Comics, magazines and newspapers

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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 OnesFunny-animal comics and nursery magazines.
KidsComics and magazines made for children, such as St. Nicholas and Child Life, unless they deal with ghosts, monsters, spies or fights.
TweensHumour and teen comics, science, computing, sport and hobby magazines, true stories and education.
TeensEverything 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.
AdultWorks 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.
Magazine

Hector Servadac (aka "Off On A Comet") - Jules Verne (Scribner, Armstrong, 1878)

1878 · Internet Archive

Hector Servadac (aka "Off On A Comet") - Jules Verne (Scribner, Armstrong, 1878). First American edition. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Hector…

Magazine

Amazing Serials 01 Verne, Jules Off on A Comet ( 1926 4, 5)

1926 · Internet Archive

Scan of the two-part serial as published in Amazing Stories, April and May 1926.

Magazine

Comet v01n05 (1941 07)

1941 · 132 pages · Internet Archive

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Comet v01n01 (1940 12) (UnkSc)

1940 · 132 pages · Internet Archive

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Comet v01n03 (1941 03) (UnkSc)

1941 · 132 pages · Internet Archive

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Comet v01n02 (1941 01) (ufikus DPP)

1941 · 133 pages · Internet Archive

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Comet v01n04 (1941 05) (UnkSc)

1941 · 132 pages · Internet Archive

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[SIP-2] Alan Comet (1959) Asesinato en Luna-Término

1959 · Internet Archive

Spacial International Police - 2 de 81 «Entraron.Por el momento, desde donde estaban, junto al umbral de la puerta, no vieron nada. El sillón…

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[SIP-36] Alan Comet (1959) Contrato fatal

1959 · Internet Archive

Spacial International Police - 36 de 81 André descolgó el teléfono, dejando el cigarrillo sobre el borde del plateado cenicero, que había sobre la…

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[SIP-26] Alan Comet (1959) ¡Miedo en la SIP!

1959 · Internet Archive

Spacial International Police - 26 de 81 La astronave era pequeña, de líneas sencillas y estaba pintada de azul claro. Al lado de cualquier tipo de…

Newspaper

The Comet (Johnson City, Tenn.)

1884–1916 · United States · Library of Congress

1,552 issues from 1884 to 1916, published in Johnson City, Tennessee, digitised for Chronicling America.

Newspaper

The Daily Comet (Baton Rouge, La.)

1852–1856 · United States · Library of Congress

740 issues from 1852 to 1856, published in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, digitised for Chronicling America.

Newspaper

Baton Rouge Tri-Weekly Gazette & Comet (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??

1865–1869 · United States · Library of Congress

340 issues from 1865 to 1869, published in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, digitised for Chronicling America.

Newspaper

Daily Gazette and Comet (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?

1860 · United States · Library of Congress

255 issues from 1860, published in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, digitised for Chronicling America.

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The Morning Comet (Baton Rouge, La.)

1856 · United States · Library of Congress

230 issues from 1856, published in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, digitised for Chronicling America.

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The Comet (Jackson, Miss.)

1879–1882 · United States · Library of Congress

167 issues from 1879 to 1882, published in Jackson, Mississippi, digitised for Chronicling America.

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The Weekly Comet (Baton Rouge, La.)

1853–1855 · United States · Library of Congress

134 issues from 1853 to 1855, published in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, digitised for Chronicling America.

Newspaper

The Johnson City Comet (Johnson City, Tenn.)

1916–1917 · United States · Library of Congress

65 issues from 1916 to 1917, published in Johnson City, Tennessee, digitised for Chronicling America.

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The Comet (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??

1917–1918 · United States · Library of Congress

35 issues from 1917 to 1918, published in Johnson City, Tennessee, digitised for Chronicling America.

Newspaper

Johnson City Comet (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1918-19??

1918 · United States · Library of Congress

1 issue from 1918, published in Johnson City, Tennessee, digitised for Chronicling America.

Magazine

Worlds of IF (November 1952)

1952 · 124 pages · Internet Archive

(Contents information excerpted from The Internet Speculative Fiction Database ) Art: Rocket-Launching Satellite by uncredited The Image and the…

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Amazing Stories v19n01 1945 03 (Ziff Davis)(cape1736)

1945 · Internet Archive

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Amazing Stories v15n01 (1941 01.Ziff Davis)(cape1736)

1941 · Internet Archive

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Amazing Stories v01n02 1926 05 002

1926 · Internet Archive

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If - Worlds Of Science Fiction v01n05 [Quinn] (Nov 1952) (Gorgon776)

1952 · 126 pages · Internet Archive

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Science Fiction v01n02 1939-06.Blue Ribbon c2c (Ufikus-DPP)

1939 · Internet Archive

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Year When Stardust Fell (1958.Winston)(cape1736)

1958 · 222 pages · Internet Archive

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Scientific American Volume 42 Number 24 (June 1880)

1880 · Internet Archive

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Scientific American Volume 99 Number 06 (August 1908)

1908 · Internet Archive

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Scientific American Volume 101 Number 07 (August 1909)

1909 · Internet Archive

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Scientific American Volume 67 Number 22 (November 1892)

1892 · Internet Archive

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Scientific American Volume 47 Number 02 (July 1882)

1882 · Internet Archive

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Scientific American Volume 47 Number 16 (October 1882)

1882 · Internet Archive

Comic

Captain Marvel Adventures 145

37 pages · Internet Archive

Comic

Captain Marvel Adventures 111

53 pages · Internet Archive

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Scientific American Volume 12 Number 35 (May 1857)

1857 · Internet Archive