Comics, magazines and newspapers
1–48 of 2,769, free to read, from the world's archives.
Where these come from, and who sees what
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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 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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Hearst's Magazine v25n03 [1914-03] {cmb-EXciter}
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Hearst's Magazine v30 n03 [1916-09]
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Hearst's Magazine v24 n01 [1913-07]
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Hearst's Magazine v30 n04 [1916-10]
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Hearst's International, vol. 43
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1920 True Ghost Stories Part 1 A. Conan Doyle In Hearst's Mag Jan
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Hearst's international. Volume 42 No 1-6 (July-December 1922)
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Popular Mechanics 1920-10: Vol 34 Iss 4
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Cosmopolitan 1910-11: Vol 49 Iss 6
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Popular Mechanics 1926-09: Vol 46 Iss 3
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Popular Mechanics 1922-06: Vol 37 Iss 6
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The Cosmopolitan 1888-11: Vol 6 Iss 1
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Popular Mechanics 1928-12: Vol 50 Iss 6
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Harper's Bazaar 1899-10-07: Vol 32 Iss 40
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The Cosmopolitan 1889-03: Vol 6 Iss 5
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Popular Mechanics 1902-01-11: Vol 1 Iss 1
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The Cosmopolitan 1888-12: Vol 6 Iss 2
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The Cosmopolitan 1889-02: Vol 6 Iss 4
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The Cosmopolitan 1889-04: Vol 6 Iss 6
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The Cosmopolitan 1889-01: Vol 6 Iss 3
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Harper's Bazaar 1917-04: Vol 52 Iss 4
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Harper's Bazaar 1925-02: Vol 60
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Popular Mechanics 1930-01: Vol 53 Iss 1
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Cosmopolitan 1926-09: Vol 81 Iss 3
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Popular Mechanics 1920-03: Vol 33 Iss 3
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Harper's Bazaar 1899-09-09: Vol 32 Iss 36
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Harper's Bazaar 1921-06: Vol 56 Iss 6
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Cosmopolitan 1927-06: Vol 82 Iss 6
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Popular Mechanics 1902-01-25: Vol 1 Iss 3
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Popular Mechanics 1929-01: Vol 51 Iss 1
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Popular Mechanics 1920-04: Vol 33 Iss 4
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The Cosmopolitan 1903-04: Vol 34 Iss 6
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Harper's Bazaar 1899-09-23: Vol 32 Iss 38
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Popular Mechanics 1920-12: Vol 34 Iss 6
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Popular Mechanics 1920-08: Vol 34 Iss 2
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Popular Mechanics 1920-06: Vol 33 Iss 6
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Popular Mechanics 1930-03: Vol 53 Iss 3
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The Cosmopolitan 1886: Vol 1 Table of Contents
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Popular Mechanics 1920-05: Vol 33 Iss 5
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Popular Mechanics 1920-11: Vol 34 Iss 5
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Popular Mechanics 1920-09: Vol 34 Iss 3
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Popular Mechanics 1920-01: Vol 33 Iss 1
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Popular Mechanics 1920-02: Vol 33 Iss 2
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Popular Mechanics 1902-01-18: Vol 1 Iss 2
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Harper's Bazaar 1899-09-16: Vol 32 Iss 37
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Popular Mechanics 1920-07: Vol 34 Iss 1
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Cosmopolitan 1906-09: Vol 41 Iss 5
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