Comics, magazines and newspapers

1–48 of 5,014, free to read, from the world's archives.

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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.
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.

Comics, magazines and newspapers

Scientific American 1908-10-10: Vol 99 Iss 15

Scientific American Volume 75 Number 04 (July 1896)

Scientific American Volume 01 Number 01 (August 1845)

Scientific American Volume 45 Number 27 (December 1881)

Scientific American Volume 94 Number 02 (January 1906)

Scientific American Volume 90 Number 05 (January 1904)

Scientific American 1919-08-23: Vol 121 Iss 8

Scientific American 1845-08-28: Vol 1 Iss 1

Scientific American Volume 37 Number 25 (December 1877)

Scientific American Volume 39 Number 16 (October 1878)

Scientific American Volume 51 Number 23 (December 1884)

Scientific American Volume 94 Number 15 (April 1906)

Scientific American Volume 92 Number 04 (January 1905)

Scientific American Volume 101 Number 26 (December 1909)

Scientific American Volume 101 Number 24 (December 1909)

Scientific American Volume 100 Number 03 (January 1909)

Scientific American Volume 43 Number 07 (August 1880)

Scientific American Volume 100 Number 08 (February 1909)

Scientific American Volume 49 Number 02 (July 1883)

Scientific American 1845-11-20: Vol 1 Iss 10

Scientific American Volume 95 Number 21 (November 1906)

Scientific American Volume 79 Number 13 (September 1898)

Scientific American Volume 80 Number 19 (May 1899)

Scientific American Volume 50 Number 14 (April 1884)

Scientific American Volume 89 Number 05 (August 1903)

Scientific American Volume 89 Number 26 (December 1903)

Scientific American Volume 96 Number 03 (January 1907)

Scientific American Volume 95 Number 07 (August 1906)

Scientific American Volume 17 Number 01 (July 1867)

Scientific American Volume 96 Number 24 (June 1907)

Scientific American 1929-07: Vol 141 Iss 1

Scientific American Volume 73 Number 12 (September 1895)

Scientific American Volume 45 Number 23 (December 1881)

Scientific American 1925-09: Vol 133 Iss 3

Scientific American Volume 94 Number 14 (April 1906)

Scientific American Volume 88 Number 15 (April 1903)

Scientific American 1902-05-10: Vol 86 Iss 19

Scientific American Volume 101 Number 15 (October 1909)

Scientific American Volume 58 Number 15 (April 1888)

Scientific American Volume 57 Number 14 (October 1887)

Scientific American Volume 97 Number 19 (November 1907)

Scientific American 1845-11-27: Vol 1 Iss 11

Scientific American Volume 91 Number 11 (September 1904)

Scientific American Volume 55 Number 03 (July 1886)

Scientific American Volume 100 Number 26 (June 1909)

Scientific American Volume 92 Number 01 (January 1905)

Scientific American Volume 96 Number 02 (January 1907)

Scientific American Volume 31 Number 08 (August 1874)