Comics, magazines and newspapers
1–48 of 124, 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. |
|---|---|
| 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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Fantastic Universe v02 n05 [1954-12]
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Fantastic Universe v04n06 (1956 01)
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Fantastic Universe v03n05 King Size (Jun 1955) (Modified)
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Fantastic Universe v01n06 (1954 05) (UnkSc cape1736)
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Fantastic Universe v10n02 (1958 08)
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Fantastic Universe v01n01 (1953-06.King-Size)
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Fantastic Universe v08n03 (Sep 1957) (Wilddog-DCP)
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Fantastic Universe v01n06 (1954 05)
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Fantastic Universe v12n03 [1960-01] (AT-LPM)
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Fantastic Universe v04n04 (1955-11.King-Size)
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Fantastic Universe v10n04 [1958-10]
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Fantastic Universe v04n03 (1955-10.King-Size)
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Fantastic Universe v04n05 (1955-12.King-Size)
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Fantastic Universe v10n05 (1958 11)
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Fantastic Universe v08n04 [1957-10] (AT-LPM)
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Fantastic Universe v12n04 (1960 02)
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Fantastic Universe v01n02 (1953 08 09)
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Fantastic Universe v11n03 - 1959 - King-Size
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Fantastic Universe v11n05 (1959 09)
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Fantastic Universe v04n01 King-Size (Aug 1955)
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Fantastic Universe v03n02 [1955-03] (DaisyChainsaw)
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Fantastic Universe v03n03 (1955 04)
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Fantastic Universe v05n03 (1956 04)
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Fantastic Universe v03n06 (1955 07)
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Fantastic Universe v12n05 (1960-03.Great American)
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Fantastic Universe v02n04 [1954-11] (dtsg0318)
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Fantastic Universe v06n03 (1956 10)
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Fantastic Universe v11n04 (1959 07)
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Fantastic Universe v11n01 (1959 01)
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Fantastic Universe v11n06 (1959 10)
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Fantastic Universe v08n01 (1957 07)
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Fantastic Universe v02n03 (1954 10)
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Fantastic Universe v09n06 [1958-06] (AT-LPM)
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Fantastic Universe v05n02 (1956 03)
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Fantastic Universe v03n05 (1955 06)
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Fantastic Universe v03n01 [1955-02] (dtsg0318)
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Fantastic Universe v06n05 (1956 12)
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Fantastic Universe v09n03 (1958 03)
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Fantastic Universe v01n01 (1953 06 07)
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Fantastic Universe v03n04 [1955-05] (AT-LPM)
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Fantastic Universe v02n01 (1954 07)
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Fantastic Universe v05n06 (1956 07)
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Fantastic Universe v10n03 [1958-09] (AT-LPM)
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Fantastic Universe v06n01 (1956 08)
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Universe #03 (1953 12) (cape1736)
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Fantastic Universe v07n01 (1957 01)
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Fantastic Universe v10n01 (1958 07)
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