The reading room · The illustrated past

Open a book.
Step into another world.

Restored comics, colorful satire and stories from the dawn of popular illustration. A library to explore, one page at a time.

33,674 published reading-room and magazine issues in the preserved collection.

From the shelves

3-D Circus #1Fiction House · 36 pagesBad Men of Tombstone #1Superior · 36 pagesBlue Bolt #108Star Publications [1949-1954] · 36 pagesCaptain Midnight #13Fawcett · 67 pagesCowboy Western Comics #17Charlton · 36 pagesDark Mysteries #24Master Comics · 36 pagesFamous Funnies #57Eastern Color · 55 pagesFilm Fun #1519Amalgamated Press · 15 pagesGabby Hayes Western #16Fawcett · 36 pagesHa Ha Comics #16American Comics Group · 52 pagesI Love You #45Charlton · 36 pagesJungle Jim #14Pacific Comics Club · 36 pages