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name: "Comicbooks.com Reading Room"
subtitle: "20,000 restored golden-age comics, sorted by genre, free"
date: 2026-08-07
shortlist: true
link: "https://comicbooks.com/read"
linkText: "comicbooks.com"
source: "Open Culture"
topics: [history-and-archives, design-and-art]
tags: [comics, public-domain, archive, golden-age]
description: "An online reading room of more than 20,000 digitised and restored golden-age comics, browsable by genre — superhero, western, romance, horror, funny animal."
---

More than 20,000 golden-age comics, digitised and restored, sorted into the genres that actually filled the racks: superhero, yes, but also western, romance, horror, science fiction and the entire lost category of funny animal, where *Super Duck* and *Lucky Duck* and *Wonder Duck* were competing titles at the same time. Free, no account, and the restoration means the colour is the colour someone chose in 1941.