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From: Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com>
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Subject: Re: Question about ISFDB statistic
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:30:32 -0400
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On 4/13/2025 3:51 AM, Charles Packer wrote:
> Why the wide swing in the number of titles in the ISFDB
> by year of publication -- 50% jump -- from 1938 to 1939?
> It's hard to believe that it reflects a step function in public
> interest. The context is as follows:
> 
> year 1936 count 4738
> 1937  4628
> 1938  4117
> 1939  6245
> 1940  6685
> 1941  5746
> 1942  5513

There were only 3 stable science fiction monthlies between mid-1930 and 
mid-1938, i.e. during the depths of the Great Depression: *Amazing*, 
*Astounding* and *Wonder* (*Thrilling Wonder* after 1936.) Things began 
to improve in mid-1938 with the launch of *Marvel* and then the Golden 
Age really took off in 1939: *Unknown*, *Planet Stories*, *Captain 
Future*, *Startling Stories*, *Dynamic*, *Famous Fantastic Mysteries*, 
*Science Fiction*/*Future Fiction*, *Strange Stories*, *Uncanny Tales*, 
*Marvel Science Stories*, *Fantastic Adventures*, *Science Fiction 
Quarterly*, *Super Science Stories*, *Astonishing Stories*, *Cosmic 
Stories*, *Fantastic Novels*, *Stirring Science Stories*. Many of them 
died or had to scale back in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, but the ones 
that survived made a comeback after WWII.