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The 1940s contain the following years:

Contents 1 Years 2 Overview 3 1940s Sci Fi Innovations 4 1940s Mainstream Impacts on Sci Fi 5 Related Terms and Articles

Years

Each year is listed along with one or two major genre-related events that happened that are unique to that year:

• 1940 -
• 1941 -
• 1942 -
• 1943 -
• 1944 -
• 1945 -
• 1946 -
• 1947 - The flying saucer age begins
• 1948 -
• 1949 -

Overview

World events were dominated by World War II, which had begun in the late 1930s, but saw US involvement in 1941 and continuing until the mid 1940s. Following the war, the world saw a difficult political realignment and aftermath period. Technology, driven in part by Cold War competition, saw the groundwork laid for future lifestyles, such as the transistor, computers and early adopters buying television sets.

Movies were the dominant mass medium. Magazines were popular. Paperbacks, introduced in the US in 1939, bring cheap novels (and notably, Sci Fi anthologies) to the masses.

1940s Sci Fi Innovations

• 1940: The Justice Society of America is the first comic book superhero team
• 1940: Robin and Toro become the first teen sidekicks
• 1946: Science Fiction anthologies

1940s Mainstream Impacts on Sci Fi

Related Terms and Articles

• 1940s Radio
• 1940s Comics
• 1940s Fandom
• 1940s Literature
• 1940s Movies
• 1940s Paranormal
• 1940s Science
• 1940s Toys

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