I've mentioned authors and artists in earlier Star Weekly Novel posts. Here I'll start looking at genres. The series lasted for 36 years and nicely lines up with the middle third of the 20th century. From the annexation of Austria into the German Reich and the discovery of fission in 1938 to Watergate and the oil shock in 1973.
It was a time when the number of readers in the US and Canada grew very fast. The post war world of increased education levels and popularity of cheap paperbacks are some of the reasons for this change. The popular fiction genres were historical, romance, crime/thriller and Westerns. I don't yet have any numbers but each is well represented among the Star Weekly Novels.
Here are three Westerns.
Boss of the OK by Brett Rider, pseudonym of Arthur Henry Gooden (1879-1971)
The Galloping Ghost by William Colt MacDonald (1891-1968)
The Big Corral by Archie Joscelyn (1899-1986)
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