It was really just a few cities that were subject to intense fire bombing during the war, so most of them probably survived (same with the 1929 Shonen Club in Japan).
With the Shonen Clubs (I assume the Sanellas are the same) they are probably easier to find in the US than they are in their country of origin these days. Not sure if that is the result of one person buying them all up at once and shipping them over, or just a steady drift of them one by one over the years as American collectors came across them. On Ebay there are usually 2-3 copies available at any given time and they show up in auction houses too, but on Yahoo Auctions Japan (Japan`s version of Ebay) they only pop up for sale infrequently.
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