As the decades passed, comparable publications like Time and Life raised their prices, while comics stayed at 10 cents and reduced their page-count.
The first two conversions to the format — House of Mystery and Superman Family — hit the stands shortly before Christmas in 1976 and the other two expanded titles — G.I.
The Batman Family joined the fold in January and, at the dawn of the line-expanding DC Explosion in June, Adventure Comics came aboard.
One of the perks of the Explosion was the complete elimination of advertising in the Dollar Comics and the addition of wraparound covers.
The DC Explosion, sadly, became an implosion almost immediately and, within a year, the ads were back, and the page count had shrunk.
All-Out War and Time Warp were short lived series which were published entirely as Dollar Comics.