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Dollar Comics
Dollar Comics was a line of DC Comics comic book publications issued from 1977 to 1983. They included the titles ''Superman Family'', ''House of Mystery'', ''G.I. Combat'', ''World's Finest Comics'', ''Batman Family'', and ''Adventure Comics''; as well as the series of specials with the umbrella title of ''DC Special Series''. Dollar Comics were notable for costing $1, having 64 pages, and being advertising-free.
== History ==
According to then-DC publisher Jenette Kahn, comics' price-per-page value had been declining since the "Golden Age." When superhero comics debuted in the late 1930s, they featured 64 pages of art for 10¢. As the decades passed, comparable publications liked ''Time'' and ''Life'' raised their prices, while comics stayed at 10 cents and reduced their page-count. Finally in 1962, National Periodical Publications/DC raised its price to 12¢, a 20% increase.〔Kahn, Jenette. "And Now... Still Another Message of Untold Importance from our Prolific Publisher!!" ''Superman'' #310 (April 1977).〕 (Comparable magazines, in contrast, were by then 3.5-to-5 times their original price.) By 1977, even though the typical price of a comic book was 35¢, it still lagged far behind its magazine competition, thus decreasing its appeal for newsvendors〔 (which at that point — before the generalized 1980s shift to direct market distribution — was still the dominant retailing location for comics). Thus, the idea for Dollar Comics was born.
Writing for the Silver Bullet Comic Books website, John Wells detailed Dollar Comics' history:
Most Dollar Comics titles began as traditional format books and expanded to the Dollar Comic format. ''All-Out War'' and ''Time Warp'' were short lived series which were published entirely as Dollar Comics. Several anniversary issues such as ''Action Comics'' #500 and ''The Flash'' #300 were also in the format as were the DC annuals for 1982 and 1983.
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