While the series received good reviews and featured guest artwork from comic book icons such as Curt Swan and Gil Kane, sales for the Golden Age-inspired series slowed as it went on, as darker, more intense comic book stories had become more popular by the 1990s than the Marvel Family's more light-hearted adventures. The book was cancelled with issue #47 in March 1999 (issue #1,000,000 was published in November 1998 as part of the "DC One Million" event, giving the main series a total of 48 issues published). One "Annual" was also published in 1996, bringing the total number of issues to 49.