Why I buy this one ?
- Hobby Software; for PC, Mac
- Media Format: CD
- # Over 41 Years of Captain America comic books from Nov. 1964 thru Dec 2006.
- Over 515 complete issues including all annuals.
- Every single article including American Graffiti, Bullpen Bulletins, Pinups and all advertisements.

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"Nice, but...", UPDATE 4/20/08: AFTER USING THIS PRODUCT FOR SEVERAL DAYS, I WOULD REVISE MY RATING FROM 3 STARS TO 4. IT'S GREAT TO FINALLY READ THESE OLD ISSUES, AND ONCE I GOT READER SET UP JUST FOR READING THESE (TURNED OFF ALL TOOLBARS AND PANELS, "FIT WIDTH") IT'S ACTUALLY A PRETTY NIFTY EXPERIENCE. I STILL WISH THE PDF'S WERE SINGLE PAGES AND THAT PRINTING DIDN'T HAVE THAT AWFUL WATERMARK SMACK IN THE CENTER OF EACH PAGE. BUT OI HAVE TO ADMIT I'M ENJOYING THIS PRODUCT.

Pros:
1) 500 comics for $50 = 10 cents an issue!
2) Complete comics are scanned, so you can read ads, letters pages, etc
3) Since they're scans from real comics, they have that nice desautrated quality you get from ink printed on newsprint (as opposed to the garish colors in the Marvel Masterworks volumes which are printed on highgloss white paper.)

That said, here's why I'm only going this three stars:

Cons:
1) Even with a 17" monitor I find I need to zoom in and scroll around. It's too bad they hadn't developed a "smart panels" feature like they have at Marvel Digital Comics. But, this is basically just a DVD with 500 PDF files on it, so you're stuck using the standard Adobe Reader interface. Not bad, but no nifty navigation tools.

2) Although the files are printable, there's two problems with printing:

FIRST, they print with a big fat MARVEL watermark on the center of each page -- the watermark isn't visible on screen -- which really takes away from the image integrity. I suppose I see the need for this for copyright protection, but still, it's a drag when they advertise these on the box as "printable comics." Of course, if you have a lot of time on your hands, you can do a screen capture, paste them into Photoshop and print them out from there. But sheesh! Not that I planned to print out 500 comics, but it would've been fun to print out some of the old 60s issues.

SECONDLY, the pages are scanned as full spreads. It would have been much nicer if the PDFs were single pages (with "facing pages' turned on in Acrobat). Why do I say that? When you print out a full spread onto typing paper, the individual pages come out quite a bit smaller than a standard comic book. If the pages were separated in the PDF, each page could be printed slightly *larger* than a comic book. (Admittedly, you'd have to trim some margins for the occassional full-spread splashes.)

"Silver Age and onward -- good stuff!", GIT really did a fine job with these comic collections. Too bad Marvel is now going totally online and won't let anyone have the actual comics in hand anymore. *sigh* Oh, well -- but if you can get it used (or from GIT), go for it. It's definitely worth the money!

"complete comic collection", This DVD rom is the best way to catch up on old back issues. Of any one that collects comics you know that when you're looking of the one issue that you need to complete your collection I am the hardest one to find. But when you buy this DVD rom you get every issue of the title that it is names for.
This box contains every cap issue from the first issue featuring cap in the early 1960 to his death in the pages of civil war.
Cap is a reminder of what America should be, and should be looked at as a role motel for every one in the world


"Product cover damage", Although purchased item was delivered earlier than estimated, the product arrived with damage. Art cover was broken and squash down because Seller was not capable to pack the item in a box but rather shipped it in an envelop. Very disappointing - especially since this product could be rated as soon to be rare! Comic is great!

"Awesome!", This is the best gift I have gotten in a long time. At first I was not sure how to feel about it since, as a comic book fan, I love actually reading comics and turning the pages. But, I also like my comics to be in excellent shape, and reading them puts them at risk. Well, with this I can read them, ALL of them and won't ever have to open them if I don't want to. Besides, the amount of comics contained on the disc is incredible. I love being able to follow a story arc for 25 issues in row if I want to with out having to wait two years for the comics to come out, or running out of comics. It's really cool and I advise it strongly to those enjoy actually reading their comics.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Get all these collections", GIT is doing a great job with these Marvel Comics collections. I bought the Spider-man collection a little over a year ago. Closely followed by X-Men and Fantastic Four. In the past couple weeks I picked up The Incredible Hulk, Captain America and Avengers compilations. I'm looking forward to the Iron Man disk coming out soon. My only regret is that after I bought the FF collection they came out with a second set with more issues plus the Silver Surfer runs (I'm sure to coincide with the movie).

A few reviewers of these disks have complained that the images are just scans of original comics. All I can say is get over it. You are getting thousands of dollars worth of books for $40 or less. You couldn't have even bought the first 25 issues of the most recent run on Captain America (which finish the Captain america disk) for that. If Marvel was going to re-color and computerize their entire libraries to put on disks, I can guarantee you that they would not sell 40 years worth of a series for $40. They would probably charge that for every 3-5 years worth of the series. I think it's great that you can see these old comics along with the old ads. I'm a kid of the eighties so seeing ads for some of the old computer games is really cool. Yes, a few pages have some smudges on them, but whose comics don't - it just adds to the new age feel of cracking open your old comics that have been boxed/bagged for years.

Pros:
1) years of comics for pennies an issue
2) simple category menus: decade - year - issues

Cons:
1) If you don't have at least a 17" monitor you will likely have to scroll around the page to have it large enough to read
2) might have to wait another 40 years for the next compilation

Wish List:
1) X-Men Family = compile New Mutants, X-Force, X-Factor, X-Men & Generation X on a disk
2) Marvel Minis = Secret Wars 1 & 2, Infinity Gaultlet/War/Crusade + tie in issues, Age of Apocalypse, Civil War, Annihilation, etc...
3) Showcase = Marvel Comics Presents, Marvel Fanfare, Marvel Team-Up etc...

"These GIT releases are the best thing to happen to comics in forever!", Wow! I can't say enough good about these releases, they really are complete and fantastic. Each issue is painstakingly scanned in and ready to read. I've been buying them one at a time and reading my way through all the old comics I read as a kid during my sparetime. Keep them coming GIT!

"another great release from GIT", GIT does it again - this time giving us a thorough offering from Captain America's title. I was pleased to see it is very current - through the April 2007 issue of Cap's comic. I also enjoy seeing the early Tales of Suspense issues (with co-star Iron Man who is slated for his own DVD-ROM set later this year).

"Includes 2007 (#24, #25). Great product!", GIT did a nice job with this. As mistergoodman notes, it does indeed include all the Cap series from TOS in '64 to his death (I still hope it's not true) here in '07, plus annuals and a great bio. Definitely get this if you're a Cap fan.

The user interface uses PDF files with hyperlinks--anyone with Adobe Reader 7 will be able to use this easily. For me, reading was a challenge initially, certainly not GIT's fault. On my widescreen laptop, my highest res is 1280x800. By default Reader opens these up to fit the whole page, which is about 90% of actual size and a little hard to read, especially for the older comics. If I use the fit width setting instead, the pages are about 125% of actual and much easier to read, but there's a little bit more work to do to navigate the pages. I got used to it quickly.

"This is great", This is a pretty neat product. It's a digital collection of all of Captain America's Marvel Comics adventures, beginning with his solo adventures in Tales of Suspense (later renamed Captain America). The collection doesn't include his comics from World War II and the 1950s, back when Marvel Comics was called Timely or Atlas. Nor does it include every Captain America solo adventure Marvel ever published. It does include every issue of his regular series, however.

The collection includes over 500 issues of Captain America comics, from 1964 up until Cap's death just three months ago in Captain America Volume 5, issue 25. The packaging serves as a fitting tribute to the star spangled Avenger, with the back cover showing his shield and reading "In memory of a fallen hero." A nice DVD case is included in the package (unlike some of the earlier GIT Corp releases).

I had purchased a big new LCD monitor before I bought this collection, but I was surprised to discover the comics were also quite readable on my average sized CRT monitor at work.

There were quite a lot of great stories told in the 43 years worth of comics included in this collection. And I love the fact that the complete comics were digitized, including the ads and letters pages. All in all this is quite a good deal.