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| Amazing Spider-Man Complete Comic Book Collection Win/Mac | 
 enlarge | From: Git Corporation
Category: Software
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $33.93
You Save: $16.06 (32%)
New (5) from $33.93
Avg. Customer Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 261
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Me, Mac Os X, Windows Xp, Windows 2000
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 1.4
MPN: 100722
Model: 90004
UPC: 791149900046
EAN: 0791149900046
ASIN: B000HKIM7Q
Release Date: October 9, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 One wonderful collection with one big caveat January 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I received the ASM collection for Christmas, and I am in heaven. I followed Spidey back in the 60s and 70s, but quit reading somewhere around ASM121 - true fans will understand why. I'd always wanted to find out what happened in the last 30 years, especially with the movies coming out, but had no practical way of doing so.
Now I have. The files are regular pdf files, so you can read them anywhere. The scans are excellent.
Now the caveat. Yes, this is every issue of Amazing Spider Man, and until the 90s it's all you would need. However more and more as I read I'm finding out that a story started in Amazing Spider Man will have part two in the Peter Parker magazine (not included in this collection), part three in Spider Man magazine (not included in this collection), and the finale in Amazing Spider Man. So while you'll get the gist of the action, you'll miss, say, large parts of the Clone Saga.
But don't let that discourage you. Between this collection and Wiki, you'll figure out what's going on.
An incredible value for your money, and I'm planning on getting the Fantastic Four collection next.
N.B.: After I wrote this review, I hit the 2001 issues. I take all the negative comments back. You can tell when Strazinski starts writing, and the last four years of this collection is worth the whole price.
 Spiderman January 8, 2008
This product was delivered quickly and safely. The product was everything I hoped it would be and more.
awesome spider-man December 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This cd rocks! It's really cool. I already knew the origin of spider-man but I really enjoyed the stories in a comic book text. I promise I will read more of it when I can.
question September 30, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am thinking about buying this for my boyfriend for christmas because he is a total spider-man fan. Is it in color?
Convenience good, scans bad. September 28, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I really can't give this many Spider-man comics all tucked away in one DVD anything less than 4 stars. This convenience is probably why you are considering buying this and reading my review. All the comics are scanned in as double page spreads, adds and all. Since the scans were made two pages at a time, the comic spread open on its staples on the scanning bed, sometimes one of the pages is crooked as the comic didn't open neatly. Not really a big deal as no one reads a comic opened perfectly flat anyway. The comics are read in Adobe Reader, and if your monitor is 13" wide or more you can read the comics at actual size (in full screen mode).
So far so good. If GIT left well enough alone they'd have a perfect product (missing the Giant Sizes of the mid 70s unfortunately). However, it was decided to "clean-up" the old issues by brightening the backgrounds until they were super-white (even when the originals were fresh off the press they weren't this white), which results in significant color fading and color loss, not to mention that nobody enjoys looking into a bright white computer screen- it tires the eyes. Matters are made worse by applying an unsharp mask filter indiscriminately to every page, which creates some bizarre effects with the benday dot patterns. I would much rather they just left the scans alone. What we are left with are faded and grainy versions of the originals.
I could mention that, over 40 years, every Spider-man reprint has been botched in some way, but actually there are decent CBR files being exchanged around the Internet that are superior in quality to these scans, though you don't get all the adds, and the early Ditkos are not from the originals like they are on this set. So if you want every page and add from Spider-man #1 you'll have to get this disc, which comes in a colorful, gatefolded cardboard box that has no function whatsoever.
Don't go thinking they'll let you save any of these pages as jpegs. They're read only.
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