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| Captain America the Complete Comic Collection Win/Mac | 
 enlarge | From: Git Corporation
Category: Software
Buy New: $139.95
New (2) Used (2) from $79.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 2294
Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X Intel, Windows Xp, Mac Os X
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 4 x 4 x 0.5
MPN: 90007
Model: 90007
UPC: 791149900077
EAN: 0791149900077
ASIN: B000MVP5I4
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Get all these collections September 18, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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! June 14, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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 June 12, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
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! June 10, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
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 June 7, 2007
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
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.
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