Captain America the Complete Comic Collection Win/Mac

List Price: $49.95 Discount Price: $61.50

Features:

• 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.

Accessories:

Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer - Complete Comic Edition

Customer Reviews:

Product cover damage [Posted on 2008-02-25]
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!

complete comic collection [Posted on 2008-02-28]
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

Silver Age and onward -- good stuff! [Posted on 2008-04-13]
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!

Nice, but... [Posted on 2008-04-17]
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.)

The First Avenger: Captain America (2011) [Posted on 2008-06-21]
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The First Avenger: Captain America (2011)
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The Avengers Coming July 2011 From Marvel
13 June 2008 9:18 PM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor, Ant-Man and Captain America will be assembled in the latest big screen adaptation "The Avengers" to make quite possibly the highest impact Marvel Studios movie yet. Who will direct this big screen adaptation? Even though a Director has not been officially selected, director Jon Favreau (Iron Man) tells MTV that the film is "a great idea" and that he would consider directing the film. Finding the appropriate cast and crew may not be the main concern. [...]

Brian Corder
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Marvel chief discusses 'Captain America'
24 May 2008 12:02 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Marvel's upcoming The First Avenger: Captain America will be a World War II period piece, according to Sci Fi Wire. The studio's president Kevin Feige revealed that the film, scheduled for a May 6, 2011 release, will lead into the Avengers movie, following six weeks later. In the comic book series, the Captain America character was an experimental soldier for the Us during World War II. He was later frozen in suspended animation and then revived by superhero team the (more)

By Simon Reynolds
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McConaughey An Odd Choice For Captain America
6 May 2008 7:01 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Matthew McConaughey is among the favourites to land the leading role in Marvel's upcoming Captain America movie, according to reports.

The Sahara star is an early leader in the race to don the patriotic red, white and blue suit for the 2011 movie.

But website CinemaBlend.com insists McConaughey is only one of the actors Marvel bosses are considering for the role.

MovieBlend.com also offers a critique of the movie star as Captain America, suggesting he'd be a "strange choice".

The website reports, "Though he's made a lot of movies, there's still been no real evidence that Matthew can really act. Aside from his questionable acting ability, there's also his public persona as a rarely bathed, pot smoking slacker.

"The McConaughey we've all come to know embodies just about everything that Captain America isn't."
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McConaughey An Odd Choice For Captain America
6 May 2008 6:58 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Matthew McConaughey is among the favourites to land the leading role in Marvel's upcoming Captain America movie, according to reports.

The Sahara star is an early leader in the race to don the patriotic red, white and blue suit for the 2011 movie.

But website CinemaBlend.com insists McConaughey is only one of the actors Marvel bosses are considering for the role.

MovieBlend.com also offers a critique of the movie star as Captain America, suggesting he'd be a "strange choice".

The website reports, "Though he's made a lot of movies, there's still been no real evidence that Matthew can really act. Aside from his questionable acting ability, there's also his public persona as a rarely bathed, pot smoking slacker.

"The McConaughey we've all come to know embodies just about everything that Captain America isn't."
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Showbiz Stock Watch: Marvel Announces Earnings; Plus 'Iron Man 2,' Thor, Captain America and Avengers Are On the Way in the Next Three Years!
5 May 2008 11:04 AM, PDT | From fantasymoguls.com | See recent Fantasy Moguls news

Marvel Studios is already reaping the benefits of its first ever self-financed comic book adaptation, Iron Man (Paramount). Not only did the near-perfectly-reviewed Robert Downey Jr. film open to the all-time second-best three-day take for a non-sequel, with just over $100 million, but Marvel also announced today that the company has blown out analyst earnings expectations for the first quarter of 2008.

Steve Mason

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