Captain America the Complete Comic Collection Win/Mac Reviews

• This is great

  
  By A2IZ02AV9W6XFE on 2007-06-07
  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.
  
  
  
  

• Includes 2007 (#24, #25). Great product!

  
  By A1CNRMNUS2F2TS on 2007-06-10
  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.
  
  

• another great release from GIT

  
  By A35RDX6W4CINQ9 on 2007-06-12
  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).
  
  

• Get all these collections

  
  By A4EHN3OSG2NLW on 2007-09-18
  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!

  
  By A1E1QV3RXW6WC7 on 2007-06-14
  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!
  
  
• Captain America throws his mighty shield!
  By AQVBO2VC6O5IB on 2007-10-02
  Every issue of my fave, Captain America. I can't really complain can I? It's pretty awesome to have all of these in one place even if it's not anywhere near the experience of reading the real thing. However, if you don't have zillion bucks to shell out for all the originals, this is the next best thing. I love that they are scanned cover to cover (ads included!) and you also get the full Tales of Suspense including Iron Man. I've read complaints about the DVDs on PCs but I've had absolutely no problems on my Mac. If you have Acrobat Reader, you're good to go. So when can we get the Mighty Thor?
  
  
• Captain America's Legacy
  By A2L6DAMYIYGTL3 on 2007-10-30
  This collection, as well as the collections for the other Marvel characters is simply astounding. Not only do you get every Captain America Comic from 1964 to the infamous Captain America Vol V issue 25 Death of a Dream, you get them with the original ads intact, plus the few annuals cap had. This is really a dealand I would highly recommend it to any comuic book fan wanting to catch up on the comic book.
  
  
• Captian America the complete comic collection
  By AE9TL706ZSHZ8 on 2007-11-24
  If you can get this collection do not hesitate. I am really glad I found these products before it was too late. Because Marvel is going to rent there digital comics on there website they did not renew the contract with GIT corp and after the end of the year, no more will be made.
  
  
• Captain America dvd-rom
  By A1OBN43GKFNXAJ on 2008-01-08
  I love these comic dvd-roms! As a kid, I collected comics. I took a 10 year break and these collections brought me back. It's a cheap way to read your favorite titles. My only wish is that they continue to make more titles available. Make Mine Marvel!
  
  
• Tales of a true American Hero
  By A1NMIA7KXBYW56 on 2008-01-15
  I read these comics when I was growing up. It is really great to be able to read all of the stories from start to finish. The format is good, it looks good on my laptop screen. It takes up very little physical space which makes a big difference in my household. The price is very reasonable for what you get. All in all a very nice product. I would give it 6 stars if I could.
  
  

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