“With GIT Corp. no longer releasing the Marvel comic collections on DVD and Marvel now creating their own digital comics portal online, all the GIT Corp. Marvel DVD collections are becoming highly sought after and prices are going through the roof. But this certain collection, you can find online under $10 and it’s totally worth it!”
BOOK: MARVEL COLLECTOR’S EDITION VOL. 1 – COMIC BOOK LIBRARY
COMPANY: MARVEL COMICS/GIT CORP
Stan Lee Presents X-Men, Spider-Man, Daredevil, The Hulk.
Before they were movies, they were Marvel. And now with the Marvel Comic Book Library, you can relive the first 10 adventures of 10 classic Marvel characters on one super-powered CD-Rom. 100 complete comic books with character bios and 3 bonus comics highlight the debut and subsequent storylines of the most famous band of heroes. Also including The Fantastic Four, Captain America, Avengers, The Sub-Mariner, Iron Man and Silver Surfer.
Their first 10 stories including their debut issue!
Spider-Man (1962), The Incredible Hulk (1962), Daredevil (1964), X-Men (1975), Fantastic Four (1961), Captain America (1964), Avengers (1963), Namor the Sub-Mariner (1962), Iron Man (1963) and Silver Surfer (1966).
When it was announced that Marvel would create their own digital comics online site (pay a monthly fee), that was the nail in the coffin for GIT Corp’s popular Marvel Complete Collection.
These collections featured the complete collection from issue 1 up to their issues in 2006, including annuals digitally via Lizardtech Software’s DJVU software and Acrobat Reader (in later versions).
And now, these collector’s DVD-Rom’s have skyrocketed in price because GIT Corp. are unable to sell them anymore and with a lot of these films being released in theaters, people have interest in the classics.
Fortunately, “MARVEL COLLECTOR’S EDITION VOL. 1 – COMIC BOOK LIBRARY” is the cheaper of the Marvel releases which people can find online for under $10.
But as a fan of the classic comic book series (and having quite a large collection of comic books that I’ve had since I was a kid up to my college years), to obtain the classics, you would either read them via tradepaperback, re-release issues or what you read from your library when you were much younger.
And if you want to read a lot of these, you would have to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars if you were hardcore. Sure, now you can read them online from Marvel’s website which cost a monthly fee and you read them online.
But with GIT Corp. CD’s, you can read them without having to go online. Everything was on one DVD and it was so convenient. I literally just lay back on my bed, grab by laptop and just read these issues.
Around 2003, GIT Corp. released this collection featuring the first 10 issues of major comic book titles from Marvel.
- Avengers Issues – #1-10
- Captain America/Tales of Suspense – Issues #59-68
- Daredevil – Issues #1-10
- Fantastic Four – Issues #1-10
- The Incredible Hulk – Issues #1-6 and Tales to Astonish – Issues 60-63
- The Invincible Iron Man – Tales of Suspense – Issues #39-48
- Silver Surfer – Issues #1-10
- The Amazing Spider-Man – Issues #1-9 and Amazing Fantasy – Issue #15
- Sub Mariner/Tales to Astonish – Issues #70-79
- X-Men Issues #94-102 and Giant-Size X-Men Issue 1
You get a lot of issues, 100 comics and again, you can find this collection for under $10. That’s awesome!
To access the DVD on your PC or Mac, you need to install the viewing software included on the DVD. Then you will need to have Internet Explorer (sorry, this DVD is older and doesn’t not utilize Safari or Firefox and other browsers). You will see an HTML of all characters (as shown above) and when you click on the character, you will see the comic book covers.
By clicking on the comic covers, you will then access the software which displays the comic page. On the left hand side, you can click on the page you want to read or use the arrows above. Interesting thing is you can read the comics in black or white, see how it looks without the color and then of course, normally.
There are no ads or letter to the editor, Stan’s Soap Box or anything like that in this collection (many people requested for those to be included and they were in later comic collection versions).
The pages do have a Marvel Comics watermark in the bottom corner and if you want to print the pages out, you have that ability.
Now, I had no problems installing and viewing everything on an XP machine. It worked on my PC Laptop just fine. But as for my newer Mac, this is where things got a little problematic.
There is no Internet Explorer for newer Mac’s. Microsoft stopped making a browser for it years ago and you can’t use Firefox, Safari, Opera, Camino, etc.  And the software included is dated. So, I had to go to Lizard Tech’s Website and download the latest viewing software (note: version 4.0 is included on the DVD but the latest version for the Mac is 6.3).
Then I would have to open up the disc via the finder and go to each comic book file folder and right click to open the comic via the software. So, in other words, I had to open things up manually.
Granted, it’s not difficult but if you are not computer savvy, I can see this being problematic.
But outside of that, everything worked very well.
You really can’t beat this collection. 10 comic books of each major character. And the fact that “Daredevil” and “Sub-Mariner” will no longer be released as a collection, I highly recommend this collection.
Now granted, fans of the Mighty Thor or Ghost Rider will be wondering what about their characters and why they are not featured. I felt the same way but still for the price and for what is featured, it’s still worth the money.
My gosh, you can find this collection for $6-$10 online. The price is just so low these days for it while the other collections are going up in price (Iron Man which was $39.99 is sold for $139.99 these days).
Mac owners (especially with newer systems) may have some problems but again, if you are computer savvy, you shouldn’t have problems but if you’re not, then yeah, it will get frustrating. PC owners, should have no problems.
As for the free 3 free bonus comics, this is via subscription and I think this deal is way over. So, no need to even worry about that.
The bios for each character were quite cool to read and glad they included it on this collection.
To conclude the review, if you are a fan of the classic stories or interested in the original stories of these super heroes, this collection is worth it! Also, for the price, it’s good to check it out and see if it’s for you and if you are willing to shell out and get the other collections available.
100 classic digital comics of the top Marvel heroes for under $10. Can’t beat that! Definitely… highly recommended!
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