Captain America the Complete Comic Collection Win/Mac

by GIT Corp

Product 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.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000MVP5I4
• Item model number: 90007
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 20, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,825 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Over 41 Years of Captain America (Marvel's second best known character worldwide behind Spider-Man) 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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is great, June 7, 2007

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Goodman "mistergoodman" (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Captain America the Complete Comic Collection Win/Mac (DVD-ROM)

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.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars another great release from GIT, June 12, 2007

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Martin Maenza (Hickory, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Captain America the Complete Comic Collection Win/Mac (DVD-ROM)

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).

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Includes 2007 (#24, #25). Great product!, June 10, 2007

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Josh (Reston, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Captain America the Complete Comic Collection Win/Mac (DVD-ROM)

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.