This collection consists of actual comic books that have been individually scanned and converted to PDF files. This is one of a number of such collections, all of which were an absolutely amazing value when they were first published, with hundreds of comic books, some dating back to the 1960s, available on a single DVD for one low price. Unfortunately, Marvel Comics refused to continue licensing their content to Git Corp and the collections are no longer available. Today, the DVDs are collector's items, sometimes going for hundreds of dollars. At their original publishing price, this was an incredible deal. At the prices today, when you can even find them, you should definitely think twice.
The files are not DRM (Digital Rights Management) protected, so you can copy the PDF files to your computer or laptop, even to your Kindle Fire tablet. You can also create backup DVDs to make sure that your collection always remains accessible. If you view the collections on your computer or laptop, using the Adobe official PDF viewer, everything is fine. If you view the collections on your Kindle Fire tablet, there is a semi-transparent "Marvel" watermark that will show up on every page. I've tried every PDF viewer in the Amazon App Store, including the Adobe PDF app, and they all exhibit this flaw. Once I got used to it, though, it didn't bother me much and it's handy to have a really portable way to read these files.
Each file contains one complete comic book, including the front and back covers, all of the advertisements, the letters page, and so on. The files are arranged in two-page spreads, 1100 pixels wide by 850 pixels high. I can reduce these to roughly 75% of full size and still read them. Much below that and the text becomes hard to read and the details are muddy.
For the collections that go back to the 60s and 70s, it's both nostalgic and hilarious to read some of the advertisements (Sea Monkeys! X-Ray Specs! Charles Atlas!). The scan quality in those earlier issues is surprisingly good, considering the age of each comic book. These are very readable, in very good condition.
This collection begins in 1963 with Tales of Suspense #39 (for 12 cents!) where Iron Man was first introduced. In 1964, in Tales of Suspense #59, Captain America joined Iron Man and the comic title officially became Tales of Suspense featuring Iron Man and Captain America. This continued until 1968, where issue #99 became the final Tales of Suspense issue and each hero subsequently got his own title. The Iron Man title continued through issue 332, in 1996, after which Marvel rebooted the character and restarted the issue numbering. The reboot concluded in 1997 with issue #13, with a second reboot beginning in 1998 and ending in 2004 with issue #89. There was a third reboot in 2005 and the collection concludes with issue #12 of that reboot, in 2006. In addition, the collection contains Annuals 1 through 15, Annuals 1998 through 2001, Giant-Size Iron Man #1 (from 1975), and a detailed Iron Man bio. All told, counting index files, there are 586 files to browse.
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