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Holistic Guidance - Captain America the Complete Comic Collection Win/Mac
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List Price: $49.95
Our Price: $61.75
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Git Corporation
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: GIT Corp
EAN: 0791149900077
Feature: Hobby Software; for PC, Mac
Format: DVD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Git Corporation
Manufacturer: Git Corporation
Model: 90007
Platform: Mac OS X Intel
Publisher: Git Corporation
Release Date: 2007-05-08
Studio: Git Corporation
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Features
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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.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Captain America: The Complete Collection lets you experience the amazing adventures of Captain America, the Sentinel Of Liberty! During World War II, a skinny&sickly teenager named Steve Rogers was rejected by the Army. Desperate to fight the Nazis, he volunteered for a dangerous top-secret project: Operation Rebirth. The experiment turned small, weak Steve Rogers into America's first super-soldier. He fought the Axis for years, but was thought dead in an Arctic explosion. His enhanced body survived&was actually frozen in suspended animation; he was thawed out decades later&entered a country he no longer understood, but continued to defend against the menaces threatening liberty&democratic principles. This collection lets you revisit and relive Cap's great adventures. It covers every issue of Captain America from 1964 to 2006 -- over 500 comics in all!
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Nice, but...
Comment: 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.)
Customer Rating:
Summary: Silver Age and onward -- good stuff!
Comment: 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!
Customer Rating:
Summary: complete comic collection
Comment: 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
Customer Rating:
Summary: Product cover damage
Comment: 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!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Awesome!
Comment: This is the best gift I have gotten in a long time. At first I was not sure how to feel about it since, as a comic book fan, I love actually reading comics and turning the pages. But, I also like my comics to be in excellent shape, and reading them puts them at risk. Well, with this I can read them, ALL of them and won't ever have to open them if I don't want to. Besides, the amount of comics contained on the disc is incredible. I love being able to follow a story arc for 25 issues in row if I want to with out having to wait two years for the comics to come out, or running out of comics. It's really cool and I advise it strongly to those enjoy actually reading their comics.
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