Civil War: The Complete Collection [Old Version]

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Includes all original advertisements,Printable

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing value at the original price
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2014
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 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 contains 199 issues split into three categories:

Road to Civil War - including issues from the Hulk, She-Hulk, New X-Men, Black Panther, Daredevil, Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man, and Fantastic Four. Most of these are one-shots or, at most, two or three issues.

Civil War - including issues from, well, everyone, including the main Civil War mini-series. There are simply too many heroes and teams to list.

The Initiative - Again, issues from just about every title. This was a major followup to the Civil War series.
Charles K. Johnson
3.0 out of 5 stars I am not sure what came with it and after ...
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2018
I am not sure what came with it and after a few years and still wondering what I got and should have gotten. It was not Marvel Comics "Civil War."
Sir Ratesabunch
5.0 out of 5 stars Stupid Story, Great Art
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2010
Now hang with me for a minute, because this might get confusing. GitCorp here is getting the 5 star review, not Marvel and the Cold War event. Here's why.

The only true highlight to me in this series is Wolverine's quest. Otherwise, it is a godawful Marvel event with character assassination of just about every major Marvel character on the part of the editors and writers. The five minute long Senate hearing in Iron Man 2 is better than the entire mess of this thing, and it deals with the exact same issue.

Here's the thing: comics are escapist fantasy. We want to see them fly around and blow crap up and beat on ultra tough baddies and wear silly costumes and the works. Who in their right minds thought that this entire metatheme needed to be brought into the real world? Who went out of their way to screw up comics for us? After you tether them to the real world and try to stop them from doing what we love, what's the point in continuing to read them? Marvel royally screwed up here.

The only other praise I will give it is that I love the art to death. It's marvelous (see what I did there?).

GitCorp's scans are of the highest quality, and it includes both the main event and all the tie-in comics as well. This is an enormous collection! I have just about every Marvel collection of scans GitCorp put out, and am very sad to see them discontinue their line of products because of Marvel.

I'll proclaim from the mountain top that GitCorp's products are well worth the money.

Even if you hated this Marvel event, I would still recommend it for the series of Wolverine comics in here alone. And if you like looking at great artwork.
F. W. Keyser
5.0 out of 5 stars Back in production -- Great
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2010
I had meant to buy this collection when it first came out, But GIT stopped making them after only a short time, and the used ones started selling to $100+ -- no thank you. Now that they are back in normal prodution and at a reasonable price I find it's a great complilation of a fascinating story line in the Marvel Universe. Unlike the Spider man and X-men collections, that give you all of the central title, but none of the "spin off" titles that you had to have to read a coherent story line -- all of the necessary titles are here to carry you through the story arc. -- Nice job!

Fredrick Keyser
keith keisler
5.0 out of 5 stars take up less space than all of those comics
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2021
its cheaper than buying all those comics
Glen Takao Nakashima
3.0 out of 5 stars GREAT SELLER but this product was not as depicted and ...
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2017
DVD bought was not in original packaging and missing Outside box and Collection documentation describing set.
Returned set and seller was prompt in refunding money......GREAT SELLER but this product was not as depicted and expected.
Thom Carey
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great, complete collection
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2009
I bought this as a gift. I received a phone call from the recipient and received lots of thank yous and how great it was to have all the comic issues on a DVD. He said it was easy to use and the colors were great. If you're a comic person and missed the 'Civil War' series, get this!
Sean Hoade
5.0 out of 5 stars A strong collection
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2008
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!

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