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PERFECTLY AWESOME

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It has all the issues, every page, perfect quality. You cant complain there, the price is low compared to that. Your only problem will be the boring and long beginning issues.

Flaws: ugly interface, for 50 bucks I could definitely have created a more satisfying menu for the costumers

the cross overs will be tough to follow, since it's techincaly 40 years of UNCANNY X-men. But whatever. Still they couldve done better.

Really, though. SO worth it!

Let your money speak for you and buy this so there will be more!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

How do you review the coolest thing in the world? The art and the writing speak for themselves and they are wonderful! All I have to say is I hope they keep making these amazing cd-roms They are perfect, easy to store and easy to read. Everynight after a hard day of work I love to curel up with a cup of tea and my x-men comic. My advice is please buy this and speak loud and clear to Marvel and the company who produces these that we want more of them. I hope other company's get the hint too and produce their titles in this way it's just so perfect and easy to store!

It's a great deal

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a great way to save time, space & money. One important note: it doesn't include the newer X-Men series started in '91 by Lee & Claremont. I'm looking for X-Men the Complete Collection hopefully in the future. Until then, I still like this.

Highlights here for me...
Issues 1 to 11- Jack Kirby, starting in '63.
Giant-Size X-Men #1- Len Wein & Dave Cockrum in '75.
Issues 108 to 143- John Byrne, starting in '77.
Issues 248 to 277 (skips some issues)- Jim Lee, starting in '89.
Issues 325 to 350- Joe Madureira, starting in '95.

If you're looking to buy trade paperbacks or hardcover X-Men material, this is an economical way to see before you buy. It's also an excellent chance to see various creators' work on these popular characters throughout the years. Definitely recommended.

P.S. I had technical difficulties with the Avengers version of this software by GITCorp. I include the problem here just in case it helps someone. Some people will only be able to see the 1960s folder. My computer is running both Windows 2000 & XP. In Windows 2000, I couldn't for the life of me get my computer to see more than that 1st folder. It's as if that's *all* that's on the disc. Gitcorp thinks CD packet writing software on a person's computer will interfere with the way the disc is viewed, so they recommend uninstalling packet writing software like Roxio to see if that'll help. It didn't. I tried rebooting in Safe Mode, uninstalling programs, reinstalling programs: nothing I tried could make the disc readable. Switching to XP though "fixed" the problem immediately. In my Windows XP installation, this DVD's contents were easily readable. Sure enough, the *entire* contents were now there. I should note that I don't use Roxio or Nero software in XP, so if XP users are having this problem, that might be it. I *only* experienced this issue with Windows 2000.

The problem is in the way the disc was made. All the content is really there, but some computers can't read more than the first folder, so you might think that's all that's on the disc. Getting a replacement disc won't help: all copies of the Avengers gitcorp made are like this: viewable on some computers, not on others. Many people just take this disc to another computer and copy its contents there. You can copy onto CDs, DVDs, hard drives, etc. and then bring that info back to your original computer.

X marks the spot for an awesome collection

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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!

A perfect gift for the comic book fan who has almost everything

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My husband loved this as a gift. He is a long-time comic book fan and this gave him an opportunity to read some of the very first editions that are way before his time. They look amazing on the computer, plus you can print if you want. (with 15,000+ pages I can't imagine why you'd want to) I was concerned about Mac compatibility, but since the thing is just a PDF interface, you just need Acrobat, no special Windows-only software. We're looking to pick up the Spiderman collection next.

Nice read

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It is just as it says. A pdf scan of all comics. It's really neat to read some of these again. Great value and good entertainment.

like constant glare on your tv! aaargh!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: February 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i have been an x-men fan since the 70's. i love marvel. i love the x-men. i completely understand the need for copyright protections. however, trying to read the comics on this dvd-rom is nothing short of irritating. yes, you can mess around with your acrobat or preview (mac) settings to make all the pages display right but in the end you have to try not to be completely distracted by the big ole "MARVEL" watermark right in the middle of every page...every PHOTOCOPIED page. honestly, it's like trying to watch your favorite movie on a VERY sunny day with a big open window directly across from the tv screen! as a devotee of john byrne's art it has ,sadly, really limited my enjoyment of this product.

Not exactly wonderful

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this in part just to have the 1960s and 1990s issues since I have a good run of X-Men collected from about 1976 through to about 1987 starting with Giant Size No. 1, in fact this dvd cost me roughly the same as my copy of that comic book, which i bought sometime in 1980.

I have a nice new 24" iMac so the double page spreads of pdf files look gorgeous. You have to use the Adobe Reader or else a Marvel watermark appears, but Adobe Reader is of course free to download so only a minor hassle for those who normally use Apple's Preview for pdf files.

The interface is not the most elegant of designs and is a very simple pdf file with a set of hyperlinks. I have seen some of the various shareware programs for reading scanned comic books and those interfaces are more appealing and user friendly. But most people shopping here at Amazon probably are interested like me in getting a legal copy and not a torrent so the issue may be moot.

The dvd includes a bio section but this is slow to load off the dvd and is not much faster when copied to the Mac. I have a 2.8GHz processor. I put it in my PC laptop with a 1.73GHZ processor and oh my was it slow. How useful this section is given that the information is available on the web is debatable. The comics though load much faster than the bio and sometimes a bit to fast so I have to be very careful when paging through.

So if you want to read and enjoy old X-Men it may be better to buy the bricks available. For me I wanted a reference collection that will not take up space. Its ok and does the job I need.

40 Years of UNCANNY X-Men

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is an awesome collection of my favorite comic ever. While the product description listed how many issues were included, it simply said "X-Men" (which is the 1991-present title NOT included on this DVD-ROM) as opposed to Uncanny X-Men, which is the title that is included, so it is not "every X-Men comic ever printed". Overall, I'm very satisfied with this collection.

Watermarking...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: January 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great value. I'm really glad there is a legitimate way of getting all the copies of xmen.

The only con is that every page is watermarked with the Marvel logo, and its not small. A 3rd of the page is covered in a the logo. It is transparent but it still takes away from the overall quality of the experiance. If you're and x-fan its not a deal breaker but it is still annoying.

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