Marvel Comics goes digital!

I used to be a comic book collector in my younger years. I absolutely loved comics and used to spend a big chunk of my monthly salary on buying comics to grow my collection. I mostly had DC Comics and Marvel Comics. Marvel just scored BIG brownie points by releasing thousands of their print comics online. And not even some digitalized remake of the original, but the quality is damn near the original state.

I think it is kind of sad that today’s kids don’t have much of the comic magic that we used to have. It simply became too expensive to buy new comics @ approx. R40.00 per new comic here in Africa. Nobody really stock them either, so finding comics these days are very hard. When you do find the occasional stack of comic books, you can forget about building up a nice series as there are no constant stream of running issues.

For only $5 per month, you can have access to thousands of comics and titles. Much more affordable! A great, GREAT move. Now we only hope that DC Comics follow suit and do the same. Comic heaven on earth! They released 250 free samples, so go check it out!

2 Comments to "Marvel Comics goes digital!"

• Andrew said: On 11/16/2007 at 7:08 am

  I’m really intrigued by this, but I’ve just had a look at it and the browsing via a flash applet just doesn’t feel right. This is definitely a move in the right direction and I can also only hope that DC gets in line and also joins in.

  About a month ago or so, I stumbled onto something really interesting - have a look at this…
  Complete runs of Mad Magazine, Spiderman, Iron Man, X-Men and a few others - in PDF nogal!

• Stii said: On 11/20/2007 at 10:11 pm

  Hey Andrew, that PDF option ain’t half bad! A good price for a full range. Sheesh, worth it for sure!

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