Customer Reviews
Great purchase... last year 
2007-06-11
I'm not really going to review this product, I'm only going to tell you that there is an updated collection coming. Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer - The Complete Comic Edition It has everything this collection has, but continues through Dec. 2006, with a total of "over 575 issues" of Fantastic Four. It also includes 185 Silver Surfer issues (Aug. 1968 through Dec. 2004).
From what I've counted, the Fantastic Four from Nov. 1961 through Dec. 2006 and all annuals comes to around 569 issues. You'll notice there are at least 6 unknown comics if I've counted correctly. I hope the Giant-Size comics are included this time.
Having bought this version almost a year ago, I will buy the new version, but I thought it only fair to let everyone else know.
A Great Buy! 
2007-06-08
This disk has every Fantastic Four issue ever made, readable with the Adobe viewer. It's easy to use and magnify. These issues are NOT "proofs" from Marvel archives; they're actual scanned comics from someone's collection. As such, many pages on older issues are stained a bit, or wrinkled, or chipped, but this does not affect color and readability. It's very amusing to read the ads from the early 1960s issues: muscle-building courses, transistor radios, hypno-coins!!
The Fantastic Four was conceived, written and drawn by the magnificent team of Stan Lee/Jack Kirby. (That's why I bought this disk.) Simultaneously, they also wrote/drew/edited the Avengers, Spiderman, Hulk. I don't know how they did it, they were true geniuses. I love the Letters pages in the early issues. Stan Lee is as bombastic and hammy as ever!
BAD DVD 
2007-06-07
This DVD arrived with no data on the disk at all, the DVD had the artwork on the disk, but not a single bit of data. I can understand mistakes will happen in processing, but when I returned it, Amazon charged me $2.99 for the privilege of returning a defective product; all in all a pretty good scam- just send out defective products and get $3 for everyone who returns them.
44 Years of FF doesn't work 2007-06-04
I purchased this item and could not get it to work on my computer. It wasn't recognized. Thinking it was the disc, I purchased another one with the same problem. I emailed gitcorp support but have heard nothing back. I have other titles in this DVD series and they work fine.
dvd rom video of fantastic four comics 2007-06-02
A MUST HAVE FOR FANTASTIC FOUR AND MARVEL FANS, GREAT ART WORK OF JACK KIRBY, WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH U, GO NOW AND GET A COPY!!!! AND AT THE SAME TIME GET THE XMEN, SPIDERMAN DVD ROM VIDEOS COMICS TOO!!! ANDALE, ARRIBA, AHORITA, NO ESPERES ESTUPIDO...
This is a ripoff 2008-06-05
I bought this disc and was very happy with it. The Disc covers every FF comic from 1961 to 2004 (575 comics) plus all of the annuals and then 3 weeks later I see Amazon selling the same collection but from 1961 to 2006 plus all of the Annuals plus all of the 185 Silver Surfer comics up to 2006 for $4.00 less. Anybody want to buy a FF collection cheap.
Amazine! I cannot believe this deal!!! 2008-05-24
All the comics you had as a kid...all the ones you missed...all yours for the taking on 1 DVD! Its just an amazing deal. the scans are from real used comic books that are in great condition. The fact that they are not digitally touched up, gives it a quality like you are reading the same issues you had as a kid...a little warn and wonderful!
I guess I am going through a nostalgia period in my live and this really fills the void.
I could not even imagine how much this would cost if you bought the originals...and who needs them? (Too much clutter around the house now!)
a single DVD with everything!
OK, I went a little crazy...I bught this one first...then I bought all the DVD comic book offerings...from Spiderman to Mad Magazine!
I have it all now...and a lot of reading to catch up on!
I stopped reading comics in 1978-79..I sold all my comics to a greedy little comic book shop owner for next to nothing, and bought a weight set!
I have missed all of the 1980's,90's and 2000's
Great bye...just get it..you will not be sorry
It begins here 2008-05-02
This is where Marvel comics as we know it today really began. My main interest begins with Fantastic Four #1 in '61, and then FF #232 in '81 by John Byrne, but there are many other issues & runs I like in this collection.
Highlights here for me...
Issues 1 to 102, 108- Jack Kirby, starting in '61.
Issues 232 to 293- John Byrne, starting in '81.
Issues 296 to 309- John & Sal Buscema, starting in '86.
Issues 334 to 354- Walt Simonson, starting in '89.
It's amazing to me we get 44 years of comics on a single disc! It's interesting to see issues with Jim Lee & Heroes Reborn, as well as runs with creators like George Perez, Alan Davis, Carlos Pacheco, Salvador Larroca, Mike Wieringo, and Paul Ryan. If you're thinking about buying FF trade paperbacks and Masterworks collections, this is a great way to preview these issues *before* you buy. And as others have pointed out, while the newer edition of this software contains more content at the same list price, Amazon currently offers this 1st edition DVD at a discount, so it's still worth getting in my opinion. It's a fantastically *great* way to save time, space & money!
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.
A Fun DVD - But There is a Technical Oddity 
2007-08-27
The DVD delivers a lot of Fantastic Four fun. Even includes the comic book ads. If you are a FF comics fan you are sure to like this ... The only thing to be aware of is that, in the case of Windows-XP, you can't simply put the DVD in and watch for the opening screen to emerge. You have to boot up with the DVD already in the drive. When the boot-up is finished then you can use
Windows Explorer to view the images (The Apple Mac does not have this problem).
Great buy 2007-06-27
I enjoyed reading the comics and I loved the convenience of having them all in one place. With this many comics, I never would have had the space to store them.
However, I deducted one star, but not for content. There are much nicer comic readers out there than Adobe that they can use.
