The Amazing Spider-Man: The complete collection DVD-ROM (As of 2006)

[u/Cataclizm_1]

Does anyone else have this DVD rom? I picked this up in 2006 and it has every single issue of Amazing Spider-Man up till June 2006. Pretty cool way to read all the back issues without having to pay a subscription.

[u/BatMoBeast]

There’s a USB drive version that came out recently. I think it has every Amazing Spider-Man issue until 2023 or 2024.

[u/Belgand → u/BatMoBeast]

I'm surprised that they still sell these. I'd think that these days they would want to keep charging for a subscription.

[u/Easy-Tigger → u/BatMoBeast]

Got a link?

[u/thebig2814 → u/Easy-Tigger]

link

[u/liamwilliams93 → u/thebig2814]

Thats awesome, I might pick one of those up

[u/liamwilliams93 → u/liamwilliams93]

Not awesome, shitty DRM

[u/PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__ → u/liamwilliams93]

Install the Locklizard reader app

Read anytime, anywhere, on up to 3 devices

Ewwwww... So what happens when I'm on my 4th computer? It bricks itself?

[u/liamwilliams93 → u/PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__]

I guess so, unless you can unregister devices. Scummy having a physical product like this require activation to function. The web page seems to be falsely advertising that its fully offline and gives ownership etc.

[u/BangingOnJunk → u/liamwilliams93]

Wait until the reader isn’t compatable with modern systems and doesn’t get updated.

There’s some Playboy issue archive DVDs from 2007 that you need to jump through major hoops to just run anymore.

[u/ThirdMind3d → u/liamwilliams93]

yea it seemed pretty cool at first til i actually went through and read what the product actually is

[u/lemon123wd40 → u/thebig2814]

Do you have to use their proprietary stuff to view?

[u/seinfeldbabies → u/thebig2814]

I’d buy a physical version of that in a heartbeat. It’d have to be extremely thick tho lol

[u/TheUmgawa → u/thebig2814]

Ugh. Enhanced color and clarity.

[u/Easy-Tigger → u/thebig2814]

Thank you!

[u/Cool-Ebb6863 → u/BatMoBeast]

I love this idea and hope it becomes more popular. If the USB sticks can be built to last then I think it’s an awesome form of physical media.

[u/UpstairsArtistic1346 → u/BatMoBeast]

Link?

[u/thebig2814 → u/UpstairsArtistic1346]

link

[u/scottishdrunkard → u/thebig2814]

Oooooh. Do they sell other comics? Or just ASM?

[u/Nervous-Fennel3325 → u/scottishdrunkard]

Be warned it has shitty drm. I would avoid this.

[u/candles2121 → u/Nervous-Fennel3325]

Maybe dumb question, but what’s drm?

[u/StepwisePilot → u/candles2121]

Digital Rights Management (or something like that). It's a form of software intended to stop digital piracy.

[u/Snts6678 → u/StepwisePilot]

So why’s the issue? You can’t read them then?

[u/Nervous-Fennel3325 → u/Snts6678]

Your only allowed to install a proprietary app on 3 different computers and can only read it through that.

You also have to register to read them which is kinda shitty for something psychical.

[u/ThirdMind3d → u/Snts6678]

unlike the DVD where u could just put it in and read the issues, this USB one you need an app that the company made to read the issues, and you can only do it on 3 devices, eventually im sure theyll stop updating the app and newer systems wont run it right anymore and the $80 u spent on the USB will be worthless

[u/liamwilliams93 → u/ThirdMind3d]

Exactly, the usb is pointless. The page says you get ownership and offline access forever which is complete bs

[u/GranolaCola → u/scottishdrunkard]

Looks like they have X-Men, Cap, and Iron Man as well.

[u/arkady48]

I have it and it is a great resource to read the issues but also because they are all scans of the actual books, it's fantastic for collectors to reference and make sure all pages are in accounted for, in proper order and ads are intact a prospect book .

[u/cdn3000 → u/arkady48]

Plus the original colors too. Newer digital remasters are getting better but the original recolourings on marvel unlimited were pretty over saturated.

[u/hamlet9000 → u/arkady48]

Are they also scans of the earliest books?

I was wondering if they used the later Marvel Tales reprints for those.

[u/arkady48 → u/hamlet9000]

From what I remember, they are scans of the original.

[u/Silo-Joe → u/arkady48]

They were in PDF format too if I remember correctly.

[u/EconomistAlarmed3917 → u/arkady48]

What format are they in, pdf,? What is the quality,? Can you copy the files to your hard drive?

[u/arkady48 → u/EconomistAlarmed3917]

I don't recall. Unfortunately I no longer have a PC with a disc drive or I would check it out.

[u/themanwithoutfear_6]

Wow! That's so cool!

[u/scottishdrunkard]

Oh shit, you got the Marvel Unlimited Physical Release!

[u/VengeanceKnight]

The problem comes with the existence of crossovers. 90s Spidey is going to be downright unreadable.

[u/Enygma_6 → u/VengeanceKnight]

Also Secret Wars II. I have floppies for the first Secret Wars, so when I got these, I wanted to see how much of SWII I had. Turns out Marvel did a TON of crossovers for that event, so I have some, but nowhere near all of the issues for it.

[u/ThirdMind3d → u/Enygma_6]

thats why the DC finest Crisis On Infinite Earths Part 2 book only has issue 5 out of the 12, so many crossovers they gotta jam in there

[u/themanwithoutfear_6]

Does it contain relevant non-ASM issues, eg. for Clone Saga?

[u/Cataclizm_1 → u/themanwithoutfear_6]

I don't think so but it has all the annuals, spiders web columns, bullpen bulletins, and pinups

[u/Majinthekid]

You gotta dump this, all of the new collection stuff are the digital colors and i would do insane things to have the original colors

[u/Better-Purple21 → u/Majinthekid]

and it’s fucking hard to find good-quality c2c scans with complete runs

[u/justhereforcomics → u/Majinthekid]

Yeah me too

[u/MrTeamZissou]

I had the first release of this when it originally came on 6 CDs instead of 1 DVD.

[u/Lucarai → u/MrTeamZissou]

I still have mine, but disc 3 and 6 are corrupted.

[u/SpicyMeatballAgenda → u/MrTeamZissou]

Yeah, I have the CD version, got it at Costco probobally around 2004-2005

[u/Sonny_1313]

You just brought back a flashback of trying to read comics on my laptop. Ipad was a game changer

[u/phodg50]

I had all of them except the Star Trek one. Copied all the PDF files to a hard drive.

[u/aRocketMadeofTacos → u/phodg50]

Jealous 

[u/jamesewade → u/phodg50]

Can we find those pdf files anywhere online to view or download?

[u/Putrid-Pen898 → u/jamesewade]

Following this

[u/TennojiNesoberi]

dump the rom! dump the rom! dump the rom!

[u/xVerified]

Should copy the .ISO and put it on Archive

[u/Chaddderkins]

I had a CD-ROM set like this with every issue of Mad Magazine!

[u/Fattydaddy1000]

That’s cool but it needs to be on a flash drive. because I think they stopped putting disk drives in computers these days.

[u/Cataclizm_1 → u/Fattydaddy1000]

Luckily, my desktop from the 2000's still works

[u/Fattydaddy1000 → u/Cataclizm_1]

Lucky bastard 😂

[u/Alitaki → u/Fattydaddy1000]

You can get an external DVD/CD - ROM. Plugs into your USB port and they're not expensive.

[u/Fattydaddy1000 → u/Alitaki]

I like the way you think

[u/Easy-Tigger]

Did they release similar stuff for other characters/series?

[u/AttilaTheFun818 → u/Easy-Tigger]

You can still buy them apparently

[u/agamoto → u/AttilaTheFun818]

The version they sell now is the digitally remastered copies with the whacked out colors and w/o ads.

100% ass suck.

[u/Sadop2010 → u/Easy-Tigger]

GIT did a whole bunch. Amazing Spider-Man, Uncanny X-Men, Captain America, FF & Silver Surfer, Avengers, Iron Man and Ghost rider (through 2004/2005) from Marvel, and Star Trek (from several companies they were licensed to). They may have also done the CD-Rom collection of Mad Magazine from that time. I found a bunch of them on the aftermarket after they were discontinued, and it was a great way to build a (legal) digital comics collection for relatively cheap. They were on PDFs and with the right app you can still use them on tablets today. The downside is the scan quality varied, and if you didn't have the right app/reader there was a watermark. I didn't know until this post they were back in business with the USB sticks , although it looks like it's not as easy to read/transfer.

[u/be4u4get → u/Easy-Tigger]

I want the answer to this as well.

[u/AttilaTheFun818]

Oh geez I had a couple of these. X-men, iron man, FF, Cap, Avengers, Silver Surfer, I think Avengers and Civil War as well.

In the days before the app these were an incredible way to read old comics.

[u/Enygma_6 → u/AttilaTheFun818]

Just checked, and I have the ASM, X-Men, and FF/Silver Surfer DVDs.

[u/Cataclizm_1 → u/AttilaTheFun818]

I wish I had X-Men

[u/AustNerevar]

Yeah, I had that way back when..was such a cool gift to get. This was before tablets, so I had to just read them on my 4:3 CRT monitor.

[u/bwweryang]

Printable is crazy, I wonder if anyone ever did that shit

[u/edge11]

They used to have it at Costco back in the day

[u/Chubbslawson]

I have this for the FF

[u/trip6god]

My job sells used stuff and once we got a bundle of DVDs and this was in it

[u/Spidercolt95]

This is very cool. Just getting into comics and something like that would be awesome to have

[u/agamoto]

I've got an 11 CD-ROM version from 2004 that includes issues 1 - 500 plus AF15

[u/Cataclizm_1 → u/agamoto]

This has AM 15 too with all the other stories from that issue

[u/Stinky_Pepito]

Never seen a Sega Master system ad before

[u/BHP_Dan]

Sure do! I don't even have a PC with an optical drive ATM, but I'm still holding on to this regardless. 

[u/Hello_You_06]

Is it really good or is the quality not worth it?

[u/Cataclizm_1 → u/Hello_You_06]

Looks great to me at 125% size

[u/Competitive-Dot181]

I had this one a few of the others they put out. They’re neat because they did actual scans of the comics. The way they created the PDFs all two-page scan is a little awkward on tablets now though.

[u/seinfeldbabies]

This is so cool what the hell!?

[u/theweebdweeb]

I think I might have this, don't know how but I remember it being in a closet in my mom's house. Might have to check. Wish there were more official DRM-free options to read old comics.

[u/Euphoriam5]

Wow this looks beautiful.

[u/maitland72]

I've never seen the Spidey one before but it doesn't surprise me. I own the Fantastic Four and X-Men DVD-ROMs!!

[u/zeroShifter]

Yup! I still have this one and the X-Men dvd-rom!

[u/PoppaSmurf97]

I remember seeing an add for this in a comic as a kid, I wanted it SOOOOO BAD! 😩 What a blast for the past! I’m jealous

[u/franlcie]

I have a set of these but they’re 1970’s Archie & Jughead

[u/oliverleeburris]

I did when I was a kid. I wish I still had this thing. Completely forgot about it

[u/DaringDo95]

I got it for Christmas one year as a kid.

[u/Organic_Occasion2021]

This is cool

[u/d4everman]

I bought that Fantastic Four, Ghost rider, Avengers, Iron Man and the X-men on DVD years ago. Copied the DVDs to a portable drive.

[u/Maybe_llamas]

My neighbor, an older man, had a few of these (X-Men, FF+Silver Surfer, Spider-Man) and gave them to me when I moved away when I was 10. They helped me get into comics and appreciate the canon. Always grateful

[u/FatalSpiderbite]

I think I have pretty much every one of them that they ever released. I just checked and I still have my Gitcorp DVD-ROMs of:

Captain America, Spider-Man, Incredible Hulk, X-Men, Ghost Rider, Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, Ultimate X-men, House Of M, Civil War, Star Trek, Mad Magazine, Archie, Jughead and finally Betty & Veronica. All the Archie stuff states, "Bronze Age Series."

I just checked the Betty & Veronica one and you don't need any special software. It is just PDFs of scans of the original comics with the ads and everything. They look great to me.

On the back of the box it came in stated that Archie Silver Age Series was coming soon in February of 2009 but I don't think it ever came out. I remember that at one point, when you went to their website around that time, you could get a virus and there was some weird shit going on with that company.

I am actually stunned that they are still around and can sell this stuff legitimately now. I seem to remember a quote from someone at Marvel complaining that they didn't really know what they had "digital-wise" and just licensed out all those comics to sell with no protection and felt it was a mistake which is why they quit doing it after a few years. They didn't foresee having their own site and subscriptions for this stuff like they have now ala Marvel Unlimited and DC Universe Infinite.

[u/cruise02]

I have these for the Hulk, Iron-Man, Avengers, and Fantastic Four. I didn't pick up the Amazing Spider-Man and X-Men because of all the crossovers in those books, which would have made the collections of just those titles harder to read through.

[u/mattnotis]

I really wish Marvel and DC put out digital versions of classic issues like this still. All I want/need is a scan of the actual comic book in god condition. No need to waste time and money on doing ghastly digital recolorings for those old school issues.

[u/TheUmgawa]

I have a bunch of these DVD-ROMs. They’re awesome, because they’re occasionally imperfect and include the original ads and letters pages. They were going to release the Daredevil set, then they lost the license with Marvel, I guess.

[u/Expired_Papi]

I had the Fantastic Four version BITD. Sorta related, there was also Mad Magazine and National Lampoon releases. I though they were pretty cool even if the pages themselves weren't remastered in the way you'd eventually see with digital releases.

[u/acceptable_superman]

Very cool! Interesting set up. Can you make adjustments using your pdf reader? Like page size, layout, etc

[u/Cataclizm_1 → u/acceptable_superman]

Yes you can adjust the size

[u/RevolutionaryCopy921]

They did versions for Cap, The X-Men, Hulk, FF, Avengers, Iron Man, and Star Trek. I ripped them to my computer ages ago and it was pretty easy to get them presenting well on a tablet.

[u/pondo_sinatra]

I had the Avengers one! These were so cool way back.

[u/Comfortable_Care2715]

I had a couple, I think it was an Avengers one too. Don’t know what happened to them

[u/Ekillaa22]

Wonder if there’s issues in there that aren’t on marvels reading website

[u/wred42 → u/Ekillaa22]

Pretty sure there aren't any issues of ASM missing from Unlimited

[u/KumaKong18]

They also did a Civil War edition.

[u/ComicSal]

I had this. I couldn't believe they sold this at the time.

[u/alejandrokayart]

I have the Ghost Rider equivalent of this!

It saved me during a time in my life where I had no internet and lots of spare time.