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The best thing to happen to comics since Superman

See this news item, which has me all worked up and feverish:

OCTOBER 13, 2005

GRAPHIC IMAGING TECHNOLOGY INC., the manufacturer of 2004's bestselling 40 YEARS OF THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (cd-rom) - with nearly than 25,000 copies sold to date - and the earlier MARVEL COMIC BOOK LIBRARY, announces two new MARVEL COMICS digital archival comic book collections:

1. SHIPPING NOVEMBER 14 -- 40 YEARS OF X-MEN (Item # 900025):
-- more than 485 complete issues of UNCANNY X-MEN... every page of every issue... from X-Men #1 (September 1963) thru X-Men #461 (August 2005)
-- including Giant-Size X-Men #1 (introduction of the "New" X-Men) and 18 Annuals and Special Editions published over the years
-- every comic is complete - cover to cover - and in FULL COLOR: all the stories, letters pages, Bullpen Bulletins, Stan Lee's Soapboxes, pin-ups, etc. - even the ads
-- nearly 17,500 pages of awesome X-Men comic books
-- all digitally mastered and stored on one single DVD-ROM (load in the DVD drive of your PC or Mac) - and they're printable in COLOR or black & white (so you can make facsimile paper copies of your favorite issues if that's how you to prefer to read them)
-- the suggested retail price is $49.95, and it should be available in comics shops nationwide very soon (ask your comic retailer to order it from his/her distributor)
-- there is absolutely no other way - not paper comics, not reprints, not Marvel Masterworks - to be able to buy and read this many comics... and so affordably.
-- the third X-Men movie - tentatively titled "X-Men III" and guaranteed to be a box office blockbuster - will be released worldwide on May 5, 2006

2. READY NOW -- 44 YEARS OF FANTASTIC FOUR (Item # 900015):
-- the DVD of this summer's blockbuster "Fantastic Four" movie ($154 million U.S.) will be released December 6, 2005... more people will see this movie on DVD -- and will want to read the original comic books it was based on -- than saw the film in theaters
-- 550 complete issues of FANTASTIC FOUR... every page of every issue... from FF #1 (November 1961) thru FF #519 (December 2004)
-- including more than 40 Annuals and Special Editions published over the years
-- every comic is complete - cover to cover - and in FULL COLOR: all the stories, letters pages, Bullpen Bulletins, Stan Lee's Soapboxes, pin-ups, etc. - even the ads
-- more than 20,000 pages of classic FF comic books
-- all digitally mastered and stored on one single DVD-ROM (load in the DVD drive of your PC or Mac) - and they're printable in COLOR or black & white (so you can make facsimile paper copies of your favorite issues if that's how you to prefer to read them)
-- the suggested retail price is $49.95, and it is available in comics shops nationwide right now (or ask your comic retailer to order it from his/her distributor)
-- an incredible bargain - the easiest & least expensive way to read the entire run of Marvel's flagship comic title... the super-heroes that changed comic books forever!

3. ALSO NOW AVAILABLE -- MARVEL COMIC BOOK LIBRARY (Item # 803967, DVD box... and #804124, mass box):
-- the first 10 appearances and stories of 10 of Marvel's most famous super-heroes and groups
-- included are Spider-Man (Amazing Fantasy #15 & Amazing Spider-Man # 1-9, etc.), the Incredible Hulk, Daredevil, Captain America, Iron Man, the Silver Surfer, the Sub-Mariner, Fantastic Four, the Avengers, and the "New" X-Men (Giant-Size X-Men #1, and X-Men # 94-102)
-- contains 10 complete stories in FULL COLOR for each of the above -- 100 stories in all
-- nearly 2,200 pages of classic Marvel comic stories - these are the heroes and the stories that changed comic books forever
-- all digitally mastered and stored on one single CD-ROM (load in the CD drive of your PC or Mac) - and they're printable in COLOR or black & white (so you can make facsimile paper copies of your favorite stories if that's how you to prefer to read them)
-- the suggested retail price is $29.95, and it is available in comics shops nationwide now (or ask your comic retailer to order it from his/her distributor)
-- there is absolutely no other way - not paper comics, not reprints, not Marvel Masterworks - to be able to buy and read this many comics... and so affordably.

Also look for these other cool products coming in 2006 from Graphic Imaging Technology: January: 40 YEARS OF THE AVENGERS ...Collecting more than 550 classic issues of Marvel's super-hot super-group!

February: 40+ YEARS OF THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, v2.0 ...Now digitally re-mastered on a single DVD-ROM with 2,500 additional pages!

March: 50 YEARS OF MAD MAGAZINE ...celebrate Alfred E. Neuman's 50th Birthday on April 1, 2006... with us!

...and a very special announcement of new Distinctively Classic comic products we'll have later in 2006!

Thank you very much.

J.A. "Jack" Colwell
National Sales & Marketing Manager
GRAPHIC IMAGING TECHNOLOGY INC.
Cell: 415.596.2406
Fax: 415.585.9527
E-mail: jcolwell_git@yahoo.com
E-mail2: jackolwell@yahoo.com
Web: www.gitcorp.com

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Now, do you know what this means? All those people I despise for treating comics like objects instead of art to be enjoyed are to be destroyed!

Of course, this won't be the end of print comics, or of collecting. There will always be something about the print copy, and especially about the original first issue. But now we can all love them. They will be more readily available and easier for any of us to read. I find this a significant step towards the legitimation of comics. History and literary study of Marvel comics has just become that much easier. Oh, how I love this digital age.

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Written by SaintEhlers on October 26th, 2005