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Post by sabongero on Aug 24, 2017 14:33:33 GMT -5
Who here owns digital comic books on DVD-Rom? What collections do you own?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 24, 2017 14:37:05 GMT -5
I picked up the Mad Comic/Magazine CD-Rom crazy cheap at some point. That's the only one.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2017 15:02:20 GMT -5
Not comics, but I have the first 250 issues of Dragon Magazine, the D&D mag on CD-Rom from when they released oh those many moons ago. Our library did have the Amazing Spider-Man CD-Rom back when I moved here, but it's since been lost by someone who borrowed it, but I did use it on a couple of occasions.
-M
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Post by sabongero on Aug 24, 2017 15:05:28 GMT -5
Not comics, but I have the first 250 issues of Dragon Magazine, the D&D mag on CD-Rom form when they released oh those many moons ago. Our library did have the Amazing Spider-Man CD-Rom back when I moved here, but it's since been lost by someone who borrowed it, but I did use it on a couple of occasions. -M That's a great collection to have. I loved buying Dragon magazine and it's "sister" publication, Dungeon magazine back in the ol' days. Is it colored or in black and white? |
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Post by sabongero on Aug 24, 2017 15:06:15 GMT -5
I picked up the Mad Comic/Magazine CD-Rom crazy cheap at some point. That's the only one. I just wanted to ask, is Mad Magazine and Cracked, sister co-publications by any chance? |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2017 15:10:41 GMT -5
Not comics, but I have the first 250 issues of Dragon Magazine, the D&D mag on CD-Rom form when they released oh those many moons ago. Our library did have the Amazing Spider-Man CD-Rom back when I moved here, but it's since been lost by someone who borrowed it, but I did use it on a couple of occasions. -M That's a great collection to have. I loved buying Dragon magazine and it's "sister" publication, Dungeon magazine back in the ol' days. Is it colored or in black and white? The covers are in color the rest of the mag in b&W, which is how they were published for most of the book's run. I don't think there was interior color art until afte rPaizo took over the magazines in the 3rd edition era. -M |
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Post by sabongero on Aug 24, 2017 15:13:21 GMT -5
That's a great collection to have. I loved buying Dragon magazine and it's "sister" publication, Dungeon magazine back in the ol' days. Is it colored or in black and white? The covers are in color the rest of the mag in b&W, which is how they were published for most of the book's run. I don't think there was interior color art until afte rPaizo took over the magazines in the 3rd edition era. -M I must've purchased the 3rd edition era then. I recall reading the part near the end of the magazine where it had a running series of sequential art comic book format of a few scenes in each magazine. I wonder if there was ever a Heavy Metal magazine in DVD-Rom format. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 24, 2017 15:13:31 GMT -5
I picked up the Mad Comic/Magazine CD-Rom crazy cheap at some point. That's the only one. I just wanted to ask, is Mad Magazine and Cracked, sister co-publications by any chance? Nope. Cracked was a competitor. Cracked was started by Major Magazines in 1958 as a direct competitor to Mad and pretty much copied its format exactly. When Mad was still a comic EC put out a companion comic called Panic that was edited by Feldstein. It lasted 12 issues over two years. |
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Post by sabongero on Aug 24, 2017 15:15:09 GMT -5
I just wanted to ask, is Mad Magazine and Cracked, sister co-publications by any chance? Nope. Cracked was a competitor. Cracked was started by Major Magazines in 1958 as a direct competitor to Mad and pretty much copied its format exactly. When Mad was still a comic EC put out a companion comic called Panic that was edited by Feldstein. It lasted 12 issues over two years. Thanks for the information Slam Bradley. For some reason, I thought they were sister publications since I saw each one next to each other in the comic book racks back when I was a kid. Ahhh... comic book racks, I haven't seen one in ages. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2017 15:30:56 GMT -5
The covers are in color the rest of the mag in b&W, which is how they were published for most of the book's run. I don't think there was interior color art until afte rPaizo took over the magazines in the 3rd edition era. -M I must've purchased the 3rd edition era then. I recall reading the part near the end of the magazine where it had a running series of sequential art comic book format of a few scenes in each magazine. I wonder if there was ever a Heavy Metal magazine in DVD-Rom format. Now that you mention it, Wormy by Dave Trampier and What;s New with Phil & Dixie by PhilFoglio were color strips at the back of the mag, but the Dragon Mirth panel gags were in B&W. In the Paizo era, there was color through the whole mag, pages were often vellum colored instead of white, headings had colored fill boxes to highlight them, interior art was in color, etc. In the TSR days, the cover and comics were in color, but all the article pages, ads, and interior art was b&w, except the ads on the back cover and sometimes the interior covers. here's a typical interior page from the old days...  vs. a typical page from the Paizo era...  -M |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Aug 24, 2017 15:31:33 GMT -5
Not comics, but I have the first 250 issues of Dragon Magazine, the D&D mag on CD-Rom from when they released oh those many moons ago. Our library did have the Amazing Spider-Man CD-Rom back when I moved here, but it's since been lost by someone who borrowed it, but I did use it on a couple of occasions. -M I walked off with the Amazing Spider-man CD Rom when the library got flooded and I didn't know where to return it to, actually. I should probably give it back one of these years. |
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Post by brutalis on Aug 24, 2017 17:21:00 GMT -5
Wonderful subject as these are my carry around for travels and doctor visits/etc for a quick easy read. The great part is you can upload whatever you want. So i have some uploaded onto a computer at home, my Kindle Reader and uploaded some to my work computer. Not everything, some of them just an issue or two or in other cases a run of issues like one year of Archie or Jughead or the complete run of Marvel Star Trek or a DC Star Trek so that I'm always comic ready for something to read  CD-Rom from GIT: Still available on Amazon for &6 to $19.99 or so new or used. Archie Bronze Age Series: collects complete 1970's (1970 to 1979) total of 96 comics. Jughead Bronze Age Series: collects complete 1970's (1970 to 1979) total of 120 comics. Betty and Veronica Bronze Age Series: collects complete 1970's (1970 to 1979) total of 120 comics. Star Trek Complete comic book Collection: collects all Star Trek comics from 1967 to 2002. Gold Key, Marvel, DC, Malibu, Wildstorm, etc. Toooooo many issues to list  Still available on Amazon for $19.99 Bought for Kindle:Batman 251 Joker issues 1-9 from 1975 Kamandi issues 1, and various others for total of 9 issues LooneyTunes single issues total of 5 3 separate sets of Phantom from Gold Key, King Features and Charlton (approx 10-12 issues each set) Scooby Doo single issues total of 5. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 24, 2017 19:28:16 GMT -5
I have over 27,000 comics in electronic format, too many to list here. Of them, only Fantastic Four, Incredible Hulk, Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers, X-Men, Captain America, and Iron Man came from prepackaged CD-ROM sets
Cei-U!
I summon the big ol' library!
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Post by Warmonger on Aug 24, 2017 19:40:18 GMT -5
None
Just floppies and trades in my collection.
Though I'm seriously considering buying the newer stuff that catches my interest in digital format. Space is becoming an issue (has been for years, actually) so I'm really close to just purchasing old Silver and Bronze Age stuff that I need in physical format from now on.
Ever since I got back into purchasing current comics about 10-12 years ago, I've found that they aren't as intimate as they used to be anyway. Between the slick, magazine paper, the incredible overuse of large splash pages with little to no dialogue...
It's rare that it takes me anymore than maybe 6-8 minutes to read a single issue these days. So what's the point in hoarding and storing all of that stuff?
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Aug 24, 2017 19:58:28 GMT -5
Coming from the other direction -
If it's something I want to own I want to own the physical thing. It's kind of pointless with Marvel and Image type books, usually, but Fantagraphics and Drawn and Quarterly and many of those typea publishers really think about their comics as art objects, with a lot of thought to the size, feel, and how pages will relate page to page.
I don't want to lose that.
Still, there are a lot of Golden Age books I want to read - Cei-u owns every issue of Adventure comics!!! - and I've been thinking of going digital just to read stuff published prior to 1960, a lot of which is in the public domain.
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Still available on Amazon for $19.99
