Press Release
Marvel Comics (www.marvel.com) is proud to announce the launch of the Marvel Digital Comics Reader 3.0 at www.marvel.com/digitalcomics. The new reader builds on Marvel’s groundbreaking digital comics experience! Featuring the acclaimed Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited library of over 7,000 comic issues, as well as exclusive new series, the Marvel Digital Comics Reader 3.0 cannot be missed by any Marvel fan! The ultimate digital comic Internet destination allows unparalleled access to thousands of titles from Marvel’s historic comic book archives – from the first issues of Amazing Spider-Man, The X-Men, Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four and other favorites, to unforgettable recent stories! There are hundreds of new heroes, villains and stories right at your fingertips and you’ve never read comics like this before!
The Marvel Digital Comics Reader 3.0 showcases the most dynamic comics reader interface online, featuring the ability to read comics in three different modes including single page, two page and the patent pending smart panels; a magnifying tool that allows you to zoom in on your favorite panels with amazing results; detailed information about your favorite issues; and a full screen viewer that’ll make you feel like you’re in the comic!
With over 7,000 issues available, and more added weekly (based on feedback from YOU, the fans), no True Believer’s reading experience is complete without the Marvel Digital Comics Reader 3.0! Visit www.marvel.com/digitalcomics today for a free look at the revolutionary new experience and then go more in depth with subscription rates as low as $4.99/month!
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I have not gotten a subscription yet for the Marvel Digital (honeslty probably won’t) but I think it is a great way to get the books out there. Any improvements to the reader would help that.
You know, looking at these images, it makes me wonder if artist or writers are starting to plan their panel layout for an electric reader like this, the Ipod or the PSP? I know on older books that would not be possible, but still…
Yeah that’s great… Until Marvel puts them on the iPod, I still don’t care.
Well, yeah, I like it, I like the idea, but I can’t seem to load anything without hitting an error past page 1. I mean, maybe that’s just me and my slow indian internet, or maybe it’s something I need to update, but if it is, I would like to be told what exactly it is i need to update.
I had that all yesterday, I think it was a bug when they implimented the new reader, it’s fine now.
I do hate their update system though, missing the last issue of so many arcs to try and force me to get trades and all.
I signed up for this service back when in debuted, and then I signed up for another year and I have no idea why. Reading comics on the screen just always seemed awkward to me. v3 does seem to be an improvement but I just always feel like there’s some part of the page being obscured by controls or poor zooming.
Why would Marvel present a Digitized series, like X-Men Kingbreaker 1-4, with key issues missing that are only available thru their Print Bookstore? The only reason I can come up with is that their Digitized Service is just ADVERTISEMENT FOR THEIR PRINTED BOOKS THAT THE READERS ARE SUCKERED into paying for. If I’m wrong, whom do they imagine their target audience to be? Who, out there, is pleased by a fragmented, incoherent story? If they simply “haven’t gotten to digitizing them yet”, why not hold off on its presentation until the entire run is in? This isn’t a meandering, cross-over series. Their covers say 1-4 of 4.