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A great collection, but...
...with this price tag, who can afford it? Do yourself a favor: Unless you absolutely MUST have ALL of the Captain America stories of the last 40 years on DVD, buy the Iron Man and Avengers collections instead. You'll save yourself a lot of money, and you will still have all of the best Captain America appearances of the Silver Age from Tales of Suspense and the Avengers, including his first Silver Age appearance in TOS (his "appearance" in Strange Tales before that was actually an impersonator, and was an admitted test by Stan Lee to see how many requests they would get to bring Cap back), and his first appearance in the Avengers. When I was a kid, I felt like the story quality went down after the Marvel heroes got their own books, especially the Sub-Mariner, Doctor Strange, Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (after Jim Sterenko left), and yes, even Captain America (after Kirby stopped penciling it). (If you want to see some really great Captain America artwork, check out Kirby's Golden Age issues. Very stylized, and very dynamic.) The only ones that stayed solid during Marvel's 1968 relaunch were The Incredible Hulk (at least Marie Severin's renditions were easier to stomach than Herb Trimpe's) and Iron Man, but that's just my opinion. I'm sure there are scores of people who disagree with me. I suppose it all boils down to who your favorite artists are. I still feel that Marvel's best efforts over time have always been the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, the X-Men, the Mighty Thor (Kirby's longest run outside of the FF) and, of course, the Amazing Spider-Man. I was a big Doctor Strange fan, but when Steve Ditko left the series, it never quite recovered, which is why it was canceled after only 14 issues. Don't get me wrong; I loved the work that Dan Adkins, Tom Palmer, and Gene Colon did in this series. In fact, it was fantastic. But Ditko invented Dr. Strange. It was his baby, and no one but he could invoke the eerie look and feel of multidimensional travel and the weird entities Dr. Strange met along the way. And when they put a mask on the good doctor, well, that was the end for me. I didn't even wait for the price to go up to 15 cents, even though I thought that the scripting of Roy Thomas was actually better than Stan Lee's. But look how many books he had been writing before Roy came along: practically the entire Marvel line, including Modeling with Millie and the Westerns. Nick Fury also suffered a loss when Jim Steranko left the series, and the Sub-Mariner without that great Gene Colon artwork was like peanut butter without jam. Spider-Man was lucky in the sense that "Jazzy" Johnny Romita's pencils actually took Spidey to new heights of glory (who can forget meeting Mary Jo Watson for the first time), but we will always have Ditko to thank for all of his weird villains like Mysterio, Doctor Octopus, and the Sandman. In retrospect, Marvel might have been better off continuing to print Strange Tales, Tales of Suspense, and Tales to Astonish. Certain characters were strong enough to carry their own book; others were not. And when Marvel increased the cost of a comic book from 12 cents to 15, it was a double-whammy that most fans just could not handle. It was amazing how Jack Kirby stayed with the FF for 102 issues. Even his artwork began to suffer a quality loss towards the end, although much of that had to do with the number of books he was penciling. I heard somewhere that he was pumping out about ten pages a day. Most artists might get one page done per day. The FF has been lucky throughout the years to have been blessed with great writer/artist teams. The same goes for the Avengers and especially the X-Men and Spidey. But I digress. So, you've got 0 to plunk down for this collection that could easily be obtained in reprints for much less? (For that matter, I just checked the Overstreet Guide, and you could buy C.A. 100-150 in Fine for about the same price.) Be my guest...

Here we go again!
Great product but really, 0.00 dollars? REALLY? I mean REALLY?
I have seen this elsewhere for much less than this so I know if you look around you can find it cheaper than this outrageously ridiculous price. If someone does buy this for this price please let me know what you're reasoning is for paying that kind of price. Once again I would like to offer some swampland I have for sale to those who are willing to pay such prices ; )

Nice, but...
UPDATE 4/20/08: AFTER USING THIS PRODUCT FOR SEVERAL DAYS, I WOULD REVISE MY RATING FROM 3 STARS TO 4. IT'S GREAT TO FINALLY READ THESE OLD ISSUES, AND ONCE I GOT READER SET UP JUST FOR READING THESE (TURNED OFF ALL TOOLBARS AND PANELS, "FIT WIDTH") IT'S ACTUALLY A PRETTY NIFTY EXPERIENCE. I STILL WISH THE PDF'S WERE SINGLE PAGES AND THAT PRINTING DIDN'T HAVE THAT AWFUL WATERMARK SMACK IN THE CENTER OF EACH PAGE. BUT OI HAVE TO ADMIT I'M ENJOYING THIS PRODUCT.

Pros:
1) 500 comics for = 10 cents an issue!
2) Complete comics are scanned, so you can read ads, letters pages, etc
3) Since they're scans from real comics, they have that nice desautrated quality you get from ink printed on newsprint (as opposed to the garish colors in the Marvel Masterworks volumes which are printed on highgloss white paper.)

That said, here's why I'm only going this three stars:

Cons:
1) Even with a 17" monitor I find I need to zoom in and scroll around. It's too bad they hadn't developed a "smart panels" feature like they have at Marvel Digital Comics. But, this is basically just a DVD with 500 PDF files on it, so you're stuck using the standard Adobe Reader interface. Not bad, but no nifty navigation tools.

2) Although the files are printable, there's two problems with printing:

FIRST, they print with a big fat MARVEL watermark on the center of each page -- the watermark isn't visible on screen -- which really takes away from the image integrity. I suppose I see the need for this for copyright protection, but still, it's a drag when they advertise these on the box as "printable comics." Of course, if you have a lot of time on your hands, you can do a screen capture, paste them into Photoshop and print them out from there. But sheesh! Not that I planned to print out 500 comics, but it would've been fun to print out some of the old 60s issues.

SECONDLY, the pages are scanned as full spreads. It would have been much nicer if the PDFs were single pages (with "facing pages' turned on in Acrobat). Why do I say that? When you print out a full spread onto typing paper, the individual pages come out quite a bit smaller than a standard comic book. If the pages were separated in the PDF, each page could be printed slightly *larger* than a comic book. (Admittedly, you'd have to trim some margins for the occassional full-spread splashes.)

Silver Age and onward -- good stuff!
GIT really did a fine job with these comic collections. Too bad Marvel is now going totally online and won't let anyone have the actual comics in hand anymore. *sigh* Oh, well -- but if you can get it used (or from GIT), go for it. It's definitely worth the money!

complete comic collection
This DVD rom is the best way to catch up on old back issues. Of any one that collects comics you know that when you're looking of the one issue that you need to complete your collection I am the hardest one to find. But when you buy this DVD rom you get every issue of the title that it is names for.
This box contains every cap issue from the first issue featuring cap in the early 1960 to his death in the pages of civil war.
Cap is a reminder of what America should be, and should be looked at as a role motel for every one in the world