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Marvel StarWars Digital ComicBook DVD

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After about some years of watching the incredible fan edits of StarWars i'm working on my little project.

It's called the Marvel StarWars Comic Collection.

Goal is to make somekind of digital comic book that contains every single Marvel StarWars comic that has been released.

The First testversion has been uploaded to alt.binarties.starwars


Some of the specs and the todo's:

Every page of a comic has an read time of 2 minutes (as test, maybe it is to fast?) and with the chapterbutton on the remote you can
skip to the next page.

V0.1 contains:
- First testversion of an alternate Intro Scroll (found some typo's)
- First simply menustructure
- First Comic #01 to test the reading resolution
- First simply cover test


Future updates will contain:
- All the 107 comics
- Improved scans (maybe more brightness?)
- Better looking menu structure

- and many more...

Here are some screenshots of the first release version

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http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/5583/pdvd002eb5.jpg

http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/8651/pdvd003fn8.jpg

I would like to hear what you think about this first release.

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My collection of Marvel comics has 107 issues in it.

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This sounds more like a computer project than a DVD project.  Marvel put out a few DVDs of scans of YEARS worth of comics.  I have the Spider-Man one that goes from the beginning in '62 all the way up to about 2006 or so.  They're organized by decade, then by year, with each individual comic scanned in as a PDF file, ads and all.  You can print them out or read them on the computer at your own pace, rather than having to have your finger on the pause button.

Might want to investigate doing it that way instead.

My outlook on life - we’re all on the Hindenburg anyway…no point fighting over the window seat.

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Mine collection has 107 regular issues and:

- The 3 annuals, the 4 issue ROTJ mini-series, 14 Ewoks and 8 Droids, 2 Marvel Paperbacks (with unique stories)

- 300+ issues of the Marvel UK series, which had a few extra stories not printed in the US (including Specials and Annuals)

 

Let alone all the Blackthorne and Dark Horse series...

I stop getting them around 2003, so I've got almost every US comic from 1977 to 2003 :)

 

 

 

 

Star Wars 1977-1983

Star Trek 1966-1991

LeoneNut's Edits

YouTube Clips

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This looks like a really interesting project - hope it comes to fruition. I'd love to see the comics from '77 to '83 in particular. Had some of them here in the UK but would be great to have the whole shebang. Still have some UK versions in the loft... probably covered in pigeon poodoo by now haha!

You may be interested in this for possible ideas on how to proceed:

http://trekmovie.com/2008/08/05/trekink-first-look-at-star-trek-the-complete-comic-book-collection-dvd/

 

Star Trek in a Star Wars thread?!? Sacrilege - I know I know ;)

 

- 7FN

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I must chime in and say that anyone who actually wants to support the comic industry downloading bootlegs is an insult, when dark horse reprinted all the comics as archive editions in Trade paperback.

 

They did the entire regular run except for return of the jedi 1-4

The ewok and droids are not belonging to the same continuity so why would they include those?

 

They took incredible care that the digital coloring was done as to match the originals. I know i have compared some of my comics to the redoes and they are very close.

The Al Williamson stuff was my favorite. So i was a little pissed when they did not recreate the coloring of the original return of the jedi 1-4 and include it. They did reprint it sometime in the nineties but they had Pamela Rambow recolor it with garish modern colors.

 

Not all but some of those pizazz and amazing heroes stuff, and the uk stuff is being reprinted in the Luke Skywalker omnibus. I think way of the wookiee and the day after the death star. Not sure about world of fire i know that was released by marvel books in paperback.

I bought the devilworlds stuff back in the day and was not that impressed with it.

Then their was that one russ manning that was ghosted by someone else in the L.A. times that was never reprinted.

The original color sundays from the Williamson and goodwin newpaper strips have also never been published. Classic star wars was a complete recoloring and the russ cochrane 3 volume set is only in black and white.

 

If you want to download the way the comics originally looked i say go for it. for preservation sake.

I would also own the dark horse volumes, then i would have no qualms over downloading the stuff.

Although either way it is considered illegal. Though none of those dcp guys on demonoid have ever been prosecuted as of yet.

The only cases i have heard of have been in japan and they were over the illegal electronic distribution of manga.

 

Oh and that star trek dvd comic thing is actually licensed it is not a bootleg.

It just does not include the new content published by IDW comics.

Which Includes Stellar Stuff like Year 4, and the digital remastered gold keys.

They have the old gold keys in the trek collection.

“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.

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Thanks for every comment and the link to de startrek dvd. i've got this idea from a National Geographic set some long time ago but this was a pc based diskset.

About this project:

There was a comment in Alt.binaries.starwars about the resolution.  I've tested it on a 19inch tv and not always sharp, on a bigger tv there is no problem.

The latest post was about piracy comicsbooks. That's always interesting. The goal of this is to make a preservation in a somekind of new way.

I hope to continue this project this week.

I'm thinking about better usage of the screen: 2 pages side by side. On an 16:9 screen this could be done.