So, over the weekend Marvel kicked off Marvel #1, one of the cooler digital comic promotions, well, ever? Yeah, we’ll go with ever.
Basically Marvel is offering nearly every #1 issue they’ve ever done for free. First-issues of everything from The Fantastic Four to Devil Dinosaur to recent stuff like Hawkeye and Superior Spider-Man can be yours for nary a cent.
The books are available (in theory) from Marvel’s digital shop, their app or Comixology. I say in theory because this promotion is murdering both Marvel and Comixology’s websites. Marvel #1 is set to end tomorrow at 11pm, although I have a feeling it might get extended due to the technical difficulties, but you never know. So, If you have some free time over the next day-or-so, you may want to take a stab at grabbing yourself some free s–t.
Update – Comixology has “paused” the Marvel #1 promotion. They’ve put up a form you can fill out if you’d like to be notified when the promotion is unpaused. Right now even this form seems to be overloaded. Turns out “hey, here’s 700 free comics” gets a lot of attention — go figure.
via Gizmondo
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You may want to update the article, the sale is actually suspended due to the entire site going down.
Figured it might happen. Thanks for the update my friend.
I wonder if they’ll bring it back on in stages, for instance bringing those who signed upf ort he update online alpha numerically by email address and releasing them to that grouping bunches at a time.
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In fact, Mavel #1 so murdered Comixology that to a lot of people it’s still impossible to even log in to see the comics they own.
which was bound to happen, not really a complaint, just a hilarious internet breakage.
It amuses me to no end how royally this companies underestimate their audience. 700 FREE comics and you didn’t anticipate the floodgate of people wanting to take advantage?!
I have the comixology ap on the kindle and I don’t believe it supported this deal. When I could log on this weekend I couldn’t find any of the free #1s.
For such a big promo the actual specifics of the deal weren’t very specific. From what I could google it was only available on the Comixology website or the IOS ap or the Marvel ap, which again is not available for the kindle. Essentially I’m an idiot for owning a kindle.