Marvel Comics unleashed onto iPhone

Jonny Evans
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October 30, 2009
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Hey Hey comics fans - Marvel Comics are now available on the iPhone via comiXology and Panelfly, with the ever-popular XMen titles (among others) leading the eBook-focused charge reports Macworld.

Titles including Astonishing X-Men, Captain America, X-23, X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, Marvel Zombies, Iron Man and Amazing Spider-Man, all of which are available now.

In an exclusive interview with MTV News, Marvel president and publisher Dan Buckley, "We’ve been kind of wrestling with developing a motion comics product for the last several years," Buckley told MTV News.

"Vestiges of it were even done when Bill Jemas was here with the 'Ultimate Spider-Man' piece, but it wasn’t quite what we wanted."

He added: “With the advent of the iPhone, it became an item where we felt we could get a lot more mass-market distribution.”

Comments (5)

Olternaut (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 6:37am

We all know why this is being done.....don't we????

......ahem....coughiTabletcough.

PZ (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 7:07am

Um, actually if you read the few sentences that make up that article, you'll see that its "being done" for the already existing, 60 million+users with an iPhone or iPod touch.

You also realize that best possible scenario for Apple Tablet sales consists of maybe 4 million in the first year? Thats BEST case.

4 million or 60 million......

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 10:25am

reminds me of 'the maxx' from way back, on mtv.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | October 30, 2009 - 2:30pm

It's not a comic book, it's not a cartoon.. it's the worst of both worlds.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | November 06, 2009 - 12:23am

Seriously... Who would buy this?  I wouldn't download it for free, much less pay for it.  This whole motion comics thing is such a joke.