Marvel Comics has just announced today the launch of Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, an online service that will allow the people to meet their favorite Marvel Universe character on the Internet. What could have been more appropriate than a web site for helping the fans meet once again (and again, and again…) their childhood heroes? 

Anyway, the price of the new service will be of only $4.99 per month, but the users will have also the possibility to first check out 250 samples for free before deciding to subscribe or not. The new service is PC and Mac compatible and it requires a web browser with Adobe Flash Player 6.0 or higher installed on their computers.

However, Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited is different if compared to a music-based service that allows the users to download content and leave the web site. Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited is all online. The users will be able to search the web site by writer, illustrator, character, book title, mini-series or date of publication. The users have the possibility to build their own personal reading list that could be then shared with the members.

According to Marvel Comics, each digital comic has been re-mastered for the online distribution and the content has been re-digitized and re-colored.

Thanks to Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited the users will be able to meet again the classic heroes from The Amazing Spider-Man, The X-Men, Fantastic Four, Incredible Hulk, as well as from other about 2,500 comic books. Marvel Comics, however, plans to add 20 titles weekly to its “marvel” database.

So, the comic books won’t die! The Internet has saved them!