Marvel Entertainment has announced Marvel Comics on Chrome, a free app available via Google’s Chrome Web store. The app is optimized for the Google Chrome browser (which potential users must download first) and offers 1,600 comics for single issue purchase to read on a PC or Mac. Purchases made on the Marvel Comics app on iTunes will also be accessible via the Chrome store at no extra cost to users, though purchases made through the Chrome store may only be viewed through the Marvel app on Chrome.

 

As is increasingly typical in the world of digital comics, the Chrome app does allow access to some free books (including Civil War #1), and the price per issue is the digital comic standard cost of $1.99.