I have absolutely no idea how this escaped my attention, but they finally released The Tick's first season on DVD:

http://www.amazon.com/Tick-Vs-Season-One/dp/B000FS9MVK

Unfortunately, it's missing The Tick vs. The Mole Men (apparently for legal reasons), but at least it's SOMETHING.

I love The Tick!  I am a little worried though, here is what one person wrote as a review on amazon:

"You've been waiting over 10 years for the Tick to come out on DVD. You've eyed Amazon feverishly. You follow up every rumor. You even bought the live action disks.

And then, in seeming answer to your decade of diligent prayers and blue votive candles, it's finally here, and the package looks fan-freaking-tastic.

You call in sick to work, plunk yourself onto your sofa with a box of Lucky Charms, a gallon of milk, a cereal bowl, and your favorite SPOON! and prepare for a six hour TV-watching orgy.

You pop Disk 1 in the DVD player, and (once you get past all the ads) are nearly drowned by a wave of nostalgia. The main screen is full of animated eye candy, and you watch it at least a half dozen times. Finally you grab the remote and flip through the options.

That's odd... no special features. Must be on the other disk. I mean surely no one would release The Tick on DVD without acknowledging its origin as a comic book or its rabid cult following.

Hmm... now that's REALLY odd. There don't seem to be any commentary tracks either. You KNOW Edlund has things to say about the series. You've been scouring the Internet for Tick info since Mosaic was the only graphical web browser.

Well, you reason, all that other stuff is just parsley. The main course is the shows themselves.

So you push play on episode one, and you chuckle through the opening interview sequence, but something is niggling at you. Something doesn't look quite right, and yet the show looks exactly as you remember. It's not until the title sequence that it hits you so hard that you stop singing along in mid 'Dum-dwee'.

You pause to confirm your horror:

The reason this looks exactly like you remember from 10 years ago is because it's an analog-to-digital recording! Instead of recording from the original cells, the manufacturer recorded from video.

You sit there for a bit, stunned. They had 10 years to make this DVD, and this is the best they could do? Heck, it's not much better than the bootlegs you made with your first DVD-R. You don't really want to push play again. Your cereal has gone warm and mushy. After a bit you pick up the phone. 'Yeah... it was just my sinuses. I'll be into the office in 30 minutes.'"

I wouldn't worry. I bought the DVD before even reading that review and while I did notice the video wasn't as polished as some of my other TV on DVD's, it' the Trick for cryin' out loud and I don't even have cable anymore so it was a treat for me! I don't understand why they put 9 episodes on disc 1 and 4 on disc 2. That's a little pointless considering there really are no extras on disc 2 (maybe they had plans but they were scrapped at the last minute?) Anyway personally I say extras are just that-- "extras"-- and have little to do with the substance of what I'm paying for to relive my childhood.

But I wouldn't be surprised if this release really was an intern's weekend project, haha. You can get The Tick for $20 at www.half.com

Disney pretty much just throws these Season collections up when they're not ramming the latest feature project down your gullet, so yeah, not much in the glamour department. But like Carlos says, you're getting the Tick! Thrakazog! The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight! That's concentrated awesomeness right there, so who cares about a fuzzy picture?