Anyone heard of the Q-Collection Project?

[USArmyParatrooper]

Some guy who claimed to be involved in the project made a thread discussing it on the Comic Book Resources forum.

 

In a nutshell, they take key classic comics and destroy them (from a collector standpoint) in the name of preserving them - or "preserving" (depending on your perspective) - for the sake retaining them for thousands of years.

 

They laminate each page by literally cooking the laminate onto the individual pages and rebind the pages into a wooden binder. The wood, they claim, is made from an exotic iron bark that has been hardened over thousands of years.

 

They have destroyed/preserved many, many keys, including an AF 15. They claim to receive no government funding, so I assume someone has deep pockets.

 

http://q-comics.com/index.htm

[Comicopolis]

Yes. I used to be part of a comic forum with the guy that runs the project.

 

Not my thing but I don't understand why others get upset about it. People can do what they want with their own books.

[USArmyParatrooper]

Yes. I used to be part of a comic forum with the guy that runs the project.

 

Not my thing but I don't understand why others get upset about it. People can do what they want with their own books.

 

I guess for the same reason I cringe whenever I find out someone "restored" an old coin or gun with a wire brush. My mind knows it's their property, but my heart can't help wanting to thump them upside the head.

[DrWatson]

Nutshell: What I think is fantastic. What you think is compostable_fertilizer.

[JAM_NYC]

Those wooden binders look pretty awesome!

[krighton]

sort of like having your beloved pet cat stuffed so that you remember her always. I have a feeling the debate on this is long and exhaustive.

[marvelcollector]

 

 

They laminate each page by literally cooking the laminate onto the individual pages and rebind the pages into a wooden binder. The wood, they claim, is made from an exotic iron bark that has been hardened over thousands of years.

 

 

They could just scan each page and "preserve" the book in a digital form that could be read or even printed out and assembled as a reproduction...would serve the same purpose and theoretically last forever...

 

Could damage but not destroy the original...

[zuulioso]

Yes. I used to be part of a comic forum with the guy that runs the project.

 

Not my thing but I don't understand why others get upset about it. People can do what they want with their own books.

 

+1

 

That is the beautiful thing about ownership.

[Comicopolis]

Nutshell: What I think is fantastic. What you think is compostable_fertilizer.

 

Indeed.

[Comicopolis]

Yes. I used to be part of a comic forum with the guy that runs the project.

 

Not my thing but I don't understand why others get upset about it. People can do what they want with their own books.

 

+1

 

That is the beautiful thing about ownership.

 

(thumbs u

[Speedy-D]

As long as they don't get them signed...

[bababooey]

...without a witness.

[seanfingh]

There is a funny thread from 5 or six years ago about the Q Project.

[G.A.tor]

I wonder if Steve "G"eppi has seen the video (versus the phonetic "jeppi" as it is pronounced)

[bababooey]

One letter & "collection" as a search parameter?

 

I'll let BUTM take that one...

 

[joe_collector]

As long as they're not shredding the highest-grade, pristine copies (which from the photos it's obvious they're not) then what's the big deal?

 

It's like the SS program - it's designed for mid-grade, nice eye-appeal copies and people only get angry when some numbskull defaces a CGC 9.6 Church copy or something.

[slym2none]

People can do what they want with their own books.

 

Bingo.

 

 

 

-slym

[ChrisInBaltimore]

As long as they don't get them signed…

 

Pedigrees are OK though (thumbs u

[DeliBebek]

There used to be an epic thread on the eBay boards regarding this initiative and its founder. Maybe it was several threads. In any case, it's the kind of situation where the eBay boardies found an opportunity to pounce on the guy on the occasion he would appear.

[Gunnz]

If someone wants to do this with their books, why not. On the bright side, the more books they do this to, the less are on the market, market value rises due to rarity and demand. If you have a key book, I would be cheering for these guys. Your originals will be worth way more because of it.

 

Just a thought.