Parting out low grade key book. How do you feel about it?

[Bill1]

Everyone remembers the Dead Sea Scrolls? Many intact scrolls were destroyed because the locals found out they could make big money just for pieces of them. So, they tore them up!

 

 

http://www.deadsea.com/explore/historical-sites/biblical-sites/the-dead-sea-scrolls/

 

[drotto]

I concede, the cover is not the same. Sorry I missed it. On the other hand one seller moving multiple pages from a key book still makes it look likely they are parting out books.

[AKA Rick]

I don't mind a person parting out a book, essentially destroying something, which in actuality may be rare, but is one of many, meaning not one of a kind and not blasphemy.

 

However, I'm personally not a buyer of a single page of a comic book.

 

You see comics being destroyed for these "cut panel" cards, even with the Avengers Silver Age release, they cut up Avengers #1 and #4 among other issues to create these trading cards with a "real" piece of comic book in them... whoop-dee-doo!

 

You see this in sports cards where card companies cut up into thousands of pieces, players jereseys, hats, game balls, bats, gloves, etc. and call them "relic", "game used" or "memorabilia" cards

 

It's more of a poor man's substitute for the real deal in many cases, where a fan feels they have a piece of the action because they can't afford the whole real item.

 

I don't berate those who buy 'em and enjoy 'em nor those who destroy 'em to sell 'em.

 

I just know there's a large population of people who aren't interested, so, when someone does destroy something, they do take the risk and therefore deserve the reward if it sells or doesn't sell.

[FineCollector]

I don't berate those who buy 'em and enjoy 'em nor those who destroy 'em to sell 'em.

 

I do! Those pieces deserve to be cherished in museums and collections, not tossed in the chipper.