Bruce, you often sell incomplete 3 sheets on Sunday auctions. Do you know of any case where someone has completed a poster by purchasing two incomplete ones?
I think I'd rather draw to an inside straight.
it happens. I can tell you that a few times in my art dealing career I have helped re-marry original sunday comics art by Hal Foster (Prince Valiant), Burne Hogarth (Tarzan) and Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon/Jungle Jim) where the top half had become separated by the bottom half.
Once, a collector bought from me a bottom of a Hogarth Tarzan, and reminded me to keep an eye out of I ever found the top 1/3. Strangely, the following week I bought a collection and the top piece was right there
another time I had one side of a 2-page splash from an issue of Metal Men by Sekowsky. I had just picked up a collection at a New York comicon when it was promptly stolen.
3 weeks later I bought another collection and it had the other half. I held the piece for 15+ years waiting to find the other, finally got tired of it & posted it to ebay (when I was still selling there) with the complete story. A friend in California called me up that afternoon, told me he just bought a collection and the page was in it, and he gave it back to me. Then I sold the completed spread immediately for $1500
