Why must be hard to tear magazine and scan them? I always do that. I never keep complete magazines. But these D magazine early editorials are in bad condition as you can see on the scans, they had water damage...I got them in a trade and the trader was not careful when sending it, so they arrived damaged...that was a lot harder. Scanning is a must for a hard-core collector like me. And you can never scan if you do not tear the magazines apart. I often tear photography books and even catalogs...lol...I love doing that. After all, the pages with my models are the only thing that matter and I better have them in a good place, not surrounded by tons of useless pages of paper, which are magazines;)) The first thing i do after buying a magazine is tearing it apart. Like I did with French Vogue April 2019 today...I do not even look at it, I start ripping it off at once.
Here is another early editorial with Carmen I love, Elle Germany, December 1997. My scans: