Terrible news but I'm with everyone else - Brian Bukantis should be commended
for squeezing as much as he could out of MCW for so many glorious years - even
as people continued to flee to the Internet. I was proud to have been a
monthly contributor many years ago, writing columns about the hobby, covering
auction results and the occasional unsavory scandal. I know Brian suffered
through many headaches trying to get my controversial opinions into print -
while trying not to offend his advertisers. I got to meet a lot of names in
the hobby through that column, including Bruce H. and Jim Halperin and Grey
Smith, etc., as well as some big-time buyers and consignors like Stephen
Fishler, Claude Litton and Marty Saltzman. Over the last decade, Bruce H.
continued to be MCW's biggest champion, marketing it on his own site.
Three-cheers to Brian B. for giving his all to a magazine - whose legacy in the
poster collecting world - is forever etched in stone. -d.
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:54:52 -0500
From: brucehershen...@gmail.com
Subject: R.I.P. Movie Collector's World 1976-2012
To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
I am so very sad to announce that "On Monday, October 15 two of the most highly
respected film buff publications,
Movie Collector’s World (MCW) and Classic Images (CI) announced that they had
come to an agreement on the sale of MCW. Classic Images has agreed to buy Movie
Collectors World, a Michigan based newspaper published by Brian
Bukantis since 1985. The agreement was made on Friday, October 12. The two
papers, serving movie buffs around the world, will be merged into one monthly
publication. Under the terms of the agreement, currently active paid MCW
subscribers will receive each monthly issue of CI, beginning with the December
issue, for the length of their MCW subscription term."
Those of you who only joined this hobby the past few years only know of MCW as
a thin magazine, filled mostly with auction announcements and ads for the
foremost dealers.
But for those of us who have been in the hobby for decades, we remember so well
those pre-Internet days when a large portion of the collectors and dealers
subscribed to this then bulging publication, because it was THE number one way
to buy and sell, and pretty much the most important day of the month was the
one when MCW arrived!
This really IS the "end of an era". I want to publicly thank Brian Bukantis for
publishing it the past 27 years, and for doing a superb job throughout that
time (of course, the ONLY thing he couldn't overcome was the Internet, which is
rapidly putting EVERY newspaper and magazine out of business, and Brian should
be quite proud that he was able to continue publishing as long as he did). He
is a great guy, both personally and professionally, and he added immeasurably
to our hobby. The ONLY silver lining to this is that Brian's life now won't be
spent going from one urgent deadline to another!
I will have more about this (and a farewell message from Brian) in my next
weekly e-mail club message on Sunday!
Bruce
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P.O. Box 874
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Phone: 417-256-9616 (hours: Mon-Fri 9 to 5 except from 12 to 1 when we take
lunch)
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Also, please read the following three pages of in-depth
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our auctions so very different from all others!
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