>
>Good point David I think i heard of the big collectors and Bruce and
most dealres VIA movie collectors world and your commentarys where
always interetsing... thanks to all who I met via MCW.... also I
advertised in Comic buyers Guide and many of the offshoots... what a
great hobby... also Bruce Heritage, The cinevent John Kisch, Morrie
Everett and many of my 1st customers . thank you for teaching me and
educating me on memorabilia
>
>---- Original Message ----
>From: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [MOPO] R.I.P. Movie Collector's World 1976-2012
>Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:05:56 -0700
>
>>
>>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: [email protected]
>>Subject: R.I.P. Movie Collector's World 1976-2012
>>To: [email protected]
>>
>>I am so very sad to announce that "On Monday, October 15 two of the
>most highly respected film buff publications,
>>Movie CollectorÂ’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
>>--
>>Bruce Hershenson and the other 26 members of the eMoviePoster.com
>team
>>
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