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Raintree County Revisited.” Now, a Dozen Years Later, Mr 2 • MOVIE COLLECTOR’S WORLD • #716 DON'T DO ANYTHING WITH YOUR POSTERS UNTIL YOU CONTACT ME!! TOP DOLLAR PAID!!! •BUYING VINTAGE MOVIE POSTERS, LOBBY CARDS, FILM STILLS, WINDOW CARDS & MOVIE MEMORABILIA •BUYING ALL GENRES: HORROR, SCI-FI, COMEDY, CLASSICS, SILENT FILMS, ANIMATION, CRIME/NOIR, SERIALS AND WESTERNS. •ANY 1920'S-1970'S CONCERT POSTERS. •BUYING ALL SIZES! ANY CONDITION ACCEPTED! •LARGE FINDERS FEES PAID! •NO COLLECTION TOO LARGE OR SMALL! •CASH PAID IMMEDIATELY! Ralph DeLuca 800-392-4050 www.ralphdeluca.com 973-377-1007 Outside the United States 973-377-4020 Fax • [email protected] 157 Park Ave, Madison NJ 07940 #716 • MOVIE COLLECTOR’S WORLD • 3 ® No. 716 FEBRUARY, 2008 ISSN 8750-5401. USPS 326-650 Movie Collector's World (ISSN 0875-5401, USPS 326-650) is published monthly by Arena Publishing, Inc., corporate offices located 15767 Kingston Avenue, Fraser, MI 48026. NOTE: Send all correspondence, editorial and advertising material to our U.S. mail address: MCW, P.O. Box 309, Fraser, MI 48026 or email: [email protected] Subscription rates: 12 issues $36.00 ($70.00 outside of USA). Periodical Class Postage Paid at Fraser MI 48026 and additional mailing offi ces. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Movie Collector's World, P.O. Box 309, Fraser, MI 48026. Entire contents copyright 2008. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written coent of the Publisher. The Publisher is not responsible for any transactions made as a result of any advertising carried in MCW. Readers should note that due to a large volume of last-minute mail, typographical errors are a fact of publishing life. Please consider this should errors be found in prices, conditions, or other data pertaining to items advertised for sale. We regret such errors and inconvieniences caused by them. 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EX/UPS/ETC.: 15767 Kingston, Fraser, MI 48026 USA E-MAIL: [email protected] WEB: www.mcwonline.com I just returned home, after fi lling my car with $3.00+ gasoline and buying a nearly-$4.00 gallon of milk to open my cable TV bill to discover that just like clockwork, the January-timed rate increase had been announced. Instead of holding the line, or even matching the supposed current rate of infl a- tion (3-5%, depending on what numbers you believe), the price of standard basic cable service where we live (ComcastLand), spiked in excess of 10%! Up and down the line, prices for the service increased not by just a few percentage points. I don’t think I have to remind a single reader of this publication of the general cost-of-living trend. We at MCW are not immune to these increased costs, fees, add-ons, whether it be the costs of production, the costs of printing, or the costs of postage (you do remember the 2007 postage rate increase, don’t you? That defi nitely had an impact here). Despite all of this, somehow, we’ve managed to run a tight ship here at MCW. While some publications have curtailed their publishing schedules or even disap- peared, we’ve been able to continue to serve the movie poster collecting hobby on a regular schedule without missing a beat, and more importantly, without gouging the very customers who put us here in the fi rst place. I am proud to say that we’ve held the line on advertising rates for an incred- ible TEN YEARS... and going into 2008, I am even prouder to announce that once again, for the eleventh year in a row, our ad rates remain the same! This isn’t to say that forthcoming economic conditions won’t warrant a price hike, but as long as we can continue to cut costs and deliver the goods, we’re keeping the prices right where they were in late 1997. As usual, it is through your support that we’re able to maintain MCW, and for that I express my gratitude! DR. V, our resident horror/sci-fi writer and collector, is taking the month off. He is deep in the underground catacombs of his laboratory, concocting a bombshell interview and feature of, shall we say, a real bombshell! Watch the next issue of MCW for the return of our fi endish friend. In October, 1996, MCW #509 featured Steven Russell’s cover story, “Raintree County Revisited.” Now, a dozen years later, Mr. Russell has revised and updated the ‘Raintree County’ story to celebrate the saga’s 50th Anniversary, which occurred in the fall of 2007. And collector Bernie Bubnis has profi led a true collector in Bob Pickell in “The East Side Kid from New Egypt, New Jersey.” I hope this article hits home with you, no matter what collecting preference you enjoy. – Brian Bukantis, Publisher 4 • MOVIE COLLECTOR’S WORLD • #716 MOVIE POSTERS BOUGHT AND SOLD FILMPOSTERS.COM I am a collector, NOT a dealer. I will pay TOP DOLLAR for your posters. PLEASE CALL ME! 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