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. 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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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Box 874 • West Plains, MO 65775 phone: 417-256-9616 • fax: 417-257-6948 email: [email protected] website: http://www.emovieposter.com #716 • MOVIE COLLECTOR’S WORLD • 5 IF YOU’RE IN SOMEONE’S OFFICE, AND YOU FIND YOURSELF WONDERING WHERE THE HELL DID HE GET THAT? IT PROBABLY CAME FROM A MASTRO AUCTION. www.mastroauctions.com Consider the World’s Finest Collectibles Auction House for Your Collection CONSIGN We are always accepting consignments for our Premier Catalog Auctions and Classic Collector Auctions. If you prefer that your material be TODAY! presented by a firm dedicated to serving your needs as a consignor, call 630-472-1200 or visit ww.mastroauctions.com. 6 • MOVIE COLLECTOR’S WORLD • #716 Wanted: Would you like YOU and/or YOUR COL- LECTION to be featured in a future “How To Collect A Monster” column in MCW? (Non-monster poster collections always welcome too!). If so, contact me! [email protected] or call (508)- 853-1893 Vintage Movie Posters From Cult to Classics! Choice items at competitive prices. Solid packing, quick delivery and secure, convenient online shopping! Visit our website: www.posteropolis.com (Posteropolis is a LAMP-approved dealer.) #716 • MOVIE COLLECTOR’S WORLD • 7 Dracula VINTAGE MOVIE POSTERS (Universal, 1931). Title Lobby Card (11” X 4”). SOLD FOR: ON $65,725 — A HY C SIG World Record! W N TO HERITAGE? WE’LL GIVE YOU 2.66 MILLION REASONS! $2.66 Million Realized in Heritage ‘s Latest Vintage Movie Poster Auction! Heritage was the first auction house to break $1.5 million in a single auction of vintage movie posters, and then surpassed that mark with $2 million. Now, Heritage becomes the first rare poster dealer to sell more than $2.5 million worth of vintage Baby Face (Warner Brothers, 1933). One Sheet (27” X 41”): movie posters in a single auction, shattering SOLD FOR: $71,700! record after record in the process! The Bride of Frankenstein (Universal, 1935).