I have been a movie fan all my life. I had a big laser disc collection of old movies in the 1980s and I have a large Blu-Ray disc collection of old movies now. Whatever the new technology format is 20 years from now I’ll have a large collection of old movies on that too. If you’re a movie fan it’s logical that you might get involved in collecting motion picture fan magazines and that’s what I’ve been collecting also for the past 25 years or so.

Looking through your old issues of Photoplay, Motion Picture, Screen Stories is like looking through a window back into a another world: It’s a magical world far removed from the mundane little present day world we all have to live in most of the time. The brightly colored pages in those old magazines can show you Marilyn Monroe rolling around in bed in her black skimpy underwear. They can show you Jan Sterling in a bikini lounging around her swimming pool or Sophia Loren or Jane Russell sitting around on their over-stuffed sofas in their plush mansions. On the more plebeian side those pages can show you Glenn Ford taking out the garbage or John Wayne relaxing on his yacht without his hairpiece.

Sometimes you can see something off-kilter like a subdued Charlton Heston making a sandcastle at the beach which he never did in his movies since he was too busy in those swinging battle axes and broad swords. If you turn the pages far enough back into time you can see D.W. Griffith giving orders on a set from Birth Of A Nation or Cecil B. DeMille wearing his baggy pants or Tom Mix brandishing a rifle while sitting proudly astride his horse.

So if you have a large collection of movie magazines up to 1969 I would like to hear from you and have a chance to buy your magazines. If your collection is large enough I will travel to you. If not we can work out a mail order deal. I hope to hear from you soon.