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This effect has nothing to do with hammers or smashing things. It does have to do with the aces, however. The title came about because David was listening to Cannibal Corpse while He was playing around with this routine, and the song that was on was, "Hammer Smashed Face". That is enough about the weird title.

Here is the effect (and what an effect!):

The four aces (or four selections) are signed and placed aside. A fifth unknown card is selected and placed face down between two jokers, which are then placed into the card box. The aces are then shown once again, and are then cleanly shuffled...

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Explorations of a 100% hands-off "volunteer as psychic" plot and method.

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1. ... Tuesday Stack
2. Karma Deck Wednesday Stack
3. Karma Deck Thursday Stack
4. Karma Deck Friday Stack
5. Karma Deck Saturday Stack
6. Karma Deck Sunday Stack

1. Birthday Surprise
2. Double Deck Drama
3. Cross Weight
4. Contact Card Reading
5. Telepathic Cross Weight
6. Scuba Card Diving
7. Mini Envelope Giant Routine
8. Untossed Out Divination
9. Wrong Memory Right Result

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Roy Walton's Classic Oil & Queens on Speed!

The basis for this multi-climax routine is Roy Walton’s Oil & Queens. In the mid 70’s Peter developed a variation on the original Walton effect whereby the cards turned blank at the end. However, Jon Racherbaumer beat him to the punch when he published the same variation. The following routine is based on the blank routine but has an additional kicker stage that was not in any previous version. Peter has also added Kings to match the Queens. Also, there is no Hamman Count in this version.

1st edition 2008; 9 pages.

1st edition 2016, 22 pages.

Why do the same tricks everyone else is doing?

The Book That Doesn't Exist is the new name for the continuation of [lc=4152 FEEN-X Magazine, an underground newsletter read by some of the top names in magic. Now it can be yours!

2002-2003, 178 pages.

1. Table of Contents

7. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 1 - 5 pages
7. Twistin' The Night Away - A New Twist to Card Twisting Effects
9. Slowly I Turn - Thoughts on Quick Moves Vs. Smooth Moves
9. Johnny CardTrickSeeds - A Short Story
10. Brian Higgins Alternative to the Rub-A-Dub Vanish - A Different Card Vanish
11. Old Business - Thoughts on Stigmata...

Numbers 249-252

173 pages

1. Vol. 45, Number 249, March, 1956 [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
1. Extra photo plate page 1 - Winners of the George Johnson "Magic Wand" Trophy
1. Foreword - George Armstrong
   • The Kalanag Revue
   • The Sorcar Controversy
2. My Magic - series by Bridger Lewis
   • Rope Through Stick
   • Rope Through Leg
   • Silk Transpo
5. The Three Shell Game - series by Eddie Joseph
   • The Twin Principle
   • Preparing the Outfit
   • Defining the Principle
8. The Card Tricks of Jerry [sic] Lee - series by Gerard de Bodt
   • Four Aces and Four Kings
11. Magic for the Concert Platform Magician - series...

1. ...Name-It-Deck - Aldo Colombini
37. The Tale of the Chinese Magician - Joe Hustler
38. With Magic in Mind - Stanton Carlisle
    • A Mental Pot-Pourri
41. How to be a 'Snail Man' - Alan Ward
42. At the End of Your Season - Ian Adair
43. Kennaugh's Kolumn - Alan Kennaugh on the Show Business Scene
47. G.T.X. - Sinclair
48. Patter for Cork Thru Card - Ed Dunhill
49. Some Ideas - Goutam Guha
    • Rope Cutting (another version)
51. The Mayes Concept - Jack Mayes
53. Word Game - Arun Bonerjee (Calcutta)
54. A Bit of Business
54. Whispers in the Wings - Harold Long
55. Silk Transposition - Fred Kaps
56. Mother-in-Law - John Strange
56. Puzzle Solved - testimonial ...

1. ...
   • ...
     • ... Info
     • Coffee Break Chronicle
     • Club 71
     • Abracadabra
     • Magick
     • Precursor
     • Genii
   • Tricks 'N Things
     • [House of] Fakini - balls, golf balls, plumes
     • Carduplication - Supreme
     • Mark Your Words - Supreme
     • The Spelling Lesson - Arnold Furst
     • Business Card Miracle - Bob Solari
   • Postage Savers - correspondence
17. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
    • The Continuing Adventures of a Side Show Magician
19. Subject: Illusions - David Seebach
23. Forum - Bruce Posgate
25. Cover Story - re: David Harkey
26. Shades - David Harkey
28. Lost in the Forest - John Sherwood
    • 17th Century Magic and...

This is the second volume of the Hoffmann trilogy. If you liked Modern Magic you will love More Magic. There is too much to list. Refer to the 'Table of Contents' below for details. This book was rated one of the ten basic books for a working library of conjuring by H. Adrian Smith, historian, collector and owner of the largest private magic library in his time. Other books in this top 10 list are

• Magicians' Tricks by Henry Hatton and Adrian Plate
• The Expert at the Card Table by S.W. Erdnase
• The Art of Magic by T. Nelson Downs
• Modern Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
• Later Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
• The Modern Conjurer by C. Lang Neil
• Our Magic by Maskelyne and Devant
• Tarbell Course by Harlan Tarbell
• Greater Magic by John Northern Hilliard

• ... Green Bottles by Walt Lees
• Reel Wand by Geraint Ingram
• Letters
• How To Succeed In Magic by Steve Jones: Selling Yourself Part 9: Quoting a Fee
• The Back Window by Al Smith
• Simon Says
• Unclassified Ads
• News: conducted by Geoff Maltby
• Magic of the Mind: Quick Demise by Phil Goldstein
• Kranky Card Rise Plus by Angelo Carbone
• Variations on a Theme: More Cards by Appointment by Brian Eden
• Yclipt Addition by Mo Howarth
• In the Next Issue
• Henrique's Dew Drops
• Cabaret Time: A Suit in Courts by Solyl Kundu
• Comedy: Finger Through Jacket by Graham S. Clarke
• New For Old: Arabian Vase Revisited...

These are the second four volumes of the Wizard Magazine as a PDF which you can download. It includes a hyperlinked index.

1st edition July 1951 - July 1956; 1733 pages.

• No. 49
  • George Armstrong / Charles Cole
  • Geomental Rayond / Two Person Mentalism
  • Dennis Barnes / Opening to a 4 Ace Routine
  • O.H. Patterson / My Rings on Rope
  • Len Belcher / My Card Stab
  • Tom Sellers / Simplex Card Prediction
  • John K. Bays / Famous Magicians
  • A.C. Newitt / Why Use the Pass
  • Harry Thomas, Max Linden / The Tomlin Coin Box
  • Jack Lamonte / Opening for the Egg Bag Routine
  • Philcardo / Bouquet for...

1. ...Kennaugh's Kolumn - Alan Kennaugh on the Show Business Scene
13. The Magic of John Yeager
    13. Colour-Changing Balls to Silks
    14. A Die and Paddle Trick
    15. A Phantom Tube Routine
    17. Slate 'O Dots
    18. The Boston Deception
    19. Case for ESP
    19. Five Boxes Off Mystery
    21. Sydney Spider
    22. Evolution of a Trick
    23. Zebra Plaque
25. Harry Stanley Reminisces
28. A Simple Card Stand
29. Arthur Carter Column - Arthur Carter
    • Psychological Projection
30. Dressing-Room Interlude - Bruce Posgate
31. Use of Glove-Puppets in Magic - Val Andrews
31. Hand-in-Glove Card-Location - Val Andrews
32. Norman Lee's Varieties
    • Reflections on Values
    • Part 2! - Reflections on Children's...

1. ... by Ken de Courcy
138. 'Flash' Magic Growing Flowers - Ian Adair
139. At Homb with McComb - Billy McComb
141. Magic as Entertainment - Harold Taylor
145. Raves for Our Costume Bags - from "From Our Point of View" (M.U.M.)
146. An Easily Made Fire-Bowl - Norman Rhodes
147. Staggering Simplicity - Ken de Courcy
149. Simplex Card in Wallet - Harry Carnegie
150. A Simple Paper Tearing Effect - Joe Stuthard
151. Harry Stanley Reminisces
158. Weedy's Wonders - Weedy the Clown
162. Two Wongs! - John Savill
163. Mondo Monte - My Version - John Teo
164. The Pranky Magic Test - Brian Marr
165. Dice Choice - W. Rory Coker
166. News and Views from the Colonies - George...

1. ... - A Review of Magical Literature - Lloyd E. Jones
   • It's Not Always Wine and Roses but Sometimes You Get a Free Lunch, or, Life on a School Show Tour - Al 'The Only' Ulman and Lori
   • Ross Bertram on Slight of Hand
   • Magic and Methods of Ross Bertram
   • New York Magic Symposium
   • Prime Hole Card - Ben Harris
   • Pyschic Magic - Ormond McGill - six volumes combined
   • Magick, four issues
   • The Australian Magazine, September/October
   • Letter from Hades, November issue
   • Voice of the Attic Notes, Numbers 23 & 24 - Bruce Dunn
   • Magic Chatter, Volume 16, Number 9
   • Magicana [New Zealand], No. 131
   • El Duco's Magic Catalog No....

January 1952 - December 1952
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

385 pages

1. The "Tops" - Volume 17, Number 1 - January 1952 - 32 pages
1. With the Editor - Mel
1. Contents
2. A Novel Ring Release - Oswald Harrington
2. Three Minds and a Card - A Different Working Method - Roxy
3. Bird Cage in Square Circle - Louis Ward
4. A Flash Billiard Ball Sleight - Cleveland Miller, Jr.
4. Color Changing Balls - Prince Drakon
5. Two E-Z Card Sleights - Roxy
5. Astrologia - Howard P. Albright - continued
   • Sealed Message Reading Routine No. 2
   • Prompter-Cards for Use in Connection...

• Editorial: Walt tells it as it is
• Unclassified Ads: Buy, sell or swap
• Blackpool Convention last minute news
• Magic of the Mind by Len Vine
• The Egg Bag: Variations on a theme by Gerard Mallon
• Kiddies Column: The Fantasio Candle routined by Walt Lees
• Mental Magic by Barrie Richardson
• Card Sessions by John B. Wolf
• Psycholour Plus by Norman Wilcox
• Basic Card Technique: The Ascanio Spread
• Children's Magic: Pranky Plaque
• Close UP Card Magic by Stuart Colligan
• That's The Way To Do It: Our series on Punch and Judy continues
• Character Analysis by Harold Long
• Magical Diary:...

• ...Phil Goldstein with a variation on a Peter Duffie effect.
• Simon Lovell with a letter from America
• News and reviews in and around the studio conducted by Geoff
• David Copperfield at Earls Court London - Ali Cardabra reviews the show
• Al Smith discusses 'Doing it by the book'
• Subscription information
• This years winners of the prize competition
• Basic card sleights. This month we discuss aspects of Card Forcing
• Part one of an exciting new series of Punch and Judy by Prof. Glyn Edwards
• Brand new competition is announced - with prizes. Your chance to become rich & famous
• 'You Dirty Rat' mental line taken by Mike Hopley

• So you...

• ...
  • ...Flunkies
  • What do you prefer for entertainment?
• CHAPTER III - How to Find Out What the Public Really Wants
  • The magic of attendance
  • Motion pictures
  • Stage musicals
  • Dramatic shows
  • Vaudeville
  • Night clubs
  • Burlesque
  • Opera
  • Concert
  • Ballet
  • The secret of the appeal of drama
  • Romance, rehearsal and punch
  • Specially written material
  • Unified routine
  • What show business reveals
  • Who gets the dollar?
  • Build to customer preferences
• CHAPTER IV - The Things Big Audiences Really Buy
  • Dissection for diagnosis
  • Analysis of audience appeals
  • Where the average magician misses
  • Make them like you in...

Numbers 245-248

285 pages

1. Vol. 44, Number 245, March, 1955 [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
1. Foreword - George Armstrong
2. The Zodiac Deck - Vivian St. John
   • A Card Vocabulary
   • Making the Zodiac Deck
   • Any Card Called For
   • The Colour Change Deck
     • To Show the Spot Cards Mixed
     • To Show the Spots All Black
     • To Show the Spots All Red
     • To Show the Backs All Red
     • To Show the Backs All Blue
     • To Show the Backs All Blue with Spots All Black
     • To Show the Backs All Red with Spots All Red
   • The Routine
     • The Brainwave Deck
     • Colour Change Routine
     • Any Card Called...

There is quite some confusion about this book, because there are American editions and British editions, some only with card magic, others with additional chapters on cups and balls and other non-card magic effects. The book we have reproduced was printed in London and it does include non-card items. We are reproducing the complete table of contents below.

This book was edited by W. H. Cremer as noted in the preface of Hanky Panky.

PRELIMINARY

PART I. - GENERAL TRICKS

• The Landlord and the Merrymakers
• To Show that an Egg contains a
• To Tell beforehand what Cards will be Chosen ...