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Spell-Binder MagazineStephen TuckerStephen Tucker was the publisher, editor, illustrator and creative genius behind Spell-Binder Magazine. It ran for three years and had 36 issues and 710 pages. (This does not include the three Special Issues.)
You will find some of the finest close-up magic effects: David Britland alone contributed 40 items, there were 6 new effects from Basil Horwitz, 4 from Jerry Sadowitz, 2 from Gazzo, 5 from Gordon Bruce, 3 from Roy Walton, 9 from Phil Goldstein, 12 from Reinhard Müller, 5 from Al Smith 2 from Bobby Bernard, 4 from Harvey Rosenthal, 7 from Ian Land, 12 from Paul Brignall, 7 from Peter Duffie, 6 from Roger Curzon, 6 from Shiv Duggal, 7 from Wayne Dobson and 109 from Stephen Tucker. Stephen has captured... | ★★★★★ $39 more than one type to choose fromPDF_facsimile PDF_facsimile (on CDROM) |
Chicanery MagazineStephen TuckerStephen Tucker is probably one of the craziest people you will ever meet in magic. He may be crazy but he also happens to be highly talented and a very creative person. He has invented many magic effects and has supported himself over the years by performing magic, inventing magic tricks and editing and producing magic magazines. He was the editor and publisher of the amazing Spell-Binder Magazine.
Chicanery is a worthy successor to Spell-Binder and most of the effects within its pages are by Stephen. He gave himself pen names and a typical Tucker touch is that the names are Pen Tell, Mark Erpen, Nick Fountain,... | ★★★★★ $23 more than one type to choose fromPDF_facsimile PDF_facsimile (on CDROM) |
Abacus Tuckered UpStephen TuckerA collection of Stephen Tucker's 18 contributions to Al Smith's Abacus magazine.
1st edition 2007; 37 pages.
- Play It Again Sam
- Out Of His Dimension
- Blackpool Blockbuster
- Imogination
- Spell My Number
- Thotdek
- Lady Luck
- Done Up Like A Dog’s Dinner
- Matterix
- Polygraph Pasteboards
- Pretty Polygraph
- The Return
- Shirning
- Faro Hate
- Staid Stacked
- Utility Poker
- Utility Poker Utilised
- Two Keys To Baldpate
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Spell Binder Volume 1Stephen TuckerA fabulous download DVD featuring four of the best tricks from Spell-Binder magazine. Martin Breese asked Stephen Tucker the creator of the magazine to choose four of the best tricks that he created for the magazine and he has selected four wonderful effects. Each is performed and then clearly explained move by move.
Watch the performances of all four routines below.
[Note: If you prefer a physical DVD disc please go to Martin Breese International.] | $20 to wish listMP4 (video) |
Spell-Binder Volume 1Stephen TuckerThis is volume 1 of the reprint of Spell-Binder Magazine. Each volume is a half-letter size softcover with a color cover and black and white print throughout. Volume one includes issues 1-12. Spell-Binder Magazine was a fascinating publication edited by Stephen Tucker which focused on close-up magic featuring an eclectic list of contributors.
Spell-Binder started in 1981. Reprint in 2004 by Martin Breese. | $18 to wish listsoftcover |
Spell-Binder Volume 3Stephen TuckerThis is volume 3 of the reprint of Spell-Binder Magazine. It is a half-letter size softcover with a color cover and black and white print throughout. Volume three includes issues 25-36.
Spell-Binder Magazine was a fascinating publication edited by Stephen Tucker which focused on close-up magic featuring an eclectic list of contributors.
Spell-Binder started in 1981. Reprint in 2004 by Martin Breese. | $18 to wish listsoftcover |
Complete Torn and Restored Card EbookStephen TuckerWay back in 1984 Stephen published a strange looking booklet on the 'Torn and Restored Card' effect called The Torn and Restored Card Book. Three routines formed the content, but the most striking thing about the publication was that the booklet was actually torn in half!
It was still a complete piece of work, but the appearance was that of half a book. It soon sold out, probably due to its novelty value. It was updated and re-printed in 1986 with additional material.
Around that time Stephen's good friend David Britland published a solution to a card-problem of his in his Tearing A Lady in Two manuscript. However, it did... | ★★★★★ $17 to wish listPDF |
ACAANStephen TuckerAny Card At Any Number - You table a cased deck, then remove a small, thin note-pad from your shirt pocket and ask one person to name any card. Let's assume he says, "The Queen of Spades." You record this on the pad. You next ask a second person to name any number from 1 to 52. Let's assume this person says, "22". You record this too, then pick up the cased deck. You remove the cards and show that they are all different. You hand the deck to one of them, and ask that he deals down to the 22nd card... it's the Queen of Spades!
If you would like to inject a little comedy, once the card and... | ★★★★★ $17 to wish listPDF |
Card Bored?Stephen TuckerOut of print since 1992, but now converted from printed form to e-book. Seventeen terrific routines - illustrated.
Within you will encounter thirteen of Stephen's very best card routines, three magic-square effects (with a difference) and one purely numeric item that is a step sideways from the original inspiration. That 'step sideways' is really the key here! Stephen has tried to look at things from a slightly different direction. One not normally explored. Sometimes with very interesting results!
- Introduction
- Out Of This Dimension
- The Square Comes Full Circle
- Doubly Impossible
- Back...
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Taking Liberties: the U.S. Card BookStephen TuckerAn early publication filled with routines from the creative mind of Stephen Tucker.
1st edition 1984; 56 pages
Table of Contents
- Intro
- Shaken And Stirred
- Double Vision
- Sounds Too Good To Be True
- Space Oddities
- Halve Your Oil Bill
- Generation Gaps
- They're Back
- Unburied Treasure
- Laundering
- Black Power
- Throwaway
- Silent Running
- Within Your Reach!
- Poles Apart
- The Born Leader
- Overnight
- Between The Lines
- Splash!
- On And On And On And On And On...
- Sledgehammer
- Top Secret
- Queen Of Controversy
- Girl Talk
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CompendiumStephen TuckerA mind-shattering collection of close-up magic. You will encounter 50 fantastic effects. 27 are novel and original card miracles. 8 are with coins and the other 15 utilize such objects as sponge balls, keys, pens, ESP cards, bottles, matches, and more.
Many illustrations accompany the text and all effects detailed are within the reach of the average performer.
1st edition 1984, 101 pages; 1st digital edition 2011, PDF 119 pages.
Table of Contents
- Cards
- Intro
- Kidnapped
- Plotting His Course
- Profile
- Two Faced
- Beauty As Well As Brains
- And The Winner Is...
- Viewpoints
- A Vision...
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Thought WavesStephen Tucker20 mentalism effects with a foreword by Max Maven. Out of print since 1985. Now again available as ebook.
From the foreword by Max Maven:
There is no question that Stephen Tucker has made his mark on the magic world...and it's about time someone made him clean it up!
The first time we met, I noticed that he had a streak of white hair in the center of his otherwise black coiffure. This gave him a very modern New Wave look, and I complimented him on his clever grooming.
He explained to me that the streak was not artificial, but rather an inherited family trait.
I'd had no idea that... | $16 to wish listPDF |
3 Card TrickStephen TuckerINSTANT RE-SET! VERY EASY TO PERFORM!
Someone tries to find the queen amongst two jokers, but fails every time. You pocket the queen, and ask them to find the black and white joker... they fail again as... all three cards are queens!
Holding three face down jumbo(ish) sized playing cards you say, "These cards may look very large, but they aren't... it's just that I have very small hands." As you patter, you show the cards to be two jokers and... a queen.
You explain that they are to ignore the jokers and... try to follow the queen.
You now mix the three cards very quickly as you... | ★★★★★ $15.50 to wish listPDF |
Silver Where?Stephen TuckerAn incredible transposition of a fork and a spoon.
Showing a fork and a spoon you mix them, undercover of your hands, then ask someone to guess which is the fork. They guess and are either correct or wrong. You clearly place the spoon in your breast pocket, with the handle protruding. Suddenly, the fork in your hand becomes the spoon! The spoon in your breast pocket turns out to be... the fork!
No magnets or sleights! Can be performed without a table (ideal for strolling or at cluttered tables) and everything can be examined at the end. This was developed to link with Stephen's Mind-Power routine.
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The 33 Cardinal SinsStephen TuckerMore than 30 card effects and 7 bonus coin routines.
1st edition 1984, 70 pages; PDF 87 pages.
Table of Contents
- Dunbury Well
- Judy
- Distraction
- Back From The Brink
- All Change!
- Creating A False Impression
- Olympia
- Variations
- Those That Do And Those That Don't
- Open Till Late
- Short Break
- Con Tents
- Compute
- Chicken Curry
- Fake!
- Back For Seconds
- Sufferer
- Superking
- Enigma
- Day Of Reckoning
- Incentive
- Three's Company
- Mimik
- Zig Zag Zone
- Revisit
- Twist And Twist Again
- Better By Half
- Xtro
- Less Choice
- Sell Out!
- Trouble Spots
- Paradise Twins
Bonus Section
- Glassgo
- The...
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The Card-Mad-gic of Stephen TuckerStephen Tucker23 fantastic card routines.
1st edition 1984, 52 pages; PDF 61 pages.
Table of Contents
- Who's The Dirty Rascal?
- Stitches In Time
- Footsteps
- Just A Few Wrinkles…
- Breaking The Silence
- Doppelgaenger
- Tried And Twisted
- Rock Around
- The Inner Limits
- Scanner
- Withdrawal
- All Heart
- The Dance Master
- Raiders Of The Last Ace
- Indexlink
- Revealed
- Face
- Finding New Strength
- Thoughts!
- Weekend
- Ambassador
- Empress
- Mirage
- The Brail Deck
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Cardiac PacemakersStephen TuckerStephen Tucker's classic Cardiac series revived as an ebook. This is the first part of the trilogy.
1st edition 1983, 36 pages; PDF 44 pages.
Table of Contents
- Mexican Revelation
- The Nervous Card
- Upstaged
- Encounters Of The Fourth Kind
- May The Force Be With You
- Fast Moves
- The Centre Of Attention...
- Only Jo
- Diversity
- Cops And Robbers
- Down Under
- Under Observation
- The Time Warp
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Cardiac StimulationStephen TuckerStephen Tucker's classic Cardiac series revived as an ebook. This is the second part of the trilogy.
1st edition 1984, 36 pages; PDF 40 pages.
Table of Contents
- Total Control
- Henchmen
- Going Nowhere
- Cutting Remarks
- The Alternative
- Edge Hog II
- III
- Chinese Tuckaway
- To Have And To Hold
- A Sticky System
- In The Best Of Taste
- The Other Side
- You Only Get Out What You Put In. Or Do You?
- Pneumatic
- For Whom The Belle Told
- Snap And Tickle
- Bye!
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Cardiac ArrestStephen TuckerStephen Tucker's classic Cardiac series revived as an ebook. This is the third part of the trilogy. 20 stunning effects.
1st edition 1984, 40 pages; PDF 49 pages.
Table of Contents
- Intro...
- Making Light
- Cocktail
- Busy Doing Nothing
- Conversaceon
- So Be It!
- Royal Passage
- Oil Well That Ends Well
- The Tuckount
- Face Value
- Spot The Difference!
- Case In Question
- Back From The Front
- A Passing Interest
- There Must Be A Catch
- So What Else Is New?
- You Must be Psychic
- Electron
- Mohammed
- Disgracefull
- Over And.......
- Bye.....
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SherlockStephen Tucker
"I really enjoyed all of these routines! Very nice. The White House is especially cool!" - Cameron Francis.
"You have some very nice thinking in these variations." - Peter Duffie.
As one of Martin Breese's customers I recently received a newsletter from him that drew my attention to a routine of Peter Duffie's called IDEAL HOLMES. It's a really great self-working routine, and this is what happens...
A regular deck of cards is shuffled and then cut by someone a couple of times. You take back the cards and spread them between your hands and have one FREELY selected by someone. He places the card directly... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
The Best of Spell-Binder Collection OneStephen TuckerEighty-five tricks and routines from the pages of Spell-Binder Magazine. Everything from card and coin magic to the bizarre and the weird.
Effects explained are:
- Sandwich Box by Stephen Tucker -- Signed selected card appears between 2 previously selected cards within closed card case.
- Mark by Stephen Tucker -- Alternate version of previous effect.
- Demonology by Bob Ostin -- Spectator signs card. Flames cause occult symbol to change to slip of paper with name of signed card. Signed card then revealed to have singed corner & occult symbol on back.
- Esti-Mate-Ion by Joe Dignam -- Spectator looks through deck...
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This, That and the OtherStephen TuckerThis is a miracle trick from the fertile, inventive and, dare we say, dangerous mind of Stephen Tucker.
You have three red-backed cards: two cards marked THIS one card with the word THAT. All you have to do is keep your eye on THAT but most of the time you get THAT wrong and it is THIS and when you get THIS and THAT wrong suddenly the back of THIS turns blue!
At the end of the routine you deal the three cards down on to the table and a new card appears bearing the word OTHER. So you have to explain as you deal the cards that to do this trick properly you will need THIS, THAT and a bit... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF & MP4 |
Spell Binder Volume 1 (for resale)Stephen TuckerA fabulous DVD featuring four of the best tricks from Spell-Binder magazine. Martin Breese asked Stephen Tucker the creator of the magazine to choose four of the best tricks that he created for the magazine and he has selected four wonderful effects. Each is performed and then clearly explained move by move.
Watch the performances of all four routines below.
| DVD |
For Your Eyes OnlyStephen TuckerThis special little periodical, which only saw six issues, was sent to subscribers of Spell-Binder magazine, but could also be purchased on its own. It only saw a very limited distribution. As is common with Stephen Tucker publications, it features unusual items. Tucker included with most issues some gimmick (special cards, etc.). These gimmicks are not included in this digital reproduction, however you will see photos of the gimmicks, which will allow you to find or make your own.
Issue 1: May/June 1982
- Multum in Parvo
- Alchemy
- Odd Job
Issue 2: July/August 1982
- Multum in Parvo
- Before Assembly
...
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Red Hot PokerStephen TuckerThe core effect is that you play a game of Poker, using just ten cards, with one other player. They choose which five cards they would like, and you take the rest. Incredible as it sounds... they receive a Full House, whilst you always win with a Royal Flush!
NOTE: please don't confuse Red Hot Poker with the old "ten card poker" routine played with three sets of 'three of a kind' and a single 'odd' card. There you had to make them choose the 'odd' card in order for you to win. The routines here are nothing like that!
As a special related bonus item, Peter Duffie has very kindly allowed me to include... | ★★★★★ $14 to wish listPDF |
OmegaStephen TuckerThe world's only examinable B'Wave - Two sets of blue Bicycle backed aces are shown. You table one set face down and have someone name any ace. With the other set behind your back, you manage to reverse their named ace (big deal!) However, you now spread the tabled set and their ace has magically reversed there too!
Next, you hand someone your set of aces and, whilst in their hands, the face of their ace vanishes and the backs of the other three change from blue to red! (They are now examinable!)
Finally, someone picks up the tabled set and, with the cards in their hands, their ace becomes... | ★★★★★ $14 to wish listPDF |
The Immaculate ConceptionsStephen Tucker13 close-up effects from the twisted mind of Stephen Tucker.
35 pages.
Table of Contents
- Tucker Trip
- Cluster
- Foiled
- Small Change
- Half & Half
- Abort
- Xact
- Hypno
- Omni
- Satan’s Card
- Domino Match
- Whoops
- Malfunction
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The Mind MapStephen TuckerYou remove from your pocket four sections of a large, full-color, treasure map and jig-saw them together. There are 58 possible locations, and someone is asked to imagine that they have buried all their worldly goods at one of these locations.
You now start to deduce, letter-by-letter, the name of their thought of location. However, way before you have called out all the letters, you stop, pick up the four pieces, stick a label onto one of them and hand it to the spectator face down. He reveals where he mentally buried his things, and discovers that you stuck the label, with an X drawn on... | $12.50 to wish listPDF |
Close Up SorceryStephen TuckerThis is the very first publication Stephen Tucker ever released. For some this will be a good thing for others not. I personally always enjoy to see the early creations of a now famous magician.
Routines:
- Pegasus
- Small Change
- Music To My Ears'
- The Polaroid Wallet
- The Sound Barrier
- The Thimble Thumble Vanish
- Sealed Future
- S.H.C.
- Faster Than The Eye Can See
1st edition 1978; original 18 pages; PDF 26 pages. | ★★★★★ $12.50 to wish listPDF |