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The Gen Volume 11 (1955)
by Harry Stanley & Lewis Ganson

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The Gen Volume 11 (1955) by Harry Stanley & Lewis Ganson
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On the covers are

  • Dai Vernon
  • Len Vintus
  • Herbert J. Collings
  • Billy McComb
  • Mystic Craig
  • Channing Pollock
  • Tonny van Dommelen
  • Corvelo
  • The Stanleys
  • Marconick
  • Ken Scholes
  • Charles A. Rosskam
384 pages
  1. Volume 11, Number 1, May, 1955, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Vernon on Stage
  2. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
  3. Correct Change - Charles Miller
  4. My Favourite Living and Dead Test - Dr. Raymond L. Beebe
  5. Red and Blue - Bob Haskell
  6. The Animated Mouse - Magini
  7. Front Page Personality - Vernon on Stage - Francis Ireland
  8. A Magician Explains - series by Lewis Ganson
    • Bags of Everything
  9. Salt Pour - Edward Marlo
  10. The 100% Prediction - Punx

  1. Volume 11, Number 2, June, 1955, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Len Vintus
  2. The "Okito" Coin Box - Edward J. McLaughlin
  3. "All Backs" Thanks to Dai Vernon - Hans Trixer
  4. Len Belcher Presents - On A Plate
  5. A Magician Explains - series by Lewis Ganson
    • Frederica's Close-Up Thimble Routine
  6. Silent Thought Reading - Tom Sellers
  7. Front Page Personality - Len Vintus, who talks about the I.B.M. and its Beginnings
  8. Serl Taunt - Taunts
  9. Notice to Quip - series by Richard Merry
    • No. 7 - Wands

  1. Volume 11, Number 3, July, 1955, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Herbert J. Collings
  2. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
  3. Penetrating Coin - Tenkai
  4. Ken de Courcy's Practicalities - series
    • The Rising Cards
      • Impromptu-Rise
      • Sleeve-Rise
      • Cardboard Box Riser (I)
      • Cardboard Box Riser (II)
      • Cellophane-Rise
  5. Out and About with Ken Brooke - series
  6. Stuntrix - quick tricks compiled by Ken Scholes and Lewis Ganson
  7. My Prediction - Corvelo
  8. A Magician Explains - series by Lewis Ganson
    • Charles Harrison's "Coins Across"
  9. Notice to Quip - series by Richard Merry
    • No. 8 - Silks, Hanks, Flags, etc.
  10. Front Page Personality - Herbert J. Collings
    • Fifty Magical Years - Francis White
  11. Genial Gerry's "Ancient Prediction Test Modernised" - Gerry Findler

  1. Volume 11, Number 4, August, 1955, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: The Pittsburgh Delegation [?]
  2. Review - comments from Harry Stanley about the 1955 I.B.M. Convention in Pittsburgh
  3. You Van Tell Fortunes - E. Malcolm Davison
  4. Well Done - Australia! - Fourth Convention of Australian Magicians
  5. Welcome - Channing Pollack! - to the London Palladium
  6. Card Mirage - Frederica
  7. New Leaf - Len Belcher
  8. Ken de Courcy's Practicalities - series
    • The Poor Man's "Milko"
    • Four-Ace Pre-Fix
  9. Coins Through the Table - Tom Sellers
  10. Notice to Quip - series by Richard Merry
    • No. 9 - Paper, Watches and Miscellaneous
  11. A Magician Explains - series by Lewis Ganson
    • Aenigma's Penetrating Pennies
  12. Comedy Levitation - Arnold de Seiver

  1. Volume 11, Number 5, September, 1955, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Mystic Craig
  2. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
  3. Underfan - Tom Sellers
  4. Crazy Mixed-Up Cards - Ken Scholes
  5. Ken de Courcy's Practicalities - series
    • March Mystery
  6. A Letter From ... Leslie May - about Tom Sellers' "A Novelty Speller"
  7. Silken Flight - Frederica
  8. Front Page Personality - Mystic Craig
  9. Ravelli's "Coin to Button" - Ronald Wohl (Switzerland)
  10. One for the Birds - Mystic Craig
  11. This is Nice - letters of appreciation from readers
  12. A Magician Explains - series by Lewis Ganson
    • My Routine with Devano's Rising Cards
  13. Jimmy Rogers' "Bill Tube Routine" - Harry Stanley
  14. Len Belcher Presents - That Doggie

  1. Volume 11, Number 6, October, 1955, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Channing Pollock
  2. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
  3. Ravelle and Andree present - The Spider and the Fairy - An Ideal Effect for the Kiddies, Especially, the Young Ones
  4. A Quartet from Tom Sellers
    • Novelty Dice Prediction
    • Predicted from the Papers
    • Chosen Ring on Silk
    • The Dropped Loops
  5. Front Page Personality - Channing Pollock
  6. The Ectoplasmic Cigarettes - Rupert Gilbert
  7. Ken de Courcy's Practicalities - series
    • Psychothetic Silks
  8. Len Belcher Presents - Minnie Loo
  9. The Winning Hand - Magini
  10. Notice to Quip - series by Richard Merry
    • No. 10 - Eggs
  11. A Magician Explains - series by Lewis Ganson
    • Magic from the International Congress, Amsterdam, Part One
      • Chinese Bowl and Chop Stick - Fred Kaps
      • Three Card Monte - Ravelli (Switzerland)
      • Aenigma's Magic Paint Brush

  1. Volume 11, Number 7, November, 1955, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Tonny Van Dommelen
  2. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
  3. Mrs. Gogarty - Ron Baille
  4. Front Page Personality - Tonny Van Dommelen
  5. Ken de Courcy's Practicalities - series
    • Grant Suffix
  6. Len Belcher Presents - A Century of Sympathy
  7. Ravelle and Andree present - Talking of Thumb-Tips
    • 1. - Indestructible Silk
    • 2. - Four Rounds - One Square!
    • 3. - The Missing Link
    • 4. - Three Silks - Three Bags
  8. A Magician Explains - series by Lewis Ganson
    • Magic from the International Congress, Amsterdam, Part Two
      • Cups of Plenty - Marconick
      • The Human Alladin's Lamp - Mystic Craig
      • The Matchin' Cards - Ravelli
      • Double Peek Control - Ravelli
      • Coin Penetration - Phoa Yan Tiong
  9. Notice to Quip - series by Richard Merry
    • No. 11 - Impromptu

  1. Volume 11, Number 8, December, 1955, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Corvelo
  2. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
  3. Len Belcher Presents - Scheme with Colours
  4. Ken de Courcy's Practicalities - series
    • George F. Stuart's "Subject Normal"
  5. Notice to Quip - series by Richard Merry
      No. 12 - Liquids
  6. Coin-Over-Quickie - Gerald Kosky
  7. Front Page Personality - Corvelo
  8. Cards in Handkerchief Once More - Arnold de Seiver
  9. A Magician Explains - series by Lewis Ganson
    • Magic from the International Congress, Amsterdam, Part Three
      • Sympathetic Matches - Bento
      • Front Page Cards - Tonny Van Dommelen
      • Coin Vanish - Meier
      • The Corvelo-Trixer-Curry-Vernon Card Trick
  10. Ring on the Stick - Frederica

  1. Volume 11, Number 9, January, 1956, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: The Stanleys
  2. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
  3. Al Koran's "One Good Turn" - described by Lewis Ganson
  4. Stop Press! - The December Linking Ring publishes "Honors List"
  5. Len Belcher Presents - Silks of the Century
  6. Ken de Courcy's Practicalities - series
    • The Continental Coin Trick
  7. Stuntrix - Spasm Two - quick tricks compiled by Ken Scholes and Lewis Ganson
  8. A Magician Explains - series by Lewis Ganson
    • A Quartette of Quick Tricks
      • Zombie Card Rise - Eddie Ward
      • Routine for the Travelling Ace - Corvelo
      • Visible Card Change - Jimmy Rogers
      • Coin Cocktail - Ken Scholes
  9. A Trio from Tom Sellers
    • The Vanishing Card
    • The Flaming Twins
    • The Sympathetic Chinese Compass
  10. Front Page Personality - The Stanleys
  11. Coins and Beakers - Frederica

  1. Volume 11, Number 10, February, 1956, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Marconick
  2. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
  3. Follow My Leader - Edward Marlo (Chicago, IL)
  4. A Letter from Lewis Ganson - about Jimmy Rogers' "Visible Card Change" and Eddie Ward's "Zombie Card Rise"
  5. Ravelle and Andree Present - Ring, Rope, and Silks
  6. Milkectric - Frederica
  7. Front Page Personality - Marconick
  8. Magic a la Dior - Corvelo
  9. A Suggestion by Cigami (R. W. Corkling) about the "Hypnotised Rope"
  10. A Magician Explains - series by Lewis Ganson
    • Free Choice
  11. Routine for the Locking Bill Tube - Ken Brooke
  12. The Knot on the Corner - Tom Sellers

  1. Volume 11, Number 11, March, 1956, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Ken Scholes
  2. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
  3. Len Belcher Presents - Mesmerental
  4. Ken de Courcy's Practicalities - series
    • Three Thoughts
      • Ball-Point Business
      • Fantastic Feat
      • T.V. Squared Circle
  5. The Royal Transposition - Edward Marlo (Chicago)
  6. Magini's "Egg, Glass and Handkerchief" or "Kling Klang" - Lewis Ganson
  7. Front Page Personality - Ken Scholes
  8. Spots and Paddle Routine - Frederica
  9. A Magician Explains - series by Lewis Ganson
    • Jimmy Rogers' "Ring in Box"
    • Corvelo's "Bim Bam Boozle"
  10. Safety Rice Bowls - Tom Sellers

  1. Volume 11, Number 12, April, 1956, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Charles A. Rosskam
  2. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
  3. Len Belcher Presents - series
    • Hankrise
    • Thanks, Hen
  4. Dyeflyte - An Experiment in Disintegration - "Herb" Stonham (Canada)
  5. A Trio from Tom Sellers
    • The Card in Cigarette
    • Then Flight of a Number
    • Number Divination
  6. Front Page Personality - Charles A. Rosskam
  7. by Frederica
    • Tubes of Bacchus
    • Catchpenny or How to Lose Friends
    • Impromptu Vanishing Watch
  8. A Magician Explains - series by Lewis Ganson
    • Trevor Dawson's "Trevelly Coin"
  9. The Marlo Slip Cut - Edward Marlo (Chicago)
  10. by Alex Elmsley
    • A Minor Triumph
    • The Four Blanks

word count: 183499 which is equivalent to 733 standard pages of text