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Blackstone Magic Comics
by Walter Gibson

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(1 review, 1 customer rating) ★★★★★

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Blackstone Magic Comics by Walter Gibson

This compilation holds electronic facsimile versions of the popular comics Blackstone, Master Magician, Blackstone The Magician Detective and Pennzoil Presents Blackstone Master Magician. Follow Blackstone on his daring adventures to save lives and catch the bad guys, using his knowledge as magician.

This electronic edition has been prepared from originals of James Kleefeld's collection. James was instrumental in making this electronic edition possible. We would like to thank James for his collaboration and work.

Blackstone, Master Magician started in 1946 and ran for three issues. It was renamed Blackstone The Magician Detective and began with new numbering immediately after. This second set ran for four issues. Pennzoil Presents Blackstone Master Magician was produced about the same time. It has 8 pages of comic format trick instructions.

Also take a look at the old time radio shows Blackstone the Magic Detective.

  1. Blackstone, Master Magician – Volume 1, Number 1 (unnumbered) Cover – 52 pages
  2. Blackstone Presents "From Film to Life"
  3. Blackstone and His Super Magic – his story
  4. tricks explained
    • The Domino Row
    • Magnetic Coin
    • Mental Matches
    • Immovable Fingers
    • Lucky Seven
  5. Blackstone Solves The Sealed Vault Mystery
  6. Blackstone does Magic; That You too Can Do
    • flipping match pack
    • The Magic Mark
    • The Vanishing Dime
    • Guess the Match
  7. back cover

  1. Blackstone, Master Magician – Volume 1, Number 2 Cover – 52 pages
  2. Blackstone Invades the Castle of Doom!
  3. Blackstone Talks about Magic!
  4. tricks explained
    • Think of a Number
    • Rapid Calculation
    • Reverse Twist
    • How Much Money?
    • Real Brain Work
    • Close Quarters
  5. Blackstone Shows You How to do Magic
    • The Famous Vanishing Card!
    • The Magic Banana!
    • The Great Vanishing Coin Trick!
    • The Six Glass Twister!
  6. Blackstone defies El Devi and the Desert Dervishes!
  7. back cover

  1. Blackstone, Master Magician – Volume 1, Number 3 Cover – 52 pages
  2. Blackstone and the Mystery of "The Midnight Express"
  3. Blackstone Solves the Riddle of the Vanishing Mummies!
  4. Harry Blackstone – by Maurice Zolotow
  5. Blackstone Battles the Fog Monsters!
  6. tricks explained
    • Blackstone's Multiplying Money Trick!
    • a quick knot trick
    • "Down" the Sleeve
  7. back cover

  1. Blackstone The Magician Detective – Issue Number 1 Cover – 44 pages
  2. Blackstone Fights the Stone Men of Vala!
  3. Foods in the United States
  4. Introducing The Happy Houlihans
  5. Blackstone's Vanishing Coin Trick – trick explained
  6. Blackstone Visits the Isle of Doom!

  1. Blackstone The Magician [Detective] – Issue Number 2 Cover – 36 pages
  2. Blackstone the Magician: "Costumed for Crime!"
  3. Advice to Comic Readers for Bad Skin - Betty Memphis
  4. Blonde Phantom – The Runaway Suspect!
  5. The Mystery Writer
  6. Let's Play Detective – Television Murder!
  7. Rhoda "Sleepytime Pal!"
  8. And this is how The Disappearing Coin Trick is Done!
  9. Blackstone the Magician: "Murder at Eight!"

  1. Blackstone The Magician Detective – Issue Number 3 (July) Cover – 36 pages
  2. Riddle of the Third Face!
  3. The Isle of Doom!
  4. Blonde Phantom in "Spotlight on Murder!"
  5. The Walls have Ears
  6. Mystery of the Rajah's Ruby!

  1. Blackstone The Magician Detective – Issue Number 4 (September) Cover – 36 pages
  2. The Border Smugglers
  3. The Spook Fakers!
  4. Blonde Phantom in "Identity Known!"
  5. Time On His Hands
  6. The Case of the Shadow of Mystery!

  1. Penzoil presents Blackstone Master Magician – Issue 1 (unnumbered) Cover – 8 pages
  2. Blackstone does Magic; That You too Can Do
    • flipping match pack
  3. The Magic Mark
  4. The Six Glass Twister!
  5. The Great Vanishing Coin Trick!
  6. tricks explained
    • Think of a Number
    • Rapid Calculation
    • Reverse Twist
    • How Much Money?
    • Real Brain Work
    • Close Quarters

word count: 103426 which is equivalent to 413 standard pages of text


Reviewed by Chet Cox (confirmed purchase)
★★★★★   Date Added: Sunday 15 July, 2012

The art was pretty darned good, and the scripts weren't bad either - ranging from VERY exciting to fairly entertaining. Gibson was one of those writers who was always strong on plot and mood - and with Blackstone, he had the best of all of his fanboy skills in play.

Walter Gibson loved magic. Can't ask for a better protagonist for mysteries starring a magician than Blackstone. - check Walter Gibson loved mysteries. The guy who created the character we know as The Shadow brings that same strong scripting here.

Walter Gibson loved comics. He may have disparaged them from time to time - the pay sucked mop water, and comics were generally frowned upon, especially from the late 1940s through the 1950s. But he never wrote down to his readers, and always gave us his best.

Whether comics, magic books, magic magazines, or pulp adventures, no one has done it better than Walter Gibson. And the many comics that he wrote of Blackstone were among his best!