Magic & Conjuring: page 400

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...

Walter Gibson intended this book for the novice. All the tricks are quite easy to perform. And in the beginning under the heading "The Presentation of Card Tricks" Gibson gives very valuable advice on how to create a program and how to present it.

Nevertheless, the book is so good that even the intermediate and advanced card magician will be able to learn a lot from its pages.

This book was originally written by Walter B. Gibson for Houdini. Houdini's death in 1926 prevented him from putting it out, and Walter issued it under his own name. Ted Annemann considered it one of the best books in its field . ....

This is volume 3 of The New Conjurors' Magazine.

• No 1:
  • SPEAKING OF PICTURES: William Holden Maxwell, Ruth Dore
  • A THANK YOU FROM CONJURORS' STAFF
  • RIDDLE IN RED AND YELLOW: A Story about Chung Ling Soo by FULTON OURSLER
  • GIVE ME A RING - Edward M. Massey
  • CUPKAKES IN HAT - Burton Marks
  • SWORD-SORCERY - "Hen" Fetsch
  • FIFTEEN CARD TRICK - Stanley Beck
  • TORTURE BOX - Jay Berggren
  • ALONG WITH BLACKSTONE - Walter B. Gibson
  • MAGICIAN - SOLDIERS WANTED - Julien J. Proskauer: Featuring Statements to Conjurors' Readers by PRESIDENT TRUMAN and GENERAL EISENHOWER
  • TERRY LYNN - ON MAGIC
  • IMPROVED...

This is volume 4 of The New Conjurors' Magazine.

• No 1:
  • SPEAKING OF PICTURES: George Johnstone, Betty Johnstone
  • YOU'VE GOT TO USE "DYNAMITE" - Bruce Reynolds
  • CIRCUS BANDS - Warren E. Simms
  • THE GIRL AND THE LADDER - Harry Blackstone
  • THE VACUUM IMPOSSIBILITY - George Johnstone
  • SLIK SLEIGHTS - Bill Tarr
  • TRICKS I LIKE - Bill Chaudet
  • IN THE BAG - R. N. Menge
  • OVER THE DEALER'S COUNTER
  • ON THE MAGIC BOOKSHELF
  • HUMOROUS PATTER - Burling Hull
  • BURNT AND RESTORED BILL - John Scarne
  • THE BOTTOM STEAL - Mike Tannen
  • THE 17TH ANNUAL MAGI-FEST
  • CHINESE FLAG VASE OF ALL NATIONS - Okito
  • GAS...

This is volume 5 of The New Conjurors' Magazine.

• No 1:
  • Speaking of Pictures: Richiardi, Chang
  • Abracadabra by Arthur Buckley
  • A Man Named Le Roy by George LaFollette
  • The Atomic Gun by Eddie Joseph
  • East Indian Rope Trick by Felix Korim
  • Liquid Mystery by Andrew Smythe
  • New Three Coin Trick by George L. Kier
  • Chicanery by Chaudet
  • GABBATHA by Walter B. Gibson
  • On The Magic Bookshelf by G. E. T. and E. W. D.
  • Light Up by Richard Gray
  • Journeys Into Aladdinland by Glen E. Towns
  • Blending by George Johnstone
  • In The Hat by Don Jacobs
  • Backwards by P. A. Dohm, Jr.
  • Prediction by Martin Gardner ...

This is a lovely and unusual publication with more than 200 feats described. Walter B. Gibson had a magic column in the Public Ledger, a newspaper in Philadelphia. The entire run of his columns is collected in this publication.

You will find many simple magic tricks as well as some puzzles, stunts and brain teasers. While many will be familiar to most who have read similar collections of little tricks, there are a few real surprises I have not seen anywhere else.

1st digital edition 2013, 246 pages.

Table of Contents

11. Preface
13. The Balanced Egg
14. The Jumping Card
15. Coin In Handkerchief ...

This is a lovely collection of simple tricks, puzzles, brain teasers and other similar items. Each one is explained with text and an illustration.

• INTRODUCTION
• Tricks With Matches
  • Strike Safety Matches Without Box
  • Levitation of a Match Box
  • The Leaning Match
  • A Light That Failed
  • Which End Burns First?
  • Balancing a Match
  • The Mystic Matches
  • A Puzzle With Matches
  • A Square by Moving One Match
  • Self-Serving Match Box
• Tricks With Coins
  • Mysterious Sounding Money
  • The Changed Coins in Hand
  • Chosen Coin Picked Out
  • Coin Appears in Empty Box
  • A Puzzle With a Coin
  • Coin Balanced on Tumbler ...

Number 1 (April 1931)

• Editorial
• Downs Greets Blackstone
• Men Prominent in Magic Welcome the I. M. C.
• The International Magic Circle
• The First Convention
• Sensational Magic
  • Word from the Spirits
  • The Penetrating Silk
  • The Best Diminishing Ball
  • The Bewitched Cigarette
  • Dollar Divination Test
  • Clear Through / Edward Massey
  • How to Tell What a Man Thinks Before He Thinks It / Frank W. Thomas
• Something New in Magic
• Around the Magic Circle
• Magic Notes from Detroit
• Stage Effects
  • The Message from Mercury
  • The Girl and the Ladder
• Around the Ice-Box with "Dom"
• Effective Card Tricks ...

Number 1 (October 1931)

• Editorial
• Around the Magic Circle
• Sensational Magic
  • Bouquet to Fish Globe
  • The Chinese Rope
  • Large Coin Vanish
  • Divino
• Effective Card Tricks
  • Card Transposition
  • Improved Card Production / Dunninger
  • Car-Deck-O / Arnt
  • Improved Card Rising
• Stage Effects: The Tom Tom Illusion
• Around the Ice-Box with Dom
• Salo Ansbach
• Old Time Magicians No. 3 / A. F. Munroe
• Tricks and Travel / Robert G. Thrasher
• Magic for Pleasure or Profit
• Saginaw Meeting
• Color and Number
• The Odin Rings
• Poetic Patter

• Editorial
• Around the Magic Circle ...

Number 1 (April 1932)

• Editorial
• Around the Magic Circle
• Sensational Magic
  • Card Prediction / Dorner Scaramucci
  • Silk Production / Doc Nixon
  • Chemical Magic / Doc. Endlich
  • Silk-O-Drop / Clayton L. Jacobsen
• Amateur Contest: Robert Nelson
• Stage Effects
  • The Princess of Tepenac Illusion / Clayton L. Jacobsen
  • The Spooky Chair
  • Patriotic Finale / Ovette
• E. J. Moore
• Manipulative Magic
  • Vanishing Light Globe
  • Cigarette Vanish
  • Rub Away Coin
  • Perfection Coin Vanish
• The Nelson Cup
• Effective Card Tricks
  • Mathematical Card Mystery
  • Identical Thought
• Around the Ice-Box with...

Number 1 (October 1932)

• Editorial
• Why Is a Headliner? Harlan Tarbell
• A Talk to Card Enthusiasts / Eddie McGuire
• This 'n That / Mr. E
• Kansas City Notes / Dr. E. G. Ervin
• Manipulative Magic
  • The Lock Flap Jap Box / Glenn G. Gravatt
  • Monk Watson's Traveling Cigar Band
  • The Invisible Purse / Little Johnny Jones
• Sensational Magic
  • The Floating Wand / William Meyn
  • Balls Box and Cages
• U. F. Grant Says
• Nixonian News Shots
• Doings of The Society of Osiris / Ernest B. Marx

• Editorial
• Around the Ice-Box with Dom
• With the Dealers
• Sensational Magic ...

Number 1 (January 1934)

• Editorial
• Around the Magic Circle
• Stage Effects: The Mysterious Cocoanut Shell Fountain Illusion / Clayton Lowell Jacobsen
• Effective Card Tricks
  • Stand For Producing And Vanishing Cards / Signor Joseph Ovette
  • The Slide Discovery / Dr. Raoul Brochu
• European Section: A Rope And Ring Trick

• Editorial
• Around the Magic Circle
• Effective Card Tricks
  • Grant's Four Ace Trick / U. F. Grant
  • Reverse Reverse
• Stage Effects: The Target Of Doom Illusion / Clayton L. Jacobsen
• European Section: Affinity of Letters And Numbers / Will...

Walter Schwartz a member of the SAM and IBM wrote for many magazines among them The Sphinx. A total of 38 practical tricks is presented in this booklet. Not all effects are Walter's own, but many are. You can find quite a number of mentalism pieces, some card tricks, even a rabbit production is described.

1st edition 1933; 38 pages.

More than just a simple prop, the Square Circle is a terrific way to magically produce an incredible array of items ... right before the very eyes of your audience. Yet, there's no need to go out and buy one, when you can build your own, folding model Square Circle, using the convenient plans that are included in this handy guide. Profusely illustrated.

Already have a Square Circle? Great! You can use this ebook to get new ideas for loads and production items. Includes complete routines with patter for special occasions, exactly as presented by the author in nightclubs throughout the country...

Max Somerset is on the cover.

• Max Somerset talks to Mystery
• Paul Gordon's Patrol Dawn
• Barrie Richardson's Elegant Peek
• Chris Wardle's Crossed by Fate
• Malcolm Yaffe's Wa, Wa, Wah!
• Walt Lees's Can You Make My Wife Disappear?

November 2009; 32 pages.

Dynamo is on the cover.

• Dynamo in conversation
• Michael Lyth's Mirror Trick
• Chris Wardle's Long-distance Card trick
• John Helvin's Dead Man's Hand
• J-Day at The Magic Circle
• Roy Walton's Ghostly Poker

December 2009; 32 pages.

Jack Delvin is on the cover.

• Magic Circle President Jack Delvin talks to James Ward
• The International Magic Convention Reported
• Robert Bombassel's Son of a Gun
• Stephen Jones's Ace in the Hole
• Werner Miller's Angelina Knows

January 2010; 32 pages.

This recording gives all the secrets of grafting or pitching. Walt reveals the secrets that enabled him to earn a handsome living pitching such items as Svengali decks, the coin and glass, three card trick, and other tricks of the grafter's trade. You will find everything from the grafter's own language and terminology, to the pitches, and how to make the products.

Walt Lees is a born pitchman. His voice draws you in. It plays with your mind, you are getting interested, intrigued, fascinated, excited, until you can't hold it anymore - you must have this trick - you buy it, and the pitchman...

This recording contains excellent card effects with every detail carefully explained. The highlight is perhaps Walt's own Astrology/Mentalism routines actually used professionally by him for a number of years.

Originally released in the Martin Breese Magicassette series.

runtime 1 hour 20 minutes

This ebook holds extremely valuable information for anybody who would like to become a pitchman or grafter who sells Svengali decks and other items. Even if you do not sell as a pitchman, but perform on the street or other public venues you will learn quite a bit from Walt Lees.

Some of the points discussed are:

• Which magic tricks are suitable for pitching?
• Types of pitching
• Earnings and rewards
• Requirements of a good pitchman
• Styles of pitching
• Choosing a good site
• Peek selling times
• What to have with you
• Dealing with complaints, hecklers, pilferers, non-buyers, aggro merchants,...

I consider this among the very best card books ever written - and I have read an awful lot of card books. You might ask why a rather thin work from the 1980s would qualify for that high praise? There are three very good reasons for it.

One, Walt Lees has selected four absolute gems of card magic. He could have added fifteen other ok routines to make it look a lot more, but he has refused to pad his work with mediocre material. Good for him. There is already enough mediocre material published. It makes it a lot easier for the reader. You do not have to look for the gems. They are already right...

Everything I raved about for Four Professional Card Tricks from the Repertoire of Walt Lees is true for this one, too. Four great routines, explained in minute detail so that you do not only know what to do, but also how to do it, and biting self-deprecating humor that it is a joy to read. One other benefit this ebook has is that the photos are of much better quality.

• Foreword
• Matchochism
• Another Departure
• Hofzinser/Jennings
• Crazy, Mixed-Up Poker
• A Shank Shuffle Technique

1st edition 1981, 37 pages; 1st digital edition 2018, 60 pages.

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