Magazines & Journals in Magic & Conjuring: page 22

CONTENTS:

• LAZY MAN'S AMBITIOUS CARD (Arthur Carter): A spectator picks a card and this selection keeps appearing on the top of the deck. Some clever and original moves are displayed for this classic.
• ANOTHER FORECAST (David Britland): A selected card from a red-backed deck, matches a blue-backed card that you show at the beginning of the routine.
• TWO OF A KIND (Ian Rowland): A spectator cuts the deck himself and finds a card. You have predicted that card with a jumbo card.
• FIGURED FIGURES (Someeran): You show some cards with different numbers on both sides printed in red and blue. The spectator can...

CONTENTS:

• ROUTINE FOR FOOL'S MATE (Michael Symes): A different handling for the standard Nick Trost effect. A comedy of errors, with a strong climax.
• THE POWER OF FIVE (Arthur Carter): Here is yet another method of discovering a freely selected card. A spectator picks a number and with this in mind you find the selection.
• CARD PADDLE TRICK (Someeran): A selected card is revealed using a paddle, first you are apparently wrong where you reveal a 2S and then after a little bit of comedy by-play, you reveal the real card (which is the 4S).
• EASY OIL AND WATER (Aldo Colombini): The red and...

This magazine, consisting of 9 issues, was primarily Burling Hull's way to attack and undermine mentalist and dealer Robert Nelson of Columbus, Ohio. Burling Hull was known for his short fuse. He took issue with Robert Nelson criticizing him. Hull's revenge was to start this magazine and attack Nelson.

Hull would later sell reprints of Nelson's manuscripts, to whoever would buy them, for a fraction of what Nelson had been charging. This and other antics, got Hull booted out of the Magic Dealers Association.

1st edition 1959, 38 pages.

CONTENTS:

• SELLOTEST (Rex Taylor): A spectator chooses ANY word from a dictionary and you reveal that word. No questions asked.
• A TRIBUTE TO THE CARD STARS (Lewis Ganson): In a beautiful crescendo, you produce the four Queens, the four Kings and finally, the four Aces. A stunning routine.
• IMPOSSIBLE COINCIDENCE (Arthur Carter): The deck is shuffled by a spectator who deals four packets of cards. After that, four stunning coincidences are found.
• TURN OVER CARDS (Peter Rees): A spectator shuffles cards face up and face down and gives you a packet of cards. You turn over some cards and when the two packets...

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Vol. 9, No. 3, July 2013; 60 pages

Cover: Kevin James

5. Welcome – editor's letter
6. Letters
7. Flukes – article – Christopher Congreave
8. A Quick Catch Up with … Bob Swadling – Mark Leveridge
9. News
10. Pros and Cons – It's All a Metter of Opinion – Mark Leveridge
    • Should you include games in your children's shows, or just magic?
11. News
12. Luca Volpe – Italy's Golden Boy
16. All In Character, Part 2 – Morgan and West
20. In the Phone Box – with ace world record holder Thomas Blacke – Mark Leveridge
22. So You Want to be a … Creative Magician – Mark Leveridge
26. The Twins FX – Flying High (Without Wires) - interview ...

This is quite an unusual magic magazine. It ran from March 1992 to January 1994 with only 6 issues, but it was from the start planned that way. Each issue was formatted along the lines of another famous magazine from the past.

Martin Breese writes in his introduction:

Included in the lineup are Pentagram, The Magic Wand, Wizard, Max Andrews' Magic Magazine, Routine, The Wizard (Selbit).

Contents:

• Issue 1 (Pentagram)
  • Your Fate in a Teacup (Peter Warlock)
  • Octext...

CONTENTS:

• MATCHED SPELLOUT (Ken de Courcy): A card is selected (say the Ace of Hearts) and spelled. In the process four packets are dealt and the four Aces appear. Can be done in any language. Strong routine.
• JOKERS ALL (Ravelle and Andreé): You show three jumbo sized Jokers. A spectator picks a card from a deck and one of the Jokers is selected. This changes into a duplicate of the selected card.
• SPOTTED (Ravelle and Andreé): A card is freely selected among six jumbo cards. This card is the only one having a big spot on its back.
• PURE COINCIDENCE (Ulrich Keuler): A selected card appears in the...

CONTENTS:

• LASSOED (Les Woodcock): Three cards are selected. A piece of ribbon is placed into a bag with the deck. The ribbon is removed and now it has lassoed the three selected cards.
• THREE-WAY OPENING (Arthur Carter): Three big cards are shown with different geometric designs. A spectator picks one (free selection) and you show you have predicted it.
• THE FOUR ACES (Mark Weston): An Ace assembly where three cards are placed onto each Ace and the Aces disappear and reappear in one packet.
• THE CERTAINTY (Ravelle and Andree): You guess the name of a freely selected card.
• PUT AND TAKE (...

This final issue of volume two of TGM is full of "meats" - please read the following and judge for yourself. It must have set a record by including articles from the pen of three past IBM Int'l Presidents - Don Wiberg, Jep Hostetler and Ray Mangle - simply a prestigious issue!

The contents are …

• Let's have a chat - here in this space TGM openly discuss its success, failures, good or bad and everything - even a scoop is here in this issue.
• Past Glory of India - SN Dey - the generous magician is the profile LK Roy sketched in this issue. ...

CONTENTS:

• DATED CARD AND COIN EFFECT (George Blake): A spectator gives you a coin and four cards are selected from a deck. These cards reveal the date of the borrowed coin.
• COLOR WAVES (Arthur Carter): A great mental routine where you divine two selected colors.
• ROPED RING (Lewis Ganson): A ring penetrates the rope.
• RING-OFF (Rink): Same as above, a ring penetrates the rope and it becomes free.
• COLOR IN MIND (Ken de Courcy): You show three paddles of different colors. A spectator selects a paddle and you prove you predicted the selected color.
• BALL IN THE MIDDLE (Ian Adair): A rather unusual close-up mystery with a...

CONTENTS:

• DOMINATING DICE (Paul Marcus): A spectator thinks of a number and the card that falls at that number is taken. Using three dice, the spectator finds the selected card.
• STUCK (Joe Riding): A close up comedy coin routine with a very entertaining climax.
• DIS-COLOR (Ravelle and Andrée): Two discs of different colors are placed inside two envelopes and they change places. Everything can be examined.
• S.P.E.L.L.I.T (Francis Haxton): A card is selected and lost. You reveal three cards but none of them is the chosen one. You use one of these three cards, to get to the selected one. ...

This is a biting parody of the UK magic magazine Budget, the organ of the British Ring of the IBM. The parody was published by Geoff Maltby of Repro Magic. It was a supplement to one of the Club 71 issues in 1989. To understand all the fun they are poking at you will have to have read some of the Budget issues.

16 pages

This is a parody of a magic dealer catalog. The parody was published by Geoff Maltby of Repro Magic. It was a supplement to one of the Club 71 issues.

16 pages

This is a parody of an IBM convention program. The parody was published by Geoff Maltby of Repro Magic. It was a supplement to one of the Club 71 issues in 1991. If you have attended your fair share of conventions you will probably laugh a lot. I am not sure why this is in particular targeted at the IBM. Less than well organized conventions are not limited to any organization.

20 pages

Why do the same tricks everyone else is doing?

FEEN-X Magazine was an underground newsletter read by some of the top names in magic. Now it can be yours!

This e-book is the complete compilation of the first volume of FEEN-X from the year 2000.

Gregg Webb’s unique approach to magic is simple: create tricks and routines that veer off in a different direction. The result is magic that is strong – and subtle at the same time – hitting the audience where it counts.

101 pages long, this e-book was personally illustrated by Gregg Webb. (A professional artist, Gregg created cover art...

This ebook contains all 56 Masterclass effects taken from volumes 5-8 of Magicseen. Among the 40 different contributors you will find close up, stand up, children's material, mentalism and even a stage illusion from well known stars such as Wayne Dobson, JC Sum, Magic Dave, Jon Allen, Wayne Fox, Michael J. Fitch, Marc Spelmann, John Bannon, Paul Gordon, Peter Duffie and many more.

With many colour photo illustrations, this is a must-have collection of varied magic.

Contents:

• Ace of Hearts - Josef Kovacs
• Ring Off - Ring On - Alexander Allen
• Sharpie - Wayne Dobson
• Rockng Horse - Gerry Luff
• Marked Coin Antics - Mark Leveridge
• Poket Full of Miracles - Alexander...

CONTENTS:

• CABARET ROPE ROUTINE (Val Andrews): A complete act! 1. You stretch a piece of rope. 2. Throw a knot at the rope. 3. The knot is moved to the center of the rope and then it is pulled off the rope. 4. The rope is cut and restored. 5. The rope is cut and restored again. 6. You tie a loop in the rope and throw the scissors into it so that they hang from the loop.
• SIMPLICITY CARD IN WALLET (Mark Weston): As in the standard Card-in-Wallet. The name says it all. No palming.
• THE CARDICATOR (Frederica): An unusual, baffling way to reveal a selected card, using a locket on a chain.
• EASY ACES (Paul...

Magigram magazine ran from 1966 to 1995. It was printed by Supreme Magic Co. and edited with superb ability by Ken de Courcy. The collaborators were the best ever, just to name a few: Ken de Courcy, Edwin, Ian Adair, Peter Warlock, Max Maven, Lewis Ganson, Maurice Fogel, Arthur Carter, George Blake, David Britland, Pavel, George Johnstone, Billy McComb and a certain Aldo Colombini (I had a column for over 20 years on card magic written by Lewis Ganson).

CONTENTS:

• CARD LOCATION (Mark Weston): A spectator selects a card. The deck is dealt in three packets. A spectator selects a packet and on top of it, the selected card appears.
• THIMBLE THRU (Ken de Courcy): A thimble,...

This fifth issue of volume 2 of The Gimmick MagiZette is one more miscellanea of magical omnium-gatherum contributed by eminent artistes of the art of magic...

• Let's have a chat – Here the editor opens his heart and talks whatever he has to say … not even realizing that he possibly evokes boredom!
• Past Glory of India - L. K.Roy features in this issue a neglected and vanquished Magician K. D. Mukhuty.
• Magic as Entertainment – an article by late Harold Taylor of U.K. is a section from his book Magic as Entertainment based on his experiences.
• Chetoric – is about Doug Henning by...

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Vol. 9, No. 2, May 2013; 64 pages

Cover: Steve Cohen

5. Welcome – editor's letter
6. Letters
7. News
7. It's the Celebrity Bit – Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito
8. Brilliant Blackpool! – report on the Blackpool 2103 convention
10. All In Character, Part 1 – Morgan and West
16. Jay Fortune, The Secret Agent
    • The Agent Equation: Agent = Volume Paid Work
18. Stefan Olschewski, Mesmerizing!
    • Quickies!
24. The 7 Deadly Sins … of Table Hopping – Mark Leveridge
    • 1. Bad Timing
    • 2. Too Much Clutter
    • 3. Angle Poise
    • 4. Overstaying Your Welcome
    • 5. Avoiding Resets
    • 6. Projection and...

More magic from the pages of Peter Warlock’s legendary magazine.

CONTENTS:

• SYNONYMOUS SELECTION (Francis Haxton): Two decks of cards. You and the spectator pick a card each from each deck and, of course, they match.
• SIMPLE PREDICTION (Alex Elmsley): Two spectators each select a card. The cards have been predicted.
• FINESSE 1 AND FINESSE 2 (Peter Warlock): Two clever utility moves you will want to use for any standard cut and restored rope routine.
• THE G.D. COIN FOLD (Gus Davenport): A coin is wrapped in a piece of paper and it vanishes. The feature here is that the coin REALLY is wrapped all around...

More magic from the pages of Peter Warlock's legendary magazine.

CONTENTS:

• NEAR FUTURE (Karl Fulves): A prediction card is placed between two Aces. Any card is chosen from the deck and the prediction card turns out to be the chosen card.
• SECURITY PLUS (Francis Haxton): The four Aces are clearly seen between the two red Jacks. They disappear and reappear between the two black Jacks.
• MONTE PLUS (Trevor Lewis): A FIND THE LADY routine which gets away from the usual Monte throw and allows you full control over the Queen.
• THE LAZY MAGICIAN DOES A CARD TRICK (Al Koran): A very entertaining card trick where the spectator finds his own...

We all at TGM used to prompt a slogan to each other that "Never Late - Always Great!" Although, this fourth issue of TGM has beaten his own record and is a bit late - nevertheless, is as 'Great' as all other previous issues, in addition full of 'meats'. Just read about the contents and judge yourself.

• Let's have a chat – where Solyl thinks over reasons of TGM current issue being late!
• Past glory of India covers the life and magical journey of Dr. Kali Kankar Bannerjee - fascinating!
• Books Reviewed - this column by Joel A Moskowitz narrates The Show Doctor" by Jeff McBride, and "How...

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Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2013; 64 pages

Cover: Andy Nyman

5. Welcome – editor's letter
6. Letters
7. News
8. Ten For Tyneside – Martin Duffy: The Boss - interview
11. Focus On South Tyneside
    11. Sylvester The Jester: That's Not All Folks! - interview
    12. Paul Daniels: Crowd Pleaser! - interview
    13. Charlie Frye: Genius at Work! - interview
16. Hypnotism: Entertainment or Science? – Mark Leveridge
22. The Magic In The Cupboard – What Collectors Bring to the Art of Magic – Mark Leveridge
30. S.A.M.P.A. Does The Trick [Society of American Magicians Parent Assembly] – talk with Richie Magic
31. 20 Magic Headlines We'd Like to See in 2013
32. Andy...