Magazines & Journals in Magic & Mentalism: page 44

The Hermit Magazine is a new, independent magic magazine that focuses on creativity, engagement, and inspiration. Edited, compiled, and illustrated by Canadian magician Scott Baird, The Hermit pays homage to the magazines of the past while taking advantage of modern technology to provide a clear, readable experience. Featuring contributions from the likes of Chris Mayhew, Harapan Ong, Michal Kociolek, Curtis Kam, Michael Rubinstein, Bill Citino, Rick Holcombe, John Carey, Caroline Ravn (and many more!), the digital pages of The Hermit are packed with articles, effects, sleights and ideas for magicians of any skill level.

Volume 1,...

Vol. 18, No. 1, March 2022; 60 pages Cover: Michael Finney

2. cartoon (advertisement for Magic Dave)
4. Welcome to Issue #103 - Editor's comments
4. The Team
4. What's Inside
6. In The Phonebox with Rick Moranis
8. Michael Finney - A Pocketful of Laughs - cover article/interview
14. Reader's Letters
16. The Dealer's Booth - Discount Magic
20. Masterclass
    • The Repeater - Liam Montier
22. Masterclass Classic
    • Simplex Hopping Halves - Mark Leveridge
23. Win a Copy of the Reprint of Will Goldston's "Who's Who in Magic"
25. Going Back with Graham Jolley - 5 Minutes with the Hilarious Master Mentalist
26. The 7 Deadly Sins of ... Magic...

• Albert Goshman
• Card & Bill Idea
• Impromptu Eye Surgery
• A Rose By Any Other Name---
• Mystery Magazine Book Test
• The Golf Balls & Hat
• Liquid Production
• Magic With Trading Stamps
• Safety Magic
• The Four Fours
• Yeager's New Ones
• Sucker Knife Finale
• Faro: The Game With A Past
• Our Profile: Bob Arno
• The Zombie By John
• "Other Magicians..."
• Preface
• The Anna Eva Fay Act
• Kirk Stiles' Magic Coloring Book
• New Wrinkles For Torn Cards
• Miki's Methods
• The Fun Bottle
• Our Cover

• Par Avion Via Air Mail
• World's Unique Magic Bartender
• Thimbles Unanimous
• Visible 20th Century Silks
• Bouquet Production
• Silk-N-Cups
• Twin Pipe Trick
• "Poor Man's" Roll-On Table
• Thoughts On Ranch Bird
• New Routines For Your Shelved Magic
• On Misdirection
• Two Ideas
• Kid Trick With A Rope
• Gung Ho Box Routine
• Impromptu Atomic Routine
• Knot Routine
• Magic Helper
• Written In Blood
• Loads Of Fun
• Cat's Eyes
• Hocus Pocus With Chop Cup
• Every Magician Has One!
• Comedy Sawing Ending
• A Smart Opening
• You, Too, Can Tie A Turban
• Technicolor Prediction
• Three By Jack Avis
• Red And Black
• Double...

This Year Book includes a wonderful article on the Chicago magic bar scene by Jay Marshall. It originally appeared in Rogue Magazine.

• When Old Friends Meet
• Shades Of Sorcery
• The Safety Magician
• Safety, A United Effort
• The Vanisher
• Tips On This And That
• Dots A Dandy Presentation
• Trickities 3
• Coin Combination
• Die Box Routine
• Bubble Trouble
• Fingerless Psycho
• Grant Plus Karrell Fox
• A New Card Spatula
• Two Tips
• Southern Accent
• Table Trick
• The World Of Illusion
• Patter For Neil Foster’s Center Tear
• An Original Coin Comedy
• The Many Uses Of Chen Lee
• Squaring The Circle
• Pet...

The Hermit Magazine is a new, independent magic magazine that focuses on creativity, engagement, and inspiration. Edited, compiled, and illustrated by Canadian magician Scott Baird, The Hermit pays homage to the magazines of the past while taking advantage of modern technology to provide a clear, readable experience. Featuring contributions from the likes of Chris Mayhew, Harapan Ong, Michal Kociolek, Curtis Kam, Michael Rubinstein, Bill Citino, Rick Holcombe, John Carey, Caroline Ravn (and many more!), the digital pages of The Hermit are packed with articles, effects, sleights and ideas for magicians of any skill level.

Volume 1,...

• The Homemade Magician
• Penny Dime Transposition
• On The Spot
• Out-Witted
• Loaded Spook
• Dark Thoughts
• Impromptu Twentieth Century Silks
  • Eggs From Handkerchief
  • Another Here, There And Everywhere
  • Tip For Anti Gravico
  • A House Of Cards
• Now What?
• Tuning Up
• By Chance Alone
• A Self Lighting Candle
• The Blue Quints
• Silks From Nowhere
• Three Golden Pyramids Of The Valley Of Oom
• Tom Fitzgerald's Passe Passe Bottles
• New Use For A Forcing Deck
• Rope Records And Ribbon
• Card Telepathy De Luxe
• The Flight Of Thought
• The Mystic Ringer
• A Portfolio Of Bar And Close Up Tricks
  • A "Long" Card...

The Hermit Magazine is a new, independent magic magazine that focuses on creativity, engagement, and inspiration. Edited, compiled, and illustrated by Canadian magician Scott Baird, The Hermit pays homage to the magazines of the past while taking advantage of modern technology to provide a clear, readable experience. Featuring contributions from the likes of Chris Mayhew, Harapan Ong, Michal Kociolek, Curtis Kam, Michael Rubinstein, Bill Citino, Rick Holcombe, John Carey, Caroline Ravn (and many more!), the digital pages of The Hermit are packed with articles, effects, sleights and ideas for magicians of any skill level.

Volume 1,...

• About The Year Book . . .
• A Detective's Dream
• New Effect For The Color Changing Knife Routine
• Card Force For The Stage
• Knock Out Prediction
• Unsigned - Sealed - Delivered
• Thumb Fun
• Comedy Bit With The Wrist Chopper
• The Easy Comedy Golf Ball Routine
• Self Working Double Load Lota, With A Comedy Routine
• A Modern You Do As I Do Trick
• The Invisible Card Routine
• Rubber Ice Cream Cone Routine
• The Boomerang Card
• Jack Yeager's Portfolio Of Magic Tricks And Ideas
  • A Bar Gag
  • "Flash" Cigarette In Handkerchief
  • The Yeager Four Ace Trick
  • Card In Egg Routine De Luxe
  • Intimate Bottle Levitation ...

• About The Year Book............
• The Community Chest Card Trick Or The Red Feather Card
• Community Chest Routine And Patter For The Square Circle
• New Idea For The Paddle Trick
• Restless Cigarettes
• Rabbit Out Of Top Hat
• Stage Size Out To Lunch Trick
• The Golf Ball "Egg" Bag
• To Vanish The Last Ball
• A Switch For The Mentalist
• Nice Doggy!
• Paper
• Glorifying Your Magic
• A Flash Paper And Match Stunt
• Joseph Dongu's Do As I Do Trick
• Production Load
• My Favorite Rising Card
• The Never Ending Tie
• Do You Drink?
• Producing Two Flashes Of Flame
• Billiard Ball To Playing Card
• Cashing In On Close...

4. The Team
4. Editor's comments
4. Contents
6. In The Phonebox with Elizabeth Lail
6. Festive Facebook
8. The Sentimentalists - Mind Games - cover article/interview
14. Reader's Letters
16. Ben Earl - Two Minutes with The Master - interview
20. Impact - The Effect of Covid on the Kid Show Market - Mark Leveridge
22. Masterclass
    22. Crime Doesn't Pay - Pat Fallon
    25. Rimm Ramm Ree - Douglas MacGeorge
26. Shop Talk - Nathan Buzza from Illuminati Magic - interview
28. Luca Volpe - Fool Us - interview
29. One Liners
30. The Magician's Elephant - A Musical by the RSC
34. Selecting Magic to...

• Introduction
• Tying And Untying Knots In A Cord Without Letting Go Of The Ends
• The New And Improved Ink Handkerchief And Turnip Trick
• A Checker Mystery
• Carlton King's Rabbit Box
• Ice Cream Cone Production
• A Dollar Bill In Candle Effect
• Nelson's Candle Trick
• Bossie Cow
• The Shrinking Glass Of Milk
• Words And Music
• The Jack Yeager Thumb Tie Trick
• The N. E. Book Test
• Three Linked Discoveries
• Triple Climax To Cups & Balls
• The Stripper Combine
• Glendi's Mental Photography - The Dream Photograph
• Magic In Milk Containers
• Thimble Box
• Clock Dial Card Prediction

• My Blendo Load
• Amazing Coincidence
• You Can't Lose - Apparently!
• Okito Goes Mental
• My Favorite Routine With Otto The Duck
• Two Tips On Tricks
• One Card In 52
• Dice Stack Addenda
• A New Idea On Rising Cards
• Confetti And Milk
• Method For An Unprepared Blendo
• Drink Your Milk
• Cut Ribbon Gag
• About Tables
• Wine To Beer A Chemical Trick
• Utility Glass
• The Floating Glass
• Candy From The Air
• Paper Lady An Illusion For Production Of A Girl
• An Addition To Reversette
• The Crystal Flame
• The Magic House
• Checkers To Pear To Rice
• Colossal Glass Of Beer Production
• Tic Tac Toe - A Super Mental...

4. The Team
4. Editor's comments
4. Contents
6. In The Phonebox with Kang-Ho Song
6. Facebook News
8. Kat Hudson - From the East Coast to the West End - cover article/interview
14. Reader's Letters
16. Leeds Magic Convention - How we arranged a one day magic convention in four weeks - Chris Stewart
18. Don't Squander Your Magic Earnings - Wolfgang Riebe
22. The Masterclass Classic
    22. Silk Away - Tony Griffith - Final Reflections (2009)
    24. Luck of All Men - A Magick from Brian Johnson
23. United Kingdom Escape Artists News & Awards 2021
26. speaking to the Right People...

Who would have thought the US Armed Forces had a magicians association? The association was started by Opie Houston, then an Air Force Sergeant. At Ease was the organ of the Armed Forces Magicians Association. It ran from July 1966 until January 1975, but it had some gaps here and there and was not released on a particularly regular schedule.

Some of the trick contributors were Opie R. Houston, William E. Clover, Erwin M. Storke, Vernon Weiss, Bob Ford, Don Guilmain, Dave Richards, Harvey Turner, Kent Cummins, Ed Middleton, Prince Kazar, Jim Williams, Chas Crowley, John Guthrie, Arthur...

• The Unique Twentieth Century Silks
• Glen Gloye's Necktie Trick
• Practical Suggestions For The Welsh Rarebit Pan
• Card Filtration
• Back To Back
• Betchas
• The Magic Sharpshooter
• Reversette
• An Original Routine With The Milk Pitcher And Other Items Most Magicians Have
• Wild Beer
• My Favorite Card Routine
• Cold Fire — The Magic Torch
• The Earl Morgan Floating Ball
• Using A Dart Board
• Balloon To A Bouquet Of Flowers
• The Hindu Rope Trick
• The Z Ray Box
• The Inexhaustible Hat
• Tantalizing Thimbles
• Rodeo Magic
• "That's All" Wand
• A New Idea On The 20th Century Trick
• The Joe Sherman Spelling...

Enjoy the great mental magic by contributors such as Al Koran, Bill Miesel, Peter Warlock, Dai Vernon, U.F. Grant, Eddie Clever and even T. A. Waters, and of course a good amount by Don Tanner and Jack Dean themselves.

You will receive issues 1 (October 1962) - 33 (September 1965) and the incomplete issue number 34. Includes a foreword by Paul Alberstat.

No. 1

• Central Time / North Bigbee
• Impromptu Clip Board / U. F. Grant
• Mindevelopmental / Howard A. Adams
• Mental Memos / Don Tanner

No. 2

• ESP Elimination / Joe White
• Long Wave Reception / T. A. Waters
• Shine / Jack Ketch
• Mental Memos / Don Tanner

No. 3

• Bold / Julies...

4. The Team
4. Editor's comments
4. Contents
6. In The Phonebox with Kendo Nagasaki
6. Facebook News
8. Kay Dyson - Miss Magic, Just The trick! - interview
12. Reader's Letters
14. Pet Hates - Steve Cook
18. Performance Character - Paul McCrory
21. Reflections - The 6 Best Masterclass Tricks
    • 4 Coin Production - Damian Surr - Issue 39
    • The Godmother OF all Book Tests - Dan Garrett - Issue 67
    • The Aaaah Game - Gary Dunn - Issue 48
    • Ring On, Ring Off - Alexander Allen - Issue 26
    • Easy Memorized Deck - Shawn Farquhar - Issue 73 ...

4. The Team
4. Editor's comments
4. Contents
6. In The Phonebox with Laetitia Casta
6. Facebook News
8. Ben Earl - The Man With A Vision - cover article/interview
16. Real Magic Exists - An Extract From XYA - Chris Dugdale
17. Facebook News
20. Buyer's Remorse - How To Avoid Making Bad Magic Purchases - Mark Leveridge
22. Reader's Letters
23. The Big Six! - Greame Shaw
25. The Masterclass classic
    25. Colossal Card memory - Sean Taylor
    26. Uniquely Surrounded - Dave Loosley
28. The Evolution of Dave - Jay Fortune & Graham Hey
30. Amir Lustig - The Imitation Game - interview ...

Issues run from March 1948 thru February 1951 and include an index. Numbers 51 to 86.

1. The Bat - Numbers 51 to 86
2. Index - Numbers 51 to 86

361. The Bat - Number Fifty-One - March 1948 - 8 pages
361. Darn Clever These Chinese! - Frank M. Chapman
362. Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
362. Gag Bag
362. Reverse Magic - Johnnie Murray
363. Psychic Slate Mystery - Frank M. Chapman
364. Puzzle Corner
364. What This Country Needs - James Kolocotronis
365. Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
     • The "Nine" Coincidence
     • The Prophetic Pair
365. The Key Mysterious
366. Keeping TAB
     • Maurice F. Raymond obituary
     • Open Sesame...

The Bat was the house organ for Magic Limited published by Lloyd Jones that ran from No. 1, Feb. 1943 until No. 86, Feb. 1951 for a total of 86 issues. (This PDF includes numbers 1 to 50. See the second volume for the remaining issues.) It is filled with close-up and stage effects of every kind, and brings you magic by top names like Charlie Miller, Dr. Jaks, Bert Allerton, Charles Jordan, Frank Chapman, T. Page Wright, and many more prominent pros of the era. It was also for a time the Official Organ of the Magic Dealers Association.

Issues run from February 1943 thru February 1948 and include an index. Published irregularly, then monthly starting with Number 13.

1. The Bat...

• A Different Kind Of Penetration
• Routines For Clippo
• Matchless Magic
• An Alka Seltzer GAG
• A Pick Pocket Gag
• Ideas For Wiztax
• Cigarettes - Cigars - Pipe
• A New Deal In Poker
• Douglas Kelly's Telephone Trick
• A Suggestion For A New "Levitator"
• A Bit Of Patter
• New Routine For The Quarter In The Beer Mug
• Making The Most Of The Newspaper Tearing Trick
• The Health Magician
• Black Jack Magic
• The Card In The Mirror

4. The Team
4. Editor's comments
4. Contents
6. In The Phonebox with Anais Demoustier
8. Michael Murray - Mental As Anything - cover article/interview by Graham Hey
14. The Amazing Johnathan - Part Two - article/interview
17. The Grumpy Old Magician Does Lockdown - Recorded by Mark Leveridge
18. magic By Numb3rs - Mark Leveridge
20. Reader's Letters
23. Masterclass
    23. 2 Poker chip Transpo - Gregg Webb
    24. The Discrepancy city Prediction - John Bannon
23. Either ... Or? - with Sean Carpenter
25. News
27. It's Competition Time!! - to win the John Bannon Move Zero 4DVD Boxset
29. Shop Talk...

• The Card In The Sandwich
• Misdirection Card Change
• Card And Whiskbroom
• Everready Pencil Trick
• The Coca Cola Bottle And Nipple Effect
• Card Control
• The Spirit Bar
• The Vanishing Cane For Close Up
• A Hanging Episode
• Magician's Lucky Card
• Deuces And Trays
• Manipulative Dollar
• Reverse Card Trick
• Ireland's "Live Bait" Card Fishing Trick Manuscript
• Color Change With A Laugh
• A Diachylon Trick