Magazines & Journals in Magic & Conjuring: page 32

In 1906 Houdini released his own magic publication the Conjurers' Monthly Magazine. It was short-lived and in large part an organ for Houdini to voice his personal opinions and grievances. Nevertheless, several historically important and interesting articles can be found in this magazine.

815 pages

The Gen magazine was published by Harry Stanley just after the war. The first issue came out in December 1945. The magazine was published for 26 years with 303 issues covering a total of 8,685 pages. Lewis Ganson, one of the greatest British magical writers ever, was the editor until the magazine changed hands in 1971. It continued under the editorship of Val Andrews for a further two issues as the New Gen.

Virtually every known name in the world of post-war magic made a contribution to the Gen or was featured in its columns. Ken Brooke, for example, contributed 27 items and even the final issue, under...

Some topics are

• Going Mental
• Comedy Card Production
• Forcing a Card
• Ghost Writing
• A Rib Tickler
• The Evacuee Doll

• Volume 1, Numbers 1-2-3, undated [reprint, Number 1 originally printed in December, 1945], 8 unnumbered pages
• Going Mental
• Comedy Card Production
• Ideas - Tips - Gags and What Have You!
• Forcing a Card
• Interruption

• Volume 1, Number 4, undated, 8 unnumbered pages
• editor's letter
• On the Spot - Theodore Annemann
• Ghost Writing
• A Good Gag
• A Nice Bit of "Business"
• The Gen Awards £10 - contest announcement
• "Interruption Gag"

• Volume 1, Number 5, undated, 8 unnumbered pages
• editor's letter
• On...

Some topics are

• The Last Card - a routine for children
• Stretching a Rope
• "Flip" Card Discovery
• Anything for a Laugh
• Wax and Thread
• Snippo
• A Flash Slate Tip

1. Volume 2, Number 1, December, 1946, 16 numbered pages
2. Let's Have a Chat - editor's letter
4. The Art of Entertaining Children, and a novel Opening Item - Eric P. Wilson
6. From "Tops," November, 1946. It's Happened to You - Wilton S. Clements [how to work with an M.C.]
7. Reproduction of a Note - Norman Rashleigh
11. Watch for a Rabbit - Douglas Francis

17. Volume 2, Number 2, January, 1947, 16 numbered pages
18. Let's Have a Chat - editor's letter ...

Some topics are

• Accent on Manipulation
• Loading a Cigarette
• Furst's Comedy Spelling Trick
• The Jolly Miller
• Paralytic Vision
• "Hickory, Dickory, Dock"

1. Volume 3, Number 1, December, 1947, 28 numbered pages
2. Let's Have a Chat - editor's letter
3. Accent on Manipulation - column
4. Loading a Cigarette - For the Card in Cigarette Trick - Cecil Keech
5. Furst's Comedy Spelling Trick - Arnold Furst (U.S.A.)
7. Cartoon Corner - column by Ted Elliott
9. A Note on Feathered Darts
11. You Need Glasses! - R. F. Price
13. The Jolly Miller - L. A. Belcher
17. Attaboy Again!
18. letter from Eric Williams ...

On the covers are

• Edward Pearce
• Devano
• John Booth
• Fred & Beatrice Mills
• Billy McComb & June Cochrane

337. Volume 4, Number 1, December, 1948, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Edward Pearce
339. Front Page Personality - Edward Pearce
339. map to Unique Magic
341. Jam Jars to You! - George Sylvestre
343. Sheer Silk - Douglas Francis
345. Open and Shut Case - Len Belcher
349. Soft Drinks - Harry Stanley
351. Flash Silk Routine - Billy McComb
353. Children's Patter for the Flash Silk Production - June Cochrane
355. Going Mental - Harry Stanley
355. "Spelling Lesson" Routine - Magico
360. Novelty Stage Opening - Bays ...

On the covers are

• The Johnstones
• Edward W. Dart
• J. K. Bays
• Maurice Fogel
• Lewis Ganson and Jo
• Sydney de Hempsey
• Jack Salvin
• Val and Al Sharpe
• Col Ling Soo
• Len Belcher
• Hubert Lambert
• G. C. Alyn Jones

1. Volume 5, Number 1, May, 1949, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: The Johnstones
7. Another Step Forward ... - editor's letter
8. Front Page Personality - The Johnstones [George]
9. Routined Manipulation - series by Lewis Ganson
   • Section One: Cigarettes
     • In the beginning ...
     • Lighted Cigarettes
       • Requirements and Preparation
       • Manipulations ...

On the covers are

• Ken de Courcy
• Jimmie Bates
• Willane
• Henk Vermeyden
• His Honour Judge Wethered O.B.E.
• Charles Tabor
• Chan Canasta
• Harry Venson
• Joe Stuthard and Kay
• Al Koran
• George Grimmond
• George Blake

1. Volume 6, Number 1, May, 1950, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Ken de Courcy
3. Front Page Personalities - Ken de Courcy
4. Change - and Change Again - Ken de Courcy
7. A Rough Idea - Len Belcher
8. Latex Limericks - Wm. J. Bate
9. Making Do! - Michael F. Rogers
9. Supersonic Brainwave - Lewis Ganson
10. Billy McComb's "Irish Stew" - Chitter-Chatter-Patter
11. Convincing Chatter...

On the covers are

• Ted Elliott
• George Braund
• Carl Rosini
• Jimmy Rogers
• Dr. Jaks
• John Forrest
• Tornedo
• Louis Tannen
• Hen Fetsch
• Gerrie Larsen
• Kinson
• Arthur Dowler

1. Volume 7, Number 1, May, 1951, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Ted Elliott
3. Front Page Personalities - Ted Elliott
4. Suspension - Harry Stanley
5. The Hypogastric Hen or "An Egg a Day Keeps the Axe Away!" - Ken de Courcy
6. A Novel Thimble-Holder
7. Tricolour - Len Belcher
9. The Second Seer - Jack Shepherd
10. Pre-cognition - Rupert Gilbert
12. If I Were Presenting - series by George Blake
14. A Sure Bet ... Card in Wallet...

On the covers are

• Milbourne Christopher
• Harold Taylor
• John Scarne
• Robert Nelson
• William Stickland
• Lewis Ganson
• Jack Kodell
• Al Koran
• Jerry Bergmann
• Ken Brooke
• Geoffrey Buckingham
• Richard Du Bois

1. Volume 8, Number 1, May, 1952, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Milbourne Christopher
3. Editorial
4. More Routined Manipulation - series by Lewis Ganson
   • 1. - Trio
     • Cards to Bouquet
     • Palming a Short Lighted Cigarette
     • Adding a Card to the Pack
7. Tom Seller's Tit-Bits - series
   • The Discs of Diablo
8. Originally Yours - series by Len...

On the covers are

• Gerald Kosky
• Harry Clarke
• Robert Orben
• Fred Kaps
• David Berglas
• Ronald Haines
• David Nixon
• Jimmy Lake
• Les Aston
• Bobo
• Michael Bailey
• Hen Fetsch

1. Volume 9, Number 1, May, 1953, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Gerald Kosky
4. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
5. More Routined Manipulation - series by Lewis Ganson
   • Charlie Edward's "Dissolving Knots" - Part 1
10. Tom Seller's Tit-Bits - series
    • An Easy False Shuffle
    • A Card Penetrates a Handkerchief
11. More Mystic Signs - Hedley Wilcox
12. Cards in Reverse - Bill Simon (New York)
13. Front...

On the covers are

• Trevor Little
• Ali Bongo
• Frank Baumforth
• Francis White
• Geoffrey Robinson
• "Senator" Crandall
• Harold G. Beaumont
• Ram Das and Kim
• Peter Warlock
• Alex Elmsley
• Faucett W. Ross
• Henk Vermeyden

1. Volume 10, Number 1, May, 1954, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Trevor Little
3. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
5. Les Ashton's Magical Alphabet - series
   • No. 7 - Ghost Tubes, Guns and Gadgets
6. Bongo's Bargain Basement - series by Ali Bongo
   • Have a Heart!
   • Ties Up Again
   • There's a Long, Long Chain Awinding ...
   • Faked Feathers
8. A Pair...

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

1. Volume 11, Number 1, May, 1955, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Vernon on Stage
3. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
5. Correct Change - Charles Miller
7. My Favourite Living and Dead Test - Dr. Raymond L. Beebe
9. Red and Blue - Bob Haskell
11. The Animated Mouse - Magini
14. Front Page Personality - Vernon on Stage - Francis Ireland
15. A Magician Explains - series by Lewis Ganson

On the covers are

• Lewis Ganson
• Arnold Furst
• The Stuthard's
• Syd Bergson
• Lewis Ganson, The Stanleys, Ken Brooke, Jo Ganson, Mystic Craig
• Charles A. Schoke
• Dai Vernon
• Richard Merry
• Niberco Brothers
• Tom Sellers
• Alan Alan
• J. G. Thompson Junior

1. Volume 12, Number 1, May, 1956, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Lewis Ganson
3. Front Page Personality - Lewis Ganson
4. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
5. My Comedy Rope Routine - Arthur Leo
6. Jimmy Rogers' Ring Box - Tom Sellers
7. Len Belcher Presents - series
   • Atomic Gun
   • Space Gun
8. A Magician Explains - series...

On the covers are

• Ron Urban
• Ed Marlo
• Frederica
• June Merlin
• Michael and Valerie Bailey
• ?
• Levante
• Donald G. Crombie
• Nelson Downs
• Remo Inzani
• Clifford Davis
• John Young

1. Volume 13, Number 1, May, 1957, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Ron Urban
3. Front Page Personality - Ron Urban
4. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
5. The Magic of Coins - series by Charles Kingston (California, USA)
   • One - Such Flimsy Material
7. More Finishing Touches - Nic Niberco (Hollnad)
   • Simplified Hofzinser Top Change - and a Trick
   • The Changing Card
10. A Trio from Tom Sellers ...

The Gen, Volume 14, Lewis Ganson, editor - new editor

On the covers are

• Will Ayling
• Dai Vernon
• Slydini
• Harry Blackstone
• Phoa Yan Tiong
• Harold G. Beaumont
• Milton Woodward and Millicent Cooper
• Rink
• Maurice Rooklyn
• Harry Hickson
• Dany Ray
• John Ramsay

1. Volume 14, Number 1, May, 1958, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Will Ayling
3. Front Page Personality - Will Ayling
4. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
5. A new Card Fan - Dudley Fossum (Wisconsin, USA)
6. Lewis Ganson Explains - series
   • Juggling Tumbler - Will Ayling
9. Bento's Bat - Bento (Holland) ...

The Gen, Volume 15, Lewis Ganson, editor

On the covers are

• Don Lawton
• Bob Lawrence
• Wilfred Tyler
• Murray
• Jac Olten
• John Giordmaine
• Ernest Wethered
• Archie Tear
• Frank Brooker
• Chan Canasta
• Hubert Lambert
• Sam Hughes

1. Volume 15, Number 1, May, 1959, 34 numbered pages - Gala Issue cover picture: Don Lawton
2. Front Page Personality - Don Lawton
7. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
8. Magic for the Pocket
   • Pocket Size Indian Rope - Aenigma (Holland)
11. Mental and Spirit Magic
    • Behind My Blackboard - Dr. Stanley Jaks (USA)
14. New Lamps for Old...

On the covers are

• Al Koran
• Allan Jamieson
• Lloyd E. Jones
• Gerald Kosky
• Peter Pit
• Douglas Francis
• Lewis Ganson
• Mavis Murrell
• Don Alan
• Iris and Lester Sharpe
• Laurence Glen
• The Tornedo's

1. Volume 16, Number 1, May, 1960, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Al Koran
3. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
4. Card Magic
   • Rainbow Pips - Bernard Shaw
6. Card Seance - John Howie
8. New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
   • The Sailor's Trick
11. Lewis Ganson Explains - series
    • Penetration of a Cigarette
13. Magic with Apparatus
    • Portfolio...

On the covers are

• Hugh Wylie
• Fred Lowe
• Docteur J. Dhotel
• Dorothy and Al Roberts
• Hans Anderson and Jeanette
• George L. Boston
• Bill Simon
• Jimmy Findlay
• Johnny Hart
• Glenn G. Gravatt
• Ken Brooke
• Sitta

1. Volume 17, Number 1, May, 1961, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Hugh Wylie
3. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
4. Card Magic
   • Dice Scripto - Frederica
6. Take It Slowly - Robert Hamilton
7. Silk Magic
   • A Silken Interlude - Hugh Wylie
11. Improvement for the "Knife and Square Papers" - Jean Charles (France)
12. New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland ...

On the covers are

• Albert Verity
• John Ramsay
• Tom Morley
• Chris Woodward
• Ralph Chart
• Eddie Taytelbaum
• Evelyn Rose
• Leslie May
• Kovari
• Andrew Dalziel
• Ludow
• David Hemingway

1. Volume 18, Number 1, May, 1962, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Albert Verity
3. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
4. New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
   • Double Knot Release
5. The Homing Matches - Rink
7. Coins Across - Rink
8. Corner Count - Tom Sellers
10. Mental and Spirit Magic
    • Colour Television - John Bragoli
12. A Sel-Dem Prediction - Jesse Demaline
13. Lewis Ganson Explains...

On the covers are

• Val Andrews
• Ron MacMillan
• Dr. Raymond L. Beebe
• Frank Garcia
• Sydney Lawrence
• Eddie Dexter
• Jack Gillespie
• De Vega
• J. A. M. Howie
• Roger Klause
• John Booth
• Dino

1. Volume 19, Number 1, May, 1963, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Val Andrews
3. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
4. Magic with Apparatus
   • Presentation of Cylindro - George Durant
7. Magic for the Pocket
   • I.O.U. - An Original Pocket Trick - Edward Victor
9. Mental and Spirit Magic
   • Murray on Mentalism
10. Psychojazzology - John Bragoli
12. Just a Few Words and Bits and Pieces...

On the covers are

• Roy Baker
• Esme Levante
• Al Flosso
• Jay Ose
• The Magic Castle
• Roger Crosthwaite
• Jack Mayes
• Oliver Mackenzie
• Horace Bennett
• Bob Olson
• Valerie and Robert Swadling
• Keith Lawrence

1. Volume 20, Number 1, May, 1964, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Roy Baker
3. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
4. Mainly Manipulative
   • Tissue Vanish - Robert Hamilton
5. Magic with Apparatus
   • Out of the Rut - or The Devil of a Box - Norman Rhodes
9. Money Magic
   • Hypno-Tisn't - Horace Bennett
12. Magic for Youngsters
    • Turkish Delight...

On the covers are

• Arnold De Seiver
• Harold Taylor
• Billy Day
• George Hammerton
• Dick Scott (Yimka)
• Anverdi
• Ross Bertram
• Drew Masters
• Bayard Grimshaw and Harry Stanley
• Oscar Paulson
• Finn Jon (Finn Hauger)
• Hugh Miller

1. Volume 21, Number 1, May, 1965, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Arnold de Seiver
3. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
4. Close Up Magic
   • Slydini and Delmin's Popper - Horace Bennett
     4. Variations on the [Syldini] "Flyaway Coin" Routine
     7. Delmini's Popper
8. New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
   • One-Two-None ...

On the covers are

• Al Spackman, Al Brema
• John Gilliland
• Dennis Patten
• Tony Shiels
• Alan Kennaugh
• Maurice Rooklyn
• Eddie Joseph
• Jim Cook - Campbell McRae
• John Alborough
• Graham Wilson and Hazel
• Ricky Lester
• Max Murdoch - Sanara

1. Volume 22, Number 1, May, 1966, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Al Spackamn
3. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
4. Silken Bombshell - Extra - A. Del Roy
5. Mental and Spirit Magic
   • Noted Number - Al Spackman
7. Magic for Youngsters
   • Attention - Children's Entertainers! - Part One - Cyro
     • A. My Grandma went...