Magazines & Journals in Magic & Conjuring: page 39

The theme of this second issue is "The Sandwich Effect."

• Featuring all new sandwich effects
  • Slice one
  • Slice two
  • Slice three
  • Slice four
  • Maker
  • Inbetweener
  • Nil Base
  • Grab
  • Gauntlett
  • Uprising
  • Kick
  • Bonus: The Cameo Trilogy
  • Myles Nakouzi: Twenty3
  • Dee Christopher: 2sec
• Thoughts...
• Magic as art
• The R3man challenge...Re-Style
• Journal entries
  • A Time for Change
  • Truth
  • Hunger Day 11

1st edition 2009; 42 pages.

The magazine started in October 1979 and the final issue was published in August 1983. When Derek Lever launched Magic Mag he felt that the entire magic scene had become stagnant and uninteresting and once the magazine was launched he was not afraid of having a dig at anyone and everyone. It was an outspoken magazine with some top professional contributors such as: Simon Lovell, Trevor Lewis, David Howarth, Tommy Copper, Terry Seabrooke and Billy McComb. It contains hundreds of professional effects and routines, articles, hints and tips for everyone with an interest in becoming a working professional.

Included is an index (not hyperlinked...

Derek Lever's Magic Mag, Volume 1
Published by Derek Lever, Peter C. Woolley & Taurus Magic, Manchester & Bury, Lancaster, England
Volume 1 consists of 6 issues, 260 pages total

Volume 1, Number 1, October/November 1979, 36 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

1. Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
   • Are Magic Societies Out of Date?
2. drawing collage of Chung Ling Soo
3. Blast from the Past - Chung Ling Soo - personality
4. Kid's Entertainers Only - news and advice
5. On the Road with Michael Allport - series
   • Zurich, Switzerland
6. Well I'll Be Hanged - a new...

Derek Lever's Magic Mag, Volume 2
Published by Derek Lever, Peter C. Woolley & Taurus Magic, Manchester & Bury, Lancaster, England
Volume 2 consists of 6 issues, 264 pages total

Volume 2, Number 1, October/November 1980, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

1. Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
   • Lever Agrees with Edwin ???????
2. Stage Magic - illusion plans
   • The Boy to Rabbit Illusion
7. Entertaining the Under Fives - Myster Yaffe
   • Part Three - Your Material and You
   • It Need Not be Magi
   • Ya Gotta Have Love
   • Dealer's Items
12. List of readers...

Derek Lever's Magic Mag, Volume 3
Published by Derek Lever, Peter C. Woolley & Taurus Magic, Manchester & Bury, Lancaster, England
Volume 3 consists of 6 issues, 264 pages total

Volume 3, Number 1, October/November 1981, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

1. Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
2. Magical Inventor of the Year Competition
   • The Impromptu Chop Cup - Eoin Taylor
   • Phenominal Coincidence - E. W. Thomas
   • Routine for the Cups and Balls Plus Chop Cup Set - Paul Anthony
5. another (better) photo of Edwin Hooper
5. List of readers who passed the examination...

Derek Lever's Magic Mag, Volume 4
Published by Derek Lever, Peter C. Woolley & Taurus Magic, Manchester & Bury, Lancaster, England
Volume 4 consists of 6 issues, 266 pages total

Volume 4, Number 1, October/November 1982, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

1. Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
   • Praise from Abra
   • Magic Mag Magician of the Year
2. Comedy Corner - jokes, comedy routines, etc. - Derek Lever
3. Free Trick, complete with the Apparatus, from Magic Mag
   • A Different Card Trick - Maurice Deighton
4. cartoon
5. Free Advertising Section
6. Happiness...

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...

Edward Bagshawe was a very creative and innovative English magician. The Magical Monthly ran from October 1923 until September 1926 (Volume 3, No. 13), more than 600 pages strong. From the foreword to the new magazine:

Magic was a monthly magazine produced and edited by Ellis Stanyon. It was first published in October 1900 and ran for 177 issues with a break during the 1914 - 18 war and the final issue was published in June 1920.

Ellis Stanyon was a noted magic dealer, author and publisher and in the first issue of Magic he set out his intention which was to 'popularize the Art of Sleight of Hand'. Stanyon's original lessons in magic were published in each issue and formed a significant course of magical instruction. Magic featured close-up effects, routines, stage and parlour magic including some of the...

October 1900 - September 1901

104 pages

1. Magic - Volume I, Number 1 - October 1900 - 8 pages
1. Modern Magicians - biography/review - "Selbit"
2. Introduction
2. To Our Readers
3. Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
   • Practical Tips on Palming
4. Biography of Prof. Anderson (The Original "Wizard of the North")
5. Hand Shadows - The Editor
5. Items of Interest
6. The Editor's Letter-Box
6. Advertisements & Personal Cards

9. Magic - Volume I, Number 2 - November 1900 - 8 pages
9. Modern Magicians - biography/review - Mr. R. A. Roberts
10. Lightning Sketches - Ellis Stanyon
11. Lessons in Magic - Ellis...

October 1901 - September 1902

96 pages

1. Magic - Volume II, Number 1 - October 1901 - 8 pages
1. Modern Magicians - biography/review - Signor Blitz
2. Facsimile Reproduction of the Programme of Signor Blitz
2. Lessons in Magic
   • The Spinning Egg - Embodying a New Principle
     • Catching Coin on Rim of Hat
3. Confessions of a Conjurer - Frank W. Thomas
4. Explanatory Programmes
   • Horace Goldin - Palace Theatre, July 26, 1901 (continued)
     • Second Part of Programme - Illusions
     • A Cage Illusion
5. A Bibliography of Conjuring - Compiled with Notes - Ellis...

October 1902 - September 1903

104 pages

1. Magic - Volume III, Number 1 - October 1902 - 8 pages
1. History of Lightning Calculations (continued)
2. Magic - announcements and offers
2. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
   • Genuine Lightning Calculations
3. A New Card Change - W. J. Atkinson
4. Explanatory Programmes
   • Handkerchief Manipulation
4. American Notes - Henry Ridgley Evans
4. South African Notes - T. Hayes
5. A Bibliography of Conjuring - Compiled with Notes - Ellis Stanyon
6. Hand Shadows
6. Items of Interest
7. Advertisements & Personal Cards

9. Magic - Volume III, Number...

October 1903 - September 1904

116 pages

1. Magic - Volume IV, Number 1 - October 1903 - 16 pages
1. Modern Magicians - biography/review - W. D. Le Roy (Boston)
2. Facsimile from Mr. Stanyon's Portfolio
2. Magic - announcements and offers
2. Editorial
3. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
   • Illusion
   • Metempsychosis Double-Extraordinary
   • The Wonderful Floating Card, in Combination with an Anti-Spiritualistic Trick
5. Soap Bubble Tricks
5. Paper Tearing - Ellis Stanyon (continued)
   • The Great Triple Tearing Feat
   • Torn Design Changed to Confetti
6. Thimble Rigging - by One of...

October 1904 - September 1905

100 pages

1. Magic - Volume V, Number 1 - October 1904 - 8 pages
1. Fire and Chemical Magic - Ellis Stanyon
   • The Will-o'-the-Wisp
   • Chameleon Pictures
   • Marvellous Spirit Pictures
   • The Blushing Picture
   • Metal Trees
   • Chemical Vegetation
   • Fulminating Powder
   • Fire Paint, to make
   • The Fire Scroll
2. Editorial
3. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
   • Devil's Sticks or Fakir's Wands
   • Magical Production of Scents
   • The Self-Rotating Shell - Satya Ranjan Roy
   • The Jumping Sixpence
   • Magical Illumination
5. Some Simple Tricks ...

October 1905 - September 1906

96 pages

1. Magic - Volume VI, Number 1 - October 1905 - 8 pages
1. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
   • A Flag-Dying Trick
   • New Paper Cylinder Flag, Flowers and Ribbon Trick
   • A New Floating Ball
3. Advertisements
3. Agents for "Magic"
3. Egg and Handkerchief Combination - Edw. C. Masser, M.D.
4. Editorial
4. The International Society of Conjurers
4. The "Magic" Portrait Collection
5. Explanatory Programmes
   • Conjuring, Illusions, &c. - continued
     • The Magic Kettle
     • The Burmese Gong
7. Advertisements & Personal Cards

9. Magic...

October 1906 - September 1907

96 pages

1. Magic - Volume VII, Number 1 - October 1906 - 8 pages
1. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
   • Tub Illusion, "Diogenes" (second Method)
   • The Wolligog-Galliwog Ball
   • To Pass a Match Through the Hand
4. Magic - announcements and offers
4. The International Society of Conjurers
4. A New Handkerchief Combination - Percy Charlton
5. An Original Conception with Eggs and Flags - Herbert De Caston
5. Queries - questions from readers
5. Advertisements & Personal Cards

9. Magic - Volume VII, Number 2 - November 1906 - 8 pages
9. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon ...

October 1907 - September 1908

96 pages

1. Magic - Volume VIII, Number 1 - October 1907 - 8 pages
1. Second Sight and Silent Thought Transmission - Ellis Stanyon - continued
2. Have You an Idea
2. Just Published - advertisement
3. Facsimile selected from Mr. Margery's portfolio - re: Theatre-Royal Adelphi
3. Magic - announcements and offers
3. The International Society of Conjurers
4. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
   • Production of Eight Solid Billiard Balls; Four at Finger Tips of each Hand; and Grand Vanish
5. Explanatory Programmes
   • Servais Le Roy, Tivoli, Barrow
     • Soup...

October 1908 - September 1909

96 pages

1. Magic - Volume IX, Number 1 - October 1908 - 8 pages
1. The Magical Master - Magical Sketch - St. George's Hall - Ellis Stanyon
   • Indian Rope Trick
     • Neckties Change Places, &c.
     • Sleights with Cards
     • Tricks with Ordinary Objects
     • Handkerchief Appears in Bottle
     • Changing Fruit
     • Handkerchief Changes Colour at the Finger Tips
     • Apple Changes to an Egg
     • Handkerchief Changes to an Apple
     • Handkerchief Changes Colour in the Bottle
     • Egg Changes to Ball of Wool
     • Egg Caught in Wine Glass
     • Magic Embroidery ...

October 1909 - September 1910

96 pages

1. Magic - Volume X, Number 1 - October 1909 - 8 pages
1. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
   • Illusion "Beau Brocade"
   • The "Visible" Card Frame
3. Advertisement
3. Magic - announcements and offers
3. Editorial
4. Explanatory Programmes
   • Clempert, Siberian Jail Breaker, Tivoli, Barrow-in-Furness, June '09
     • Escape from Siberian Torture Jacket
     • Double Milk Can Escape
4. Queries - questions from readers
5. Replies to Queries
5. The International Society of Conjurers
5. Advertisements & Personal Cards

9. Magic - Volume...

October 1910 - September 1911

96 pages

1. Magic - Volume XI, Number 1 - October 1910 - 8 pages
1. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
   • Another "All Change" Pack
   • "Sets 'em all Guessing" Card Trick
   • A Chosen and Marked Card Discovers Two other Chosen Cards
2. Advertisement
3. A New Combination Card Trick - George B. Bryce
3. Magic - announcements and offers
4. Explanatory Programmes
   • Merlin, Card Manipulator, Kilburn Empire, September, 1910
     • Production of Four Chosen Cards
     • Four Other Methods of Producing Chosen Cards
     • Precipitation of Five Cards

October 1911 - September 1912

96 pages

1. Magic - Volume XII, Number 1 - October 1911 - 8 pages
1. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
   • The Transposed Cards
2. Correspondence - G. Bower Bryce
3. Advertisements
3. Correspondence
3. Magic - announcements and offers
3. The International Society of Conjurers
4. A Dictionary of Magical Effects - with some explanations in the vernacular - Ellis Stanyon - continued
6. Advertisement
6. Queries - questions from readers
6. Replies to Queries
7. Advertisements & Personal Cards

9. Magic - Volume XII, Number 2 - November 1911 - 8 pages
9. C. E. Jenkins...

October 1912 - September 1913

108 pages

1. Magic - Volume XIII, Number 1 - October 1912 - 8 pages
1. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
   • The Phantom Lemons
   • Handkerchief Appears in, Vanishes from, and Returns to Glass Tumbler
   • Pile of Three Glass Tumblers with Red, White and Blue Handkerchiefs
2. Advertisement
3. The International Society of Conjurers
3. Prepaid Advertisements - Wanted & For Sale
3. Magic - announcements and offers
3. "Magic" - Features in Volume XII
4. A Dictionary of Magical Effects - with some explanations in the vernacular - Ellis Stanyon - continued
6. Advertisements...

October 1913 - September 1919

108 pages

1. Magic - Volume XIV, Number 1 - October 1913 - 12 pages
1. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
   • Visible Water to Ink Change and Vice Versa
   • Ink and Tea Change Places
   • Wine or Water - Which?
2. The Sphinx, September, 1913 - review
2. The Magical World, October 1, 8, 15 & 22 - review
2. Senghenydd Colliery Disaster [Chung Ling Soo]
2. Scottish Circle of Amateur Magicians
2. Advertisement
3. "Magic" - Features in Volume XIII
3. Magic - announcements and offers
4. A Dictionary of Magical Effects - with some explanations in the vernacular - Ellis Stanyon - continued ...

October 1919 - June 1920 (9 issues)

72 pages

1. Magic - Volume XV, Number 1 - October 1919 - 8 pages
1. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
   • Visible Passage of Real Ink Through Hat and Handkerchief into Glass Tumbler
   • Visible Filtration of Real Ink (Second Method)
   • Brass Cannon Trick
   • C.L.S. Rising Cards
   • New Four Ace Trick on Corners of Handkerchief
3. "Magic" - Features in Volume XIII
3. Magic - announcements and offers
4. A Dictionary of Magical Effects - with some explanations in the vernacular - Ellis Stanyon - continued
5. Advertisement
6. A Card Monologue - In Four Acts...