Magazines & Journals in Magic & Conjuring: page 7

The Sphinx Index is a 540 page PDF, indexing all 52 volumes of The Sphinx magazine. Three people worked for hundreds of hours to collect and categorize this information. It has more than 14,000 entries. The index covers all tricks, effects and articles, but does not include assembly reports and other short trip reports or news items. An interesting category is Portraits & Photos where all photos are indexed by the name of the person shown in the photo. This makes it easy to find image information about hundreds of magicians. The other index categories are: Articles - Biographical, Articles - Historical, Articles...

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From the introduction:

This periodical was released by Ted Annemann. The plan was to publish some 350 original tricks by Charles T. Jordan that Jordan had released earlier either as single tricks or in booklets. Here is Annemann in his own words:

CONTENTS:

• GETTING YOUR OWN BACK (Paul Brignall): A clever all backs routine with a surprise finish.
• JUMPING JOKERS (Al Smith): A Joker Assembly with a backfire ending.
• INTO THE THIRD DIMENSION (Stephen Tucker): A sponge ball is split into two halves. The halves jump from one hand to another and finally fuse back into one complete ball.
• UNBEATABLE (David Britland): A card is selected, say the Two of Hearts, and lost in the deck. Two Jokers are removed from the deck and placed aside. The deck is spread and the spectator FREELY selects any card, which is then placed between the Jokers. The card turns out to be the...

CONTENTS:

• FIRST TIME EVER (Stephen Tucker): Five black cards and one red card are shown. The red card is placed on the table but reappears in the packet. This happens several times. In the end, all of the cards are shown to be black.
• CYCLE (Paul Spencer): An off-beat rising card, card to card case effect.
• ACE MBLEY (David Britland): A beautiful ace assembly routine.
• GOLDMINE (Roger Curzon): Three coins are produced from thin air.
• DISCOVER (Bill Worsley): Bill's excellent Biddle trick variation.
• PRI-MAGE (Derek Robbins): A selection and its mate transpose.
• ANATOMY (Stephen Tucker and Paul Brignal): An easy to make gaffed deck...

CONTENTS:

• ONE GOOD TURN (Al Koran) - A card is selected and replaced. A spectator, while the deck is behind his back, takes one card from the middle and reverses it. It is the selected card.
• ZOMBIE CARD RISE (Eddie Ward) - A very clever floating card under handkerchief. No gimmicks. Everything can be examined.
• FOLLOW MY LEADER (Ed Marlo) - A very easy to do Follow The Leader routine using ten red and ten black cards.
• KNOT ON THE CORNER (Tom Sellers) - A knot appears on the corner of a handkerchief.
• THE SLIP CUT EFFECT (Ed Marlo) - A selected card keeps appearing face up on top of the face down deck. You'll...

CONTENTS:

• TWO TIMES TEN CARD TRICK (Simon Lovell) - A super fair packet effect where a spectator's freely selected card is found in an impossible manner.
• WHAT'S IN A NAME (Arun Bonerjee) - A freeely selected card is discovered using the letters of a spectator's name.
• YCLIPT (Max Maven) - A paperclip disappears and reappears on a freely selected card.
• SIGNED TRANSPO IN TRIPLICATE (Justin Higham) - An excellent variaiton of Bro. John Hamman's "Signed Transverse Triplet". Two cards (can be signed) change places among four Kings... three times.
• A SUIT IN COURT (Solyl Kundu) - A B'Wave type effect using normal cards. ...

[Note that this volume has actually only 9 effects.]

CONTENTS:

• FINGERED 2 (Simon Lovell): A unique revelation of a selected card with a transposition.
• IT'S ME! (Solyl Kundu): Three cards show a picture of a magic wand. All three cards change into mirrors. Finally, you have a card with a mirror, a card with a wand and the third card with your picture (or your business card)
• COIN IN BALLOON (Angelo Carbone): A coin is thrown towards a balloon and magically appears inside the balloon that can be examined.
• HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF? (Melvin LeHair): An easy "Find The Lady" routine with a Queen and four Aces.
• CHEEKY RING (Ali Cardabra): A nice routine in three phases...

CONTENTS:

• TWINK PLUS (Max Maven): Two cards selected by you and two selected by a spectator match.
• OLDFINGER (Arthur Setterington): A box contains a finger which is laid on a face-down card. A lady is invited to remove the card. Suddenly the finger comes alive and jump into a vertical position. The card is a duplicate of a previously selection.
• SECONDS OUT (Al Smith): Simply stated, the effect is that of a quadruple coincidence.
• KRIX (Al Smith): A version of the Twisting The Aces trick, using the A-2-3-4 of one suit with a surprise ending.
• EVEN BREAK (Walt Lees): You show two cards and request a spectator to...

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.

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