Magazines & Journals in Magic & Conjuring: page 4

Dynamo is on the cover.

• Dynamo in conversation
• Michael Lyth's Mirror Trick
• Chris Wardle's Long-distance Card trick
• John Helvin's Dead Man's Hand
• J-Day at The Magic Circle
• Roy Walton's Ghostly Poker

December 2009; 32 pages.

Jack Delvin is on the cover.

• Magic Circle President Jack Delvin talks to James Ward
• The International Magic Convention Reported
• Robert Bombassel's Son of a Gun
• Stephen Jones's Ace in the Hole
• Werner Miller's Angelina Knows

January 2010; 32 pages.

This compilation holds electronic facsimile versions of the popular comics Blackstone, Master Magician, Blackstone The Magician Detective and Pennzoil Presents Blackstone Master Magician. Follow Blackstone on his daring adventures to save lives and catch the bad guys, using his knowledge as magician.

This electronic edition has been prepared from originals of James Kleefeld's collection. James was instrumental in making this electronic edition possible. We would like to thank James for his collaboration and work.

Blackstone, Master Magician started in 1946 and ran for three issues. It...

This is volume 3 of The New Conjurors' Magazine.

• No 1:
  • SPEAKING OF PICTURES: William Holden Maxwell, Ruth Dore
  • A THANK YOU FROM CONJURORS' STAFF
  • RIDDLE IN RED AND YELLOW: A Story about Chung Ling Soo by FULTON OURSLER
  • GIVE ME A RING - Edward M. Massey
  • CUPKAKES IN HAT - Burton Marks
  • SWORD-SORCERY - "Hen" Fetsch
  • FIFTEEN CARD TRICK - Stanley Beck
  • TORTURE BOX - Jay Berggren
  • ALONG WITH BLACKSTONE - Walter B. Gibson
  • MAGICIAN - SOLDIERS WANTED - Julien J. Proskauer: Featuring Statements to Conjurors' Readers by PRESIDENT TRUMAN and GENERAL EISENHOWER
  • TERRY LYNN - ON MAGIC
  • IMPROVED...

This is volume 4 of The New Conjurors' Magazine.

• No 1:
  • SPEAKING OF PICTURES: George Johnstone, Betty Johnstone
  • YOU'VE GOT TO USE "DYNAMITE" - Bruce Reynolds
  • CIRCUS BANDS - Warren E. Simms
  • THE GIRL AND THE LADDER - Harry Blackstone
  • THE VACUUM IMPOSSIBILITY - George Johnstone
  • SLIK SLEIGHTS - Bill Tarr
  • TRICKS I LIKE - Bill Chaudet
  • IN THE BAG - R. N. Menge
  • OVER THE DEALER'S COUNTER
  • ON THE MAGIC BOOKSHELF
  • HUMOROUS PATTER - Burling Hull
  • BURNT AND RESTORED BILL - John Scarne
  • THE BOTTOM STEAL - Mike Tannen
  • THE 17TH ANNUAL MAGI-FEST
  • CHINESE FLAG VASE OF ALL NATIONS - Okito
  • GAS...

This is volume 5 of The New Conjurors' Magazine.

• No 1:
  • Speaking of Pictures: Richiardi, Chang
  • Abracadabra by Arthur Buckley
  • A Man Named Le Roy by George LaFollette
  • The Atomic Gun by Eddie Joseph
  • East Indian Rope Trick by Felix Korim
  • Liquid Mystery by Andrew Smythe
  • New Three Coin Trick by George L. Kier
  • Chicanery by Chaudet
  • GABBATHA by Walter B. Gibson
  • On The Magic Bookshelf by G. E. T. and E. W. D.
  • Light Up by Richard Gray
  • Journeys Into Aladdinland by Glen E. Towns
  • Blending by George Johnstone
  • In The Hat by Don Jacobs
  • Backwards by P. A. Dohm, Jr.
  • Prediction by Martin Gardner ...

Number 1 (April 1931)

• Editorial
• Downs Greets Blackstone
• Men Prominent in Magic Welcome the I. M. C.
• The International Magic Circle
• The First Convention
• Sensational Magic
  • Word from the Spirits
  • The Penetrating Silk
  • The Best Diminishing Ball
  • The Bewitched Cigarette
  • Dollar Divination Test
  • Clear Through / Edward Massey
  • How to Tell What a Man Thinks Before He Thinks It / Frank W. Thomas
• Something New in Magic
• Around the Magic Circle
• Magic Notes from Detroit
• Stage Effects
  • The Message from Mercury
  • The Girl and the Ladder
• Around the Ice-Box with "Dom"
• Effective Card Tricks ...

Number 1 (October 1931)

• Editorial
• Around the Magic Circle
• Sensational Magic
  • Bouquet to Fish Globe
  • The Chinese Rope
  • Large Coin Vanish
  • Divino
• Effective Card Tricks
  • Card Transposition
  • Improved Card Production / Dunninger
  • Car-Deck-O / Arnt
  • Improved Card Rising
• Stage Effects: The Tom Tom Illusion
• Around the Ice-Box with Dom
• Salo Ansbach
• Old Time Magicians No. 3 / A. F. Munroe
• Tricks and Travel / Robert G. Thrasher
• Magic for Pleasure or Profit
• Saginaw Meeting
• Color and Number
• The Odin Rings
• Poetic Patter

• Editorial
• Around the Magic Circle ...

Number 1 (April 1932)

• Editorial
• Around the Magic Circle
• Sensational Magic
  • Card Prediction / Dorner Scaramucci
  • Silk Production / Doc Nixon
  • Chemical Magic / Doc. Endlich
  • Silk-O-Drop / Clayton L. Jacobsen
• Amateur Contest: Robert Nelson
• Stage Effects
  • The Princess of Tepenac Illusion / Clayton L. Jacobsen
  • The Spooky Chair
  • Patriotic Finale / Ovette
• E. J. Moore
• Manipulative Magic
  • Vanishing Light Globe
  • Cigarette Vanish
  • Rub Away Coin
  • Perfection Coin Vanish
• The Nelson Cup
• Effective Card Tricks
  • Mathematical Card Mystery
  • Identical Thought
• Around the Ice-Box with...

Number 1 (October 1932)

• Editorial
• Why Is a Headliner? Harlan Tarbell
• A Talk to Card Enthusiasts / Eddie McGuire
• This 'n That / Mr. E
• Kansas City Notes / Dr. E. G. Ervin
• Manipulative Magic
  • The Lock Flap Jap Box / Glenn G. Gravatt
  • Monk Watson's Traveling Cigar Band
  • The Invisible Purse / Little Johnny Jones
• Sensational Magic
  • The Floating Wand / William Meyn
  • Balls Box and Cages
• U. F. Grant Says
• Nixonian News Shots
• Doings of The Society of Osiris / Ernest B. Marx

• Editorial
• Around the Ice-Box with Dom
• With the Dealers
• Sensational Magic ...

Number 1 (January 1934)

• Editorial
• Around the Magic Circle
• Stage Effects: The Mysterious Cocoanut Shell Fountain Illusion / Clayton Lowell Jacobsen
• Effective Card Tricks
  • Stand For Producing And Vanishing Cards / Signor Joseph Ovette
  • The Slide Discovery / Dr. Raoul Brochu
• European Section: A Rope And Ring Trick

• Editorial
• Around the Magic Circle
• Effective Card Tricks
  • Grant's Four Ace Trick / U. F. Grant
  • Reverse Reverse
• Stage Effects: The Target Of Doom Illusion / Clayton L. Jacobsen
• European Section: Affinity of Letters And Numbers / Will...

Seven Circles was the official publication of the International Magic Circle (IMC). Editor-in-chief was Walter B. Gibson. In his first editorial Gibson wrote:

From November 2006 through October 2007 Wesley James—one of the last of the under-ground legends of magic—wrote, edited and released 12 issues of an e-zine containing some of the most sophisticated close-up magic in the history of magic periodicals, all described in Wesley's inimitably detailed style.

Originally released at $10 per issue, $100 to subscribers, the entire contents of the e-zine have now been re-typeset for easy reading and compiled into one PDF volume at a significantly reduced price.

More than 250 fully illustrated pages, plus a complete index and extensive table...

This house organ ran from May 1919 until February 1940. Each issue had 8 pages and was mostly filled with ads for items Hutchinson retailed. However most issues also included a trick contribution or effect (see below for the list of contents). The most interesting contribution is Graham Adams' Card Work, a series of his favorite effects, moves and in particular his take and fondness of Erdnase.

• Volume 1
  • The Evolution of the Flags / Wilford Hutchinson
  • The "C.H." Sympathetic Blocks / Cecil Heygate
  • The Mysterious Glass Frames (stage illusion) / B. Wayre
  • The "Flu" Trick / Jas. H. Smith (The Naval...

This magic news sheet only saw two issues, March 15th and March 29th, 1924. It was published by George Johnson and the editor was Wilfrid G. Jonson.

March 15th, 1924:

• The First Appearance
• "Riffles"
• Bosco?
• On the Road / Lawrence Glen
• Maskelyne's Mysteries
• What's On?
• The Spelling Bee / Wilfred G. Jonson
• A Mysterious Card Release / J. Whitehead
• The Magic Circle

• Clairvoyance and Conjuring
• Carl Hertz
• Conjuring and the Kinema
• The Curse of Originality
• The Magician
• "Riffles"
• The Acrobatic Card / George Joyce
• The Dyeing Handkerchiefs
• Side Shows of the Past / George Johnson ...

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 1 - bound volume cover and Index
4. Index

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 1, Number 1 - October, 1914 - 32 pages
1. Contents
2. To My Brother Magicians all over the World - Will Goldston
   • A Word of Welcome - Louis Hoffmann
3. Patter for the Turban Trick - Wolfe Clyne
4. News Notes and Notices
6. Arthur Price speaks on Ventriloquism
8. My Tricks and how to Work Them - Stanley Collins
   • The Stanley Collins Four Ace Experiment
10. Our Views
    10. Success or Failure
    10. One of the Best - re: Stanley Collins
        12. Illuminated Address presented to Stanley...

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 2 - bound volume cover and Index
4. Index

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 2, Number 1 - April, 1915 - 32 pages
1. Contents
3. Our Views
   • The Second Volume
5. News Notes and Notices
7. De Biere's Appearing Billiard Ball
8. The Cubitt Section
   • Hop, Skip and Jump
11. The Malcolm-Movas Section
    • The Dematerialisation of a Ghost
13. Magical Mems - Professor Hoffmann
    • The Elusive Card
15. Stage Sketching - Eric Stone
    • part II
16. My Tricks and how to Work Them - Stanley Collins
    • Improved Penetrating Card Effect
18. Gautier's Astral...

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 3 - bound volume cover and Index
4. Index

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 3, Number 1 - October, 1915 - 32 pages
1. Contents
3. Our Views
   • The Second Year
4. cartoon - Gordon Freeman
5. News Notes and Notices
7. The Theodore Bamberg Section - A Chinese Wonder
   • The Production of a Marble Pedestal and Fire Bowl
11. Tricks, Tips and Talk - Contributed by "Alba", Woolf-Clyne, "Welshneck", E. E. Smith, Harry Exley
    11. Billiard Ball Squeezed from Thumb
    11. The Famous Drum Head Tube - Patter - Woolf-Clyne
    11. The Double Dissecting Boxes - "Welshneck" ...

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 4 - bound volume cover and Index
4. Index

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 4, Number 1 - June, 1916 - 16 pages
1. Contents
3. Our Views
4. Interview and Photograph - Theo. Bamberg
5. News Notes and Notices
6. Magicians of the Past
   • No. 6 - Alexander Herrmann
7. Tricks, Tips and Talk - Contributed by Chris Van Bern, Gordon Freeman, Stanley Collins, E. B. Cole, "Alba", Prof. Hoffman, Theo. Bamberg, B. B. Low
   7. The Ever-Full Glass of Wine - Invented by Chris Van Bern
   7. The "Freeman: Smoke Vase
   8. The Famous Vanishing Cage Trick - Patter
   8. Cravat to Sailor's...

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 5 - bound volume cover and Index
4. Index

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 5, Number 1 - December, 1916 - 16 pages
1. Contents
2. Magical Questions & Answers - A. Ainslie
3. Our Views
   • The Christmas Wishes
4. Cartoon - "Carlton" Taking a Call - Will Scott
5. News Notes and Notices
6. Tricks, Tips and Talk - Contributed by "Welshneck", E. E. Smith, Will Golston
   6. The New Production Chimneys - "Welshneck"
   7. The New Dove Pan - E. E. Smith
8. New Patter for Popular Tricks
   8. Bundle of Wood from hat
   8. Reticules from hat
   8. Balls from hat
   8. Baby from...

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 6 - bound volume cover and Index
4. Index

97. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 6, Number 1 - June, 1917 - 16 pages
97. Contents
98. For the Soldiers - An Appeal by Will Goldston
99. Our Views
    • The Old Order Changeth
100. Correspondence
     • from Hugh Herring
     • from G. Clayton
101. News Notes and Notices
102. The Perpetual Almanac
103. The Dissolving Cigar and Glass
104. My Magical Pupils - Will Goldston
106. Tricks, Tips and Talk - Contributed by C. Thompson, Anon., Will Goldston
     106. The New Four Ace Trick
     106. Telescopic Flag Rod
     107. The Tweezers Trick
     108. Humour as an Aid to...

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 7 - bound volume cover and Index
4. Index

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 7, Number 1 - December, 1919 - 24 pages
1. Contents
3. Our Views
   • Magic Must Flourish Again
4. Will Goldston's More Exclusive Magical Secrets
5. Welcome!
6. Recent Publications - Geoffrey Clayton
   • More Miscellaneous Magic - Percy Naldrett
   • Original Mysteries for Magicians - Brunel White
7. News Notes and Notices
8. Back to Life - Guy K. Austin
9. Tricks, Tips and Talk - Contributed by Arthur Ainslie, "Delveen", "Karnack", G. W. Hunter, "Yettmah", Will Goldston
   9. The New Bangle Trick ...

148 pages

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 8 - bound volume cover and Index
4. Index

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 8, Number 1 - October, 1920 - 24 pages
1. Contents
3. Our Views
   • The Coming Season
4. Oswald Williams - article & photograph
5. News Notes and Notices
6. The Magicians' Club
   • Opening Night of the Season
   • New Members
7. Mediums and Magic - Harry Price
9. Tricks, Tips & Talk
   9. The Newest Rising Cards - Invented by Will Goldston
   9. Silver from Copper
   10. Which Pencil is in the Box? - Charles W. Seers
   10. The Alan Adair Billiard Ball Stand
   11. The Mysterious Lemon -...

144 pages

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 9 - bound volume cover and Index
4. Index

1. The Magazine of Magic - Volume 9, Number 1 - April, 1921 - 20 pages
1. Contents
2. Dr. "S."A.M. Wilson Objects!
2. Cartoon - A. M. Wilson in Magic World
3. Our Views
   • Magical Depots
4. The Great Maurice [with photograph]
5. News Notes and Notices
6. The Magicians' Club
   • Magicians' Club Dinner to Compeer and Mrs. H. Rea Fitch
   • Our Welcome by the Magicians' Club
   • Who? - Mr. & Mrs. H. Rea Fitch
8. Accepted for Review - Geoffrey Clayton
   • The Magic Art - Donald Holmes
8. Herbert Brooks Retires from Magic
8. American...